Wing Chun Kung Fu Chen Taijiquan Hard Qigong Feng Shui
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Study with one of the most renowned teachers in the world. The courses are open to beginners and more experienced practitioners alike as Grandmaster Chen’s teaching and knowledge makes the skill accessible to everyone. 1/2 Nov 6-9pm - Chen Taiji Sword Learn how to apply the principles of Taiji to this elegant weapon. Practise improves your coordination and energy. 3 Nov 11-3pm / 4 Nov 12-4pm Chen 38 Short From An excellent form for beginners and senior students of Taijiquan. It encompasses all the principles and flavour of the long forms but is easier learn and practise. 5 Nov 12-4pm - Taiji Applications & Self Defense Chen Taijiquan is famous as a martial art. Learn how to apply the form to defend yourself. Cover: Guan Yu (Guan Gong) Qi Magazine is published by the Tse Qigong Centre. ujia (Confucianism) is a very good This time we are going to look at Its aim is to bring you information not readily system of education. I would the relationship of Brothers and Sisters. available in the West. Rrecommend that everyone read The Chinese say, “Brothers and sisters Editor: Michael Tse and follow it. Today’s world is quite are like arms and legs.” This is very true. Deputy Editor: Darryl Moy different from the past and so you might Today, many people have problems with find that it does not fit today’s modern their brothers and sisters. Some have Assistants: Vera Externest Martin Gale society, equal rights, freedom of speech, never talked to each other since they Caroline Garvey Sarah Moy etc. but if we look deeper and can have left home. This is like arms and legs Jane Pollard understand the wisdom of it then it can not working together, so how can we do help us to keep society more peaceful things? How can we walk? One arm Legal Adviser: Tony Walsh and in good order. Then maybe we can relates to the other arm, one leg relates Marketing/Distribution: Jessica Tse live peacefully with no more wars and to the other leg, arms and legs all relate have a good future. to the body. We are all one thing, not Consultants: Rujia teaches us about our separate. So if they can work together, Grandmaster Yang Meijun behaviour and how to behave well. If then everything will flow and they can Grandmaster Ip Chun we can behave well, then things will work achieve many things. We also say in Grandmaster Wu Chun Yuen Grandmaster ChenXiao Wang smoothly and people will respect each Chinese, “Brothers and sisters have the other. Thus, the 5 Major Relationships are same heart. It is sharp enough to cut any Columnists: very important. These are:- Boss and metal.” Which means when they are Peter Andersen Staff, Father and Son, Husband and together they can go through anything. Kate Britton Wife, Brothers and Sister and Friends. We So you may ask, “What if we Martin Gale Sihn Kei have all of these roles and sometimes cannot get along? What do we do?” This Adam Wallace we may be the boss, at other times we is the real test. Even if you do not get Julian Wilde are a member of staff. We can be the along with your brothers or sisters, you father or mother and also we are should still keep in contact with them. I Readers may contact any of our contributors c/o children. Remember the future is based have three brothers and one sister. We Qi Magazine. on us, is based on our thinking and see each other whenever we can, but We encourage all our readers to contribute articles, letters or questions for possible inclusion in future actions and so based on our hearts. How we all have different ideas of life and issuesof QiMagazine. we behave in these roles is very different beliefs. 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Advertising: Qi Magazine has proved to be an effective way of reaching a wide variety of people. All enquiries welcome. ForUKcall: 08458382285 or+44 161 9294485 Subscription: Costs per year: UK £20 inc p&p. USA $35 inc p&p Europe £25 (airmail) inc p&p. Worldwide £35 (airmail) inc p&p. For UK/Europe/Worldwide Please send payment in Pounds Sterling. Payment can be by Credit Card or Cheque, drawn on a UK bank, payable to Qi Magazine: Qi Magazine PO Box 59 Altrincham, WA15 8FS, UK Local Rate (UK only) Tel. 0845 838 2285 +44 161 929 4485 email: [email protected] http://www.qimagazine.com ISSN 1358-3778 Qi Magazine Oct/Nov/Dec 2007 page 1 1 Editorial with Michael Tse. 20 Tse Qigong Centre Summer Residential Courses 2007 4 PO Box Images and comments on this year’s courses. 10 Jaded by not Jurassic 22 Five Element Poem We all grow old, whether we like it or not. Today there are By Matt Laurie more older people in society and so how we deal with the aging process is very important. 23 Food Cures: Body Types By Julian Wilde Certain foods have certain healing properties. As with any form of treatment, the treatment needs to be tailored to the 12 Matter of Trust individual person. This means you need to know what body At some point in our lives we need to place our trust in type you are. other people, circumstance or events. However, often we By Jessica Tse neglect trusting ourselves and this can stop us developing and growing. 24 Golden Mountain Living Buddha – Part 4 By Sihnkei Continuing the amazing stories about the high level monk. By Michael Tse 13 Hard Qigong Experience How does it feel to train in Hard Qigong and to develop a 26 Escaping Qin Na good level? Along the way there are many trails and Qin Na is the art of grasping and controlling. Most of the tribulations to overcome and these are sometimes the time we think of how to apply the lock and holds. However, biggest tests. this time we look at how to escape and reverse them. By Adam Wallace By Darryl Moy 15 Practicalities of Pinyin Pinyin is the official system of writing Chinese in the western ...Cover Story... Cover Story...Cover Story... Cover Story alphabet. Though the letters might be familiar, their pronunciation can take some getting used to. By Peter Andersen 28 The Unbreakable Loyalty of Liu 16 Tuina Massage Bei, Guan Yu & Zhang Fei Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are TCM has many branches. Yet like a tree, they all have the revered by all Chinese people even same root. Tuina is the Chinese system of massage and though they lived two thousand like all Chinese medicine works on clearing and years ago. Guan Yu in particular, is strengthening the Qi. held as a heroic figure throughout By Kate Britton the generations and even has 18 Amazing Water temples dedicated to him in China. Why are Guan Yuand his “brothers” We all know that water is vital for our survival. In fact we so highly respected? are about 60 percent water. This being the case there By Michael Tse must be something more to this clear liquid than meets the eye. By Jessica Tse ...Cover Story... Cover Story...Cover Story... Cover Story page 2 Qi Magazine Oct/Nov/Dec 2007 41 Liao Fans’s Four Lesson – The Third Lesson How to recognise real goodness and false goodness. 32 More or Less? 42 Tsum Kiu Part V Have you ever been in a situation where the harder you The last part of Tsum Kiu – Wing Chun’s second form. try or the more you do, the worse you make things? By Michael Tse There are times when less is more and more is less. By Martin Gale 46 Zhong Qi Gou – Basic Dao (Broadsword) The final ten movements in this basic broadsword form. 33 The Donkey Exhausts its Tricks An old Chinese story about fear of the unknown. 49 Free Yourself Every martial art has it training drills. Wing Chun is no 34 Wing Chun Story Part 9 exception. However there comes a time when you have to Having been saved by Leung Bok Chau, Leung Lan Kwai stop following the drills as they are just tools for learning. is determined to study with him and learn his Kung Fu, By Darryl Moy but first he has to get past Leung Bok Chau’s wife. By Michael Tse 50 Feng Shui - Five Element, Bagua, Tian Guan, Di Zi There are some thing you must know and understand to be 36 Yi Jin Jing – Muscle Transforming Exercises able to study and apply Feng Shui correctly. Many of these Part 2 fundamental things come from the Yijing and all help you understand Qi.