Month: August 2026

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What Is Peng?

Steve Rowe

Peng is like a jigsaw, it can only exist if certain things are in place. They are: A permanent connection to the feet, driving the waist and out the arms to the hands. The 3 bows (arms, legs and spine) with the body weight either resting in them (yin) or actively bowing and releasing energy (yang). Structural alignment with no protrusions, collapses or leaning. An animated body with every cavity, every bit of tissue, every joint and any other space in the body filled with animated energy. A mind that is aware, focused, sensitive and intense. If any of these … Continue reading What Is Peng?

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What Is Peng?

Steve Rowe

Peng is like a jigsaw, it can only exist if certain things are in place. They are: A permanent connection to the feet, driving the waist and out the arms to the hands. The 3 bows (arms, legs and spine) with the body weight either resting in them (yin) or actively bowing and releasing energy (yang). Structural alignment with no protrusions, collapses or leaning. An animated body with every cavity, every bit of tissue, every joint and any other space in the body filled with animated energy. A mind that is aware, focused, sensitive and intense. If any of these … Continue reading What Is Peng?

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One Foot In Death

Steve Rowe

Blood, Sweat and TearsContemplating deathWalking with one foot in life and one in deathGiving a perspective others don’t haveThen in meditation and trainingMoving both feet into deathWith just a little toe left in lifeWhen you’re as familiar with death as lifeYou lose fearYou gain that broader perspectiveFinding your immortalityYou gain balanceFinding the line between yin and yangThe middle path, the TaoThe way of the warriorPiercing the veil of illusionRealising that what you were before you were born,What you are when you’re deadYou still are nowWatching the theatre of lifeNot happy or unhappyBut peacefulThose that opt for an ‘easy life’Missed the … Continue reading One Foot In Death

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Why Basics?

Steve Rowe

Why basics?Because everything you need to knowEven for the most advanced trainingIs in thereA good teacher will apply layer after layerInto the same basic exercises and techniques firstBecause it’s the most efficient way of learningThe layers are not held backThey can only be taughtWhen the student is readyThen they will exclaim“It were there all the time…I just didn’t see it!” Continue reading Why Basics?

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The Way Of Zen

Steve Rowe

The Way Of Zen The Samurai warrior would get up every day and say “today is a good day to d.i.e.” He would make sure that all his affairs were in order so that his passing wouldn’t be a burden to others. He would then savour every remaining moment and every remaining breath. Pure Zen. I’ve always lived to these ideasI’ve made a willLived frugallyPaid for my cremationLeft all the important information in a bookI have no debtMy dojo and flat are paid for, fully repaired and decoratedI’ve written all the books on my life, meditations and teachingsCompleted all the … Continue reading The Way Of Zen