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Don’t Stop Because Of Stress

Steve Rowe

What’s the most stupid statement you repeatedly hear as a martial arts teacher? “I’m not training because I’m under a lot of stress at work or at home” or “Johnny has to stop training because he has to study for his exams at school”. It makes about as much sense as “I’m going to stop paying my house insurance because it’s at more risk of catching fire at the moment”. When you’re working or studying hard is the most important time to reduce stress by training, it keeps both mind and body fresh. Taking breaks and training is the most … Continue reading Don’t Stop Because Of Stress

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Highly Driven People

Steve Rowe

High energy and highly driven people need discipline and guidance. They are unable to understand people with low drives who find their energy obnoxious and you can see it everywhere in relationships generally and on social media. High energy and highly driven people need an incredible amount of constant discipline to channel themselves to do positive things and to hide and temper their energy levels. On the negative side when their drives are left unattended they are subject to fiery emotions including anger, addictions and attractions, these put an unreal veil over everything they think see and feel, their desires … Continue reading Highly Driven People

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Loneliness

Steve Rowe

Some people see everything differentThey can’t understand why others can’t see the sameOthers can’t understand why they are the way they areLike oil and water they can’t mixIt’s a lonely place when everyone misunderstandsWhen they don’t talkWhen they’re just being themselvesOthers think they’re being awkwardThe truth is they’re born that wayThey can’t help itThey don’t mean itThey can’t be differentThey just need toleranceUnderstandingCommon groundThis is the role martial arts can playIt’s called inclusion. Continue reading Loneliness

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There Is No ‘Us & Them’

Steve Rowe

There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’. Because we have tribal origins it’s easy for people to be divided, fear, anger and hate engendered and we then don’t see those pulling the strings. We have the power at the polls, but even then we’re asked to vote for one party against another and most voters don’t even know the policies that they’re voting for, they’re just voting out of fear and tribalism. We should have grown out of the man made divisions of ‘them and us’, the illusions of boundaries, countries, religions and cultures, we should not see differences but that … Continue reading There Is No ‘Us & Them’

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How Deep Can You Go?

Steve Rowe

How deep can you train your body? How well can you manipulate the spine and myofascial core that moves it along with the vagus nerve? This, along with plumbing beyond thought and emotions to finding the deepest parts of yourself that connect you to nature are what give you a health and inner peace beyond what any modern ‘health guru’ can. Good Tai Chi, layered from meditation to neigong (inner work) to qigong (energy work) to form, push hands and weapons carefully layers these skills, training body, emotions and mind at depths that I don’t see anywhere else. It was … Continue reading How Deep Can You Go?

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Closing All The Windows

Steve Rowe

Closing All The Windows The computer was designed by and is like the human mind. When you close all the active windows, what’s left? It appears to be nothing, a blank screen, but it’s actually the potential to do anything the computer or its programmer can do. When we sit still, breathe deep and close all the activity of our mind, the mind appears to be inactive but is in fact in a state of readiness to accept the insight and wisdom that our ‘windows’ (thinking mind) has been blocking that has always been there in the background. Closing the … Continue reading Closing All The Windows

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The True Meaning Of Karma

Steve Rowe

Our oligarchs and their puppet politicians are telling us that the only way out of the ‘predicament’ that they have put us in, (where they have multiplied their personal wealth and multiplied the poverty of the masses as a natural balance) is to treat us as ‘straw dogs’, to tighten our belts, work harder and create more wealth for them to the cost of our peace, happiness and the environment. Lao Tsu wrote “the space between heaven and earth is like a bellows, the shape changes but not the form. The more it moves, the more it yields.” When they … Continue reading The True Meaning Of Karma

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I Am Beautiful

Steve Rowe

I am beautiful. That’s not a ‘guru’ style bogus affirmation, at 74, with a barrel rather than a 6 pack, riddled with arthritis, a missing leg, more wrinkles than a crumpled crisp packet and more scars than a Russian gangster my body is my best friend and a record of an exciting life. I am beautiful. Because despite its battering my body is suffused with chi (life energy), alchemised and educated into geng (warrior energy) and then shen (spiritual energy) by trained emotions and a mind that has trained and meditated twice a day for over 50 years. I am … Continue reading I Am Beautiful

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2026 Shi Kon Tai Chi Coaching Programme

Steve Rowe

No Previous Experience Necessary.This one day a month for 10 months programme will be taught personally by Steve Rowe 9th Dan and his team of assistants, Steve is an internationally renowned Tai Chi teacher, Chairman and founder of Shi Kon Martial Arts International.  The programme has been running for 9 years and has qualified over a 100 coaches, it is designed to certificate and give Tai Chi Students the ability to teach Tai Chi and run and administer a club to a basic level standard. Participants will be registered with Shi Kon Martial Arts International Association and the British Council … Continue reading 2026 Shi Kon Tai Chi Coaching Programme

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The Missing Leg

Steve Rowe

Sat in the consultants office.The leg is infected, hot, red and swollen. The metal prosthetic rod that ran through the entire leg had now broken through the shin bone. It was a mess. “Go home, dial 999, it has to be amputated within 24 hours or you will die. It was 2021 in the middle of Covid, I was blue lighted into a hospital in chaos. By that point I’d had over 20 surgeries on my legs, 3 sepsis infections, 3 knee replacements in that leg including an antibiotic spacer, lost all my quadricep muscles on both legs, eventually having … Continue reading The Missing Leg