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Releasing Energy

Steve Rowe

Understand how the body naturally builds up and releases energy and you understand how to use it in qigong and Tai Chi. This also applies to the internal energy in all martial art technique. Your morning stretch is different to your exercise stretches. This is because you build up your energy in your stretch and then release it to wake up. Notice the feeling that goes with the release. You do the same when you sneeze, yawn, when you go to the loo, when you ejaculate and even when dealing with emotion and pain. Understand this and you go a … Continue reading Releasing Energy

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Keys To Success

Steve Rowe

Keys to success in training: Work out what you genuinely want to achieve from your study and periodically review it.Don’t take on aims and objectives that others give you.Plan your training schedule for the optimum way to achieve those aims.Don’t waste time training in anything that doesn’t take you in the right direction.Never over or under train.Train every day. Sounds easy but you will inevitably have to fight against pressure from others who want you to do what they want, both at home and in the Dojo. You will also have to deal with your enemies of laziness, distraction and … Continue reading Keys To Success

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Don’t Be Diverted

Steve Rowe

If people knew the power they had, the world would be a far better place. Instead like lemmings we allow our minds and emotions to be diverted by those who currently hold power at our behest. Separate the masses and turn them on each other and they never look at the manipulators, the gaslighters and greedy narcissists. We used to say that if the information was available that people would become self educated and work together to make the world a better, compassionate and kinder environment. When that happened with the advent of the internet, we were diverted and turned … Continue reading Don’t Be Diverted

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Soft Front, Strong Back Reviews

Steve Rowe

3 BOOK REVIEWS- When we published this book I bought 300 to do as signed copies and have a few spare as gifts etc but surprisingly, nearly all have gone, so if you are in the U.K. and want one of the remaining copies, order it here on this link https://py.pl/1m5JAm Here are a couple of reviews you might find interesting….. Francis Briers – I got my copy of my long time teacher, Steve Rowe’s book and have started to read it today. What strikes me is how vulnerable Steve has been in writing honestly about himself and his life. … Continue reading Soft Front, Strong Back Reviews

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Sharing Is Caring

Steve Rowe

In the 80’s I was an Operations Manager in a security company with around 500 staff in all manner of contracts. Often at night I’d drive around the sites to visit our guards who were on minimum pay and 12hr shifts on various duties, many were Indian and Pakistani. They would always insist on sharing their meagre rations that they’d bought in to last the shift and would be very offended if I refused. In the beginning I felt embarrassed and tried to refuse but soon realised how important it was to them to share. Food is the staff of … Continue reading Sharing Is Caring

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I Never Wanted To Be Here

Steve Rowe

I never wanted to be here…..My body, thoughts and emotions just never ‘fitted’;I was never happy;As I child I didn’t fit in with my family,Always wondering what the hell I was doing here;Everything was clumsy and wrong;I certainly didn’t fit into school and never got along with teachers or education;Seen as a ‘rebel’ it wasn’t intentional I was dysfunctional according to the social norms;I ran with the other ‘rebels’ because there was nothing else to do but even that wasn’t me;I didn’t love or hate I was simply in the wrong place. I was drawn to oriental philosophy because it … Continue reading I Never Wanted To Be Here

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Earth Is A Prison!

Steve Rowe

Earth Is A Prison! You die into your meat carcass to serve your sentence of unavoidable suffering,And are born out of it on your release. Gradually rotting, consumed with desire to want or not want things.You can serve your sentence badly by hurting yourself and others with your wants. By believing the indoctrination of the prison cult,Or you can see it for what it really is,You rehabilitate yourself by accepting the sentence,Understand that it’s the carcass that has all these desires. Not suffering about your suffering,Not being angry about your anger,Not being emotional about your emotions. Remember that you are … Continue reading Earth Is A Prison!

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Waiting For God

Steve Rowe

Waiting For God I feel you looking out of my eyes,Listening through my ears,Tasting with my tongue,Smelling through my nose. But this vehicle won’t pass another MOT,The joints are rusty,Tissue is infected,It can barely run,It’s about ready for the knackers fire. It was elegant,A pleasure to drive,Would accelerate rapidly,Stop and turn on a sixpence,A reminder of classic times. Your consciousness permeates every cell,Always aware and alive,Observing yourself,When the body transmutes,The shape changes But consciousness is immortal. Continue reading Waiting For God

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Shamanism In Tai Chi

Steve Rowe

Shamanism in Tai Chi. We focus mainly on the snake, crane and tiger, these 3 animals are within every technique in a variety of ways. Snake is bound to the earth, our primalenergies and reptilian brain. It represents our qi energy, the way we move against the earth, the way we ‘coil’ bonelessly in movement, wrap around the opponent and escape grips and holds. It also represents the ‘spit’ and venom of a sudden attack. Tiger represents our mammalian energies, our powerful intention, qi projection, bone, tendon and muscular power, our structural integrity in framing our body, tearing techniques and … Continue reading Shamanism In Tai Chi