What do you spend most of the day thinking about? How mindful are you of your thoughts and feelings and how much do you think they effect your day in terms or your state of relaxation within your posture and movements? Wing Chun Kung Fu, when studied as a internal martial art, requires the mindful …
Einstein said “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” Perhaps we should “Imagine” more in our Wing Chun. The human brain is what neurologists call a “level 3” of Conscienceness , it has the ability to imagine scenarios and play them out, unlike any other animal. In fact it is for this …
Lets take an artist as an example. An artist expresses a feeling, they become totally absorbed into their work, they have no desire or judgment, they simple paint and express. Some of the greatest artists expressed themselves in ways that were completely out of the mindset of the era at the time. To accomplish this …
There is an argument in Physics about whether our lives are “Pre-determined” or are they subject to “Chaos” and the “Incompleteness” Theorem’s. What’s interesting about all this, is that what we are experiencing in our everyday Wing Chun is actually a hot debate in quantum physics. The “Pre-determined’s” argue that everything is pre- organized. In …
There is more to just seeing with our eyes! Most in fact of what we comprehend comes through the other senses long before we even see it!!! So what does this imply??? That I need to develop the whole of myself, all of my senses in order to see, feel and experience myself as a …
When we are unaware in our bodies, when we are not connected to the feelings of our body (through the mind and senses) then it is easy for tension and stress to enter. The reason is that tension has become our default setting! The body must respond with tension (tension through muscular force) because if …
Learning Wing Chun in Hong Kong is amazing! I first started Wing Chun in 2008, back then I was working as barista at a coffee shop. One day, Nima came up to me at Uncle Russ (the coffee shop I worked at) and said that he was opening a Wing Chun school close by and …
There is a medium of everything in accordance to gravity; a center, and where the center lays you will also find the balance! We are, practitioners at Mindful Wing Chun Hong Kong in search of this center in all the movements we do. Through teaching and practicing Wing Chun Kung Fu we find that without …
