Jewelled Heart School of Resilience

17/03/2026

03/09/2024

Viciously struck by lightning a few years back, now they are blooming. As part of nature, we humans can draw inspiration from this natural phenomenon.

11/06/2024

Rituals of rooting and reflection on Abate Farm, in Pretoria North, on the South African National Day.

11/06/2024

Chen Tai Chi Chuan short form as the means.

07/10/2018

An invitation to an immersive week of bodily energy cultivation.

06/07/2018

Sometime in 2007 at the Jing-An (Place of Serenity) studio in Cape Town. Out of shape, overweight, owing to lack of exercise, a relatively poor diet and consumption in employed work. Despite all I am able to somehow, in puddles of sweat, finish a gruelling training session under the tutelage of Dr Michael Lan. I was lifted by a strange sense of the sacred and the elevated in the studio and the rituals of our practices.

26/04/2018

Tasty and diverse Chinese cuisine slowly but surely becoming part of South African food culture.

26/04/2018

Shaolin Chan Wu core pugilists in Pretoria, with Master Qin. Discussions were on founding martial education as a component of individual and community resilience programmes in Pretoria. This just as a start!

06/11/2017

Water Body Practice of Red & Black Dragon Boxing.

06/11/2017

The intiation of the probationary class into the White Sash/Foundational Training Programme of the Shaolin Chan Wu Hall at the Pretoria Chinese School.