Blue Lotus Tai Chi

05/10/2025

Sunday Shala 🪔

Nobody came to meet me
With a lantern,
Had to find my way up
The steps by weak moonlight
And there he was, under
The green lamp, and
With a corpse’s smile
He whispered, ‘Your voice
Is strange, Cinderella...’
Fire dying in the hearth,
Cricket chirping, Ah!
Someone’s taken my shoe
As a souvenir, and with
Lowered eyes given me
Three carnations.
Dear mementoes,
Where can I hide you?
And it’s a bitter thought
That my little white shoe
Will be tried by everyone.

~ Anna Akhmatova

04/10/2025

For fans of Lou Reed and Chen Style Tai Chi. 😃❤️

Final Weapon is a dramatic long-form music video about an ancient martial art that when employed, renders the user invincible for 20 minutes before expiring....

04/10/2025

Definitely Scarf Weather 🧣😃

28th May 2020 Articles Chinese Dance: The Art of Chinese Scarf and Silk Dance Goldsmiths Confucius Institute dancers perform a Chinese ribbon dance peice Chinese scarf and silk dance (巾舞 Jīn wǔ) refers to a dance where the practitioner holds a scarf or silks and is one of the unique creative a...

02/10/2025

Mathew’s Throwback Thursday 🪃

More about dowsing from the 80s magazine 'The Unexplained'.

01/10/2025

Night Thoughts 🌙

Meet me in the moonlight,
and I will teach you about
the strength you can only
find in the dark.

~ A. Marie

01/10/2025

Combatting SAD ❄️

Whilst this really is my time of year I know many that struggle, so a little timely advice via TCM.

Blessings 🙂

Mathew

https://healingpoints-acu.com/5-astounding-tcm-remedies-to-beat-seasonal-affective-disorder/?srsltid=AfmBOooUnfBHarmoVF7WnDhDPAdRPDsqeLHnVzyUxsBApE9dQIToTPCn

30/09/2025

"Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help."

~ Miyamoto Musashi

28/09/2025

Sunday Shala 🪔

“The lure of the unknown and the lore of hidden things have long intrigued the human mind. Along with throwing rocks and fashioning flintsone spearheads, primitive man developed more subtle crafts.”

~ Walter B. Gibson

25/09/2025

Lunar Offerings 🌙

As Lesley informed me a couple of days ago, we are well into the festival of Navarati celebrating the Goddess Durga's victory over the demon Mahishasura (classic tale of good vanquishing evil).
So I figure a little puja is in order to say thanks, especially as I have an old lithograph of Kali (an aspect of Durga) in the house. It was also a great excuse to try out my new natural patchouli incense I picked up from Lauren at ‘The Enchanted Moon’, a little extra in price but really thick and aromatic, when it comes to incense you definitely get what you pay for.
If you’re ever in Ashton town centre it’s always worth popping in, and these days she’s even managing to run workshops and private tarot readings (Thursday afternoons).

Thymiama Blessings 😃

Mathew

25/09/2025

Mathew’s Throwback Thursday 🪃

A shift from the martial for a few weeks to look at the art of dowsing. From 'The Unexplained' magazine series which ran throughout the 80s.

23/09/2025

🌕☀️

“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”

~ J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings

22/09/2025

The trees are about to show us how beautiful it is to let go.🍂🍂🍂

22/12/2024

All Classes are closed for the holidays. We reopen from 6th Jan '25. For the Billinge class this means a return date of Wed 8th Jan at 1.30 - 3pm. All classes are £8.00 per 90 min session.