Attributes and Mindset in FMA

Defensive and offensive techniques in Filipino martial arts revolve in a pentagonal foundation (known as MIBOME) that are interrelated and complement each other in spirit, skill, speed, strength and style, as follows:

Rodney Grantham and Aikido in America’s Southwest

Rodney Grantham (~1928-2008) played a pivotal role in the push of aikido in the American Southeast. Grantham began judo in 1950 while stationed in Yokosuka, Japan as a surgical scrub nurse during the Korean War. There, he would train judo on his off-duty hours, mostly at police stations.

Four Principles of Aikido

Aikido’s four principles form the content and the methods for which the budoka can control not only themselves, but situations outside of themselves.

Ascension and Return

This collection of heartfelt and insightful poems and a few prose poems was written over a 45-year period as the author traveled the world: from Egypt to Bali, from Thailand to Istanbul. It features the poet’s involvement with Daoist transcendent practices and earthly engagement that transforms experiences into dream-like and ecstatic meditation.

Bringing Chi Nei Tsang Organs Massage to Homonhon

We thought we could not leave because there was a typhoon in the horizon, but we took the plane from Manila to Tacloban City anyway. We were picked up at the airport and brought to Guiuan, Samar 3 hours east.

Kenpo’s Key Principles and Rules

T here is a lot of material available to those who seek to better understand American Kenpo Karate. There are new self-defense techniques, different applications of the present material or definitions, books, videos and online sites devoted to Kenpo terminology, concepts and theories. However, no one has written on what defines American Kenpo Karate.

Opening the Body to Nature

I have often done qigong and Tai chi chuan in power vortices – in the pyramids at Gisa and the temples in Upper Egypt (Karnak, Dendera, Abydos), in the Tor on Glastonbury and the Stonehenge in England, in the peaks of Huangshan in China, in the stone circles of Scotland, Iao Valley in Maui, Hawaii, and Mount Banahaw in the Philippines.

Use NLP to Obliterate Negative Thoughts, Feelings

Have you ever been in a situation where you felt worried, anxious or fearful — and completely powerless? If you cannot change the past, and believe you can’t change the present or future, you dwell on the past, fear your current situation, and feel anxious the future.

Indie Flick “Made in Chinatown” Features Top Talent

What happens when a Chinese guy tries to join the Italian MOB? This is the premise examined by Mark Wiley in his new film, Made in Chinatown. It’s a unique fish-out-of-water comedy-of-manners that looks at what it means to be an American in the 21st century.

Don’t Believe These Headache Myths!

by Dr. Mark Wiley Chronic headaches and migraines are horrible. When it comes to planning to relieve and prevent them that works, and sticking with it,…