Hongzheng Hotel Shiyan
No.18 Jiangsu Road, Maojian District Shiyan, Hubei, China
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Embracing The Universe
... as it seems.
With our evening planned and most of us satisfied with the amount of exploring that we’d done, when we returned to the hotel with our box of fireworks, most of us stayed put. Few were willing to go back out into the rainy streets for what they viewed as tacky tourist shops and a small Chinese town with little to offer. However, with time ticking by in our hotel room, little to do, and the realization that we’d probably never return to this spot, ...
The True East
June 22nd, Wudang Shan, China
Wonderous Wudang Shan, Falling back in Love with Asia and Adventure
Part 2 - Conquering Conformity
And so it began...
The morning after our arrival we awoke around 9AM. We were, for the most part, well rested and eager to see the incredible center of spiritual thought that we’d so anxiously awaited during our 13 hours of nearly blind travel. The previous day had been marked with ...
Wonderous Wudang Shan - The Journey
June 21sd, Wudang Shan, China
Wonderous Wudang Shan, Falling back in Love With Asia and Adventure
Part 1 - The Journey
The reaper has breathed down my neck, I have stared into the face of mortality, and I am one of the lucky few to walk away with words that shall never capture the intensity.
I can’t start with that though I’m afraid, can’t open with what, only a few moments ago, encased my entire body. The adrenaline is ...
Arriving in Wudangshan
... program for the summer is as follows: 6:00 - 7:00: qi gong, 7:30: breakfast, 8:20 - 11:00: morning training, 12:00: lunch, 17:30: dinner, 19:00 - 21:30: evening training. Myself I decided to include my own qi gong (shiba shi and ba duan jin) and taiji (yang style 108 lineage of Yang Chen Fu) and meditation, but still have to organize myself. On Wednesday mornings there are demos to show master Yuan how you progressed with your forms or sometimes they ...
PLEASE no more steps!!!
... nothing I'd ever seen, the temple was such a magical place and so old. How they built it this far up in the mountains hundreds of years ago is beyond me. A pity that we had to share it with so many people, but I'm thinking that most magical sights in China would be the same... On a weekend anyways. Saw some proper cool looking Kung Fu dudes, I kept willing them (with my Jedi mind powers) to do some Kung Fu moves, but they just walked around gracefully... and ...


