Colourful Kick Off for Chinese New Year Celebrations in Southampton
Saturday 2nd February 2019 was a cold, sunny day in Southampton. Perfect weather to kick off Chinese New Year Celebrations on the South Coast. Members of the UK Shaolin [...]
Chinese New Year Rehearsals – Kung Fu Performance
Rehearsals for the 2019 Chinese New Year Extravaganca in Southampton's Guildhall Square have begun. The UK Shaolin Temple, who is the official event organiser have chosen Kung Fu and Tai Chi performance routines, performers and [...]
Meditation and Mindfulness workshop in Solent University
Shifu Shi Yan Ming and his disciple Martine Niven visited Solent University to give a lecture and workshop in Meditation and Mindfulness. 13 participants found their way into the Spark, The Pod, Southampton Solent University. [...]
Collaboration with Solent University
We are thrilled to announce UK Shaolin Temple’s formal collaboration with Solent University based in Southampton, an industry focused University with a strong reputation for sports, maritime, business and creative industries. Solent and UK Shaolin [...]
Opportunity China summer workshop
Over the summer holidays the UK Shaolin Temple partnered with Opportunity China. Opportunity China offers an array of events including University visits, specialist webinars, online workshops, and pre-departure training events for teachers heading to China. [...]
Lion Dance for a Charity Fundraising
UK Shaolin Temple performed at a charity fundraiser today for the Pink Champagne Breast Cancer Awareness Charity. Their event was held in beautiful Hengistbury Head. The lion dance included a Xing Long ceremony, which animates [...]
Chan and the Art of Cleaning – Why we clean after every class in our temple
At the end of each session your Shifu/Teacher will ask you to, collectively as a group, clean your training environment. This will take a few minutes at the end of each session. You may be [...]
Annual UK Shaolin Temple Summer Camp is back
The UK Shaolin Temple is very excited to announce that this year's annual Summer Camp will be in cooperation with Solent University Southampton. Shifu Shi Yanmin and his disciple Shifu Chen [...]
Tai Chi students complete their first form
We are very excited that four of our Tai Chi members have passed their first form. For one and half years they have been working extremely hard on remembering [...]
UK Shaolin Temple Has Reached More Than 80,000 Individuals and Communities
UK Shaolin Temple has reached more than 80,000 individuals and communities in the south west of the UK during 2018 alone. We have smashed our social media targets by gaining over 500,000 followers from organic [...]
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of Great Aspiration, is one of the most well-known Bodhisattva in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism. He is also known as Di Zhang Wang Pusa in Chinese and commonly translated as Earth Treasury," [...]
World Tai Chi and Qi Gong Day Celebrations
Last Saturday the UK Shaolin Temple had more than one reason to celebrate. One was in honour of the world's Tai Chi and Qi Gong Day. The temple invited all it's members and the public [...]
Chinese Martial Arts
Chinese martial arts, often named under the umbrella terms kung fu (Chinese: 功夫; pinyin: gōng fu) and wushu (武术), are the several hundred fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China. These fighting [...]
Wushu
Wushu is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was developed in China after 1949, in an effort to standardize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts, although [...]
Sanshou
Sanda or Sanshou is a Chinese self-defense system and combat sport. Sanshou is a martial art which was originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the study and practices of traditional Kung fu and [...]
