Your basket is currently empty!
Tag: Reading Room
-
A Useful Relaxation technique
The following was initially published by Health Promotion England in their “The Health Guide”: Learn to recognise when your muscles are tensed – this is a sign of stress. This simple breathing exercise may help you to combat stressful moments in your life: Calm, controlled breathing helps to release muscular tension and relieve stress. Adopt…
-
Investigating muscle types
Muscle types There are three general categories of muscle within the body: Cardiac – (involuntary) forms the walls of the heart and pumps blood around the circulatory system Smooth (involuntary) – found in the walls of hollow structures e.g. blood vessels Skeletal (voluntary) – attached to bone This article is concerned with muscle that we…
-
Wing Chun Poem – written by Master Ip Chun
In July 1999 Master Ip Chun visited the UK to give a series of seminars for his most senior Western student Sifu Shaun Rawcliffe. As part of the Midlands Wing Chun Kuen the Cheltenham branch was once again privileged to be able to host one of these seminars. In actual fact, this was the 5th…
-
Proprioception – The Sixth Sense
Most people are familiar with the 5 senses: Hearing, Sight, Smell, Taste and Touch and their importance to us daily. It is possible to live without one or two of these but it does make life a little more difficult. During the middle of the last Century Neurophysiologists added a ‘Sixth Sense’ to the list…
