Category: News

ANZAC DAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY

The academy will be closed for the Anzac Day public holiday on THURSDAY 25th April 2024. All classes will resume as per our regular time table on Saturday 27th April 2024. If this is your regular weekly class, please feel welcome to make this class up at a time that is best suitable for you. LEST WE FORGET! […]

AUTUMN HEALTH

An important time to be mindful of your health! By Emma Suttie, D.Ac Autumn is the season where the hot summer days gradually become shorter, and the leaves begin to change, presenting us with their beautiful colours before they fall off the trees to prepare for the coming winter. There is a cold in the […]

ACADEMY BUILDING REPAIRS

Hi students & parents, I hope you are all well. I have an important update to share with you all regarding the upcoming school holidays and impending building works to the academy. For over 10 year we have endured a multitude of ongoing building issue, especially the constant roof leakage. With the new owners taking over […]

MEDITATION, QI GONG AND TAI CHI PROGRAM AT SHMA RELAUNCHING

We are excited to be relaunching our Meditation, Qi Gong and Tai Chi program and welcoming it to our 2022 timetable as a regular class on Monday nights starting from Monday May 2nd between 7.15pm – 8.15pm. Shifu will be sharing his knowledge, practise, and experience of the internal arts from over the past 26 […]

SHMA’S SUBSCRIPTION BASED ONLINE TRAINING

Have you taken a moment to check out our online classes yet? We currently have a library of nearly 60 classes available for you to choose from, ranging across our entire SHMA programs for Adults, Jnr Adults and Kids. You’ll find technique classes, forms classes both empty hand and weapons classes, Shifu’s training tips, Self Defence classes, […]

THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS – WHEN THE BALANCE HAS SHIFTED

“When the balance has shifted” Words of Wisdom from “Ram Dass” If we can imagine a wheel whose rim is the cycle of births and deaths, all of the “stuff” of life, conditioned reality, and whose centre is perfect flow, formless no-mind, the source, we’ve got one foot with most of our weight on the […]

THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS – ALLOW, ACCEPT & RECEIVE

“Allow, Accept & Receive” Upon hearing these three charming words in a recent yoga class, I wanted to reflect a little more on these words and ask myself a question. How can we include these words into our daily practice? How can we ‘allow, accept & receive’ in more areas of our lives? If we […]

WE ARMOUR HEARTS WITH OUR MINDS

What beautiful words! After listening to a recent podcast from Ram Dass, he mentioned those words in a conversation and it really caught my attention. So much so that I instantly wrote it down and wanted to explore it from a deeper place of silence as I believe that the majority of us at some […]