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19 Jan 20 News & Updates

This is our final week of preparation before our Chinese new year celebrations begin. Our latest article explains some of the traditions, myths and legends surrounding the two week Spring Festival. We also have new classes beginning in Forres and updated times and info for our regular classes too.

Chinese New Year 2020

Inverness Performance Times

We now have less than a week before the beginning of the Spring Festival, commonly known as Chinese New Year. The two week festival is a busy time for kung fu schools all over the world. Yee’s Hung Ga are no different. We perform traditional lion dance displays and blessings to bring good fortune for people, businesses and organisations. You can find out what plans we have in store, plus learn about myths, legends and a Chinese/Scottish culture fusion called, “Gung Haggis Fa Choi,” plus loads more in our latest article, “Chinese New Year 20 – Year of the Rat.”

You can follow our Chinese New Year Celebration Event to keep up to date with our own celebrations here in Inverness. Our Facebook page, “Yee’s North of Scotland Lion & Dragon Dance Team,” will also give you updates on all of our performances throughout the year.

Classes

Classes begin 7th Feb at Forres Swimming Pool

In the North of Scotland, Yee’s Hung Ga has schools in the Highlands, Aberdeenshire and we are now excited to announce that we will be running classes in Morayshire too. From the 7th of February we will be be running two classes every Friday evening in Forres. There will be one class for kids aged between 8 and 12 at 7-8pm and also a class for ages 12 – adult from 8-9pm. All classes will be held in the boys gymnasium at Forres Swimming Pool. We have a page on this website just for Forres classes and we have also set up a Facebook page to share content. Please feel free to share either or both:

Forres Website Page

Forres Hung Ga Facebook Page

New members are always welcome to attend our classes in Inverness as well as Forres. Tuesday evenings at 7pm are the best classes to start off with. You can find out more information about joining on the, “How Do I Join?” page of this website.

Inverness Timetable

Private tuition classes, for the week commencing 19th-25th January, can be booked and paid for online via this website. We currently have full availability on Monday 19th plus a few other evening timeslots. Use the following calendar to pick a day and see availability.

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Highland School of Qigong

If you wish to book a private tuition slot for Qigong, you can also use the appointment calendar above to arrange a suitable time.

Highland School of Qigong

If you registered to receive our Winter Qigong Routine, this has been sent out. If you would still like to receive it, completely free, or it didn’t arrive in your inbox, you can still sign up to have it sent out to you with the link below:

The Winter Qigong Routine Workshop was also held on the 4th of January. Notes from this workshop will also be compiled and sent out shortly. This should aid practice and give you further information about the philosophy, theory and practice of our routine.

Winter Qigong Routine

We will release our Spring Qigong Routine, mid to late February, so keep an eye out for more information regarding this. If you have signed up for our Winter Qigong Routine, you will automatically be sent the Spring Routine too.

We have set up a Facebook page specifically for all our Qigong information and events. Feel free to ‘like’ this page. Any shares are also appreciated:

Highland School of Qigong

Hung Sale

Our sale continues

Despite all the Hints you dropped over Christmas, you STILL didn’t get the hoody that you really wanted. Don’t stress it! Our sale continues throughout January in our online shop. Pop in to see what bargains we still have available.


Coming Soon

Coming soon….

We have a lot to look forward to this year and a lot of practice to crack on with. We have already kicked the year off on the right foot with our Winter Qigong Routine Workshop. We are planning to introduce our Spring routine around the middle to late February. Keep an eye out for updates on this exciting, and completely free, qigong routine. If you’ve already signed up to our emails then it will be sent out to you automatically. If not, it’s easy to do, just enter your details below.

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15th Dec News & Updates

This week should see the launch of our Winter Qigong Routine. We are preparing for Chinese New Year on January 25th. Our sale continues, there’s still time for it to arrive before Christmas, but hurry!! Our class times and online bookings are also updated for the week ahead.

Winter Qigong Routine

Winter Qigong Routine

We are still working on our Winter Qigong Routine but we should hopefully deliver it to you this week, as promised. If you have subscribed to our email list you will receive the information via your email. If you haven’t signed up yet, now is the time, don’t miss out, do it now!

In this routine we have carefully chosen specific qigong exercises which will keep you fit and healthy. We have targeted specific organs of the body which, according to qigong theory and philosophy, accompany and compliment each other for this time of year.

We will build on the knowledge from our Autumn Qigong Routine, to give you further insight into the benefits and practices of qigong and qigong theory. You don’t need to have read our previous article but if you have then it should compliment the information from it. As always, we would love to hear your feedback. You can either email us directly or contact us via our social media channels.

Horse Stance

Jackie Chan practicing horse stance in the film Drunken Master.

Our horse stance article is still available for you to read. It has an explanation of some of the benefits and a short video to demonstrate.

Give it a try and see for yourself. Why not challenge yourself over the festive holidays and see how long you can hold the stance for by the end of them.

Again, we are are always ready to listen to your feedback and we would love to hear from you. You can either email us directly or contact us through our social media channels.

Chinese New Year 2020

Although everywhere is winding down for the festive period and preparing for the holidays, YHGInverness are gearing up for one of the busiest times of year for us, the Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year.

The Spring Festival is not a public holiday in the UK, however more and more people are taking part in annual Spring Festival events that focus on many aspects of Chinese culture such as food, calligraphy, decorations, martial arts and parades.

The UK, as a whole, doesn’t have an exceptionally high percentage of Chinese or Asian people living here. Major cities such as London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester have a concentration of Chinese people living there. London’s Chinatown is especially large and quite old. Their Spring Festival celebrations are famous for being very large and colourful.

The Spring Festival is based on the Chinese lunar calendar. The holiday lasts for around 15 days in China and many other Asian countries. The Festival itself is celebrated worldwide in many other countries too, including the UK. On the eve of the Spring Festival, families get together and reunite for a traditional dinner. The last day of the Spring Festival is known as the Lantern Festival. The skies are filled with brightly coloured, paper lanterns.

The Inverness Spring Festival Celebrations coincide with YHGInverness’s 8th birthday. Other schools from Peterhead and Ellon will be joining us in the celebrations. We will be performing parades and displays in the Eastgate Centre, the Victorian Market, the High Street and at individual retailers and restaurants around Inverness City centre. You can keep up to date with times and places on our Facebook event page. Please feel free to like and share the event page. We will also be performing at events in Aberdeen and Inverurie. You can see all event pages here:

Inverness

Inverurie

Aberdeen

Hung Sale

Our sale is still on, get in the fast for Christmas!

Our sale continues in the Fu-kit section of our website. Everything is on sale including dresses, skirts, leggings, shorts, t-shirts, polo shirts, hats, caps, teaware, beanbags, mugs, hoodies and much more! (Excludes uniforms) If you are thinking of buying a gift for your training buddies or loved ones who have a passion for Hung Ga, there is still time for it to arrive before Christmas if you buy today. We can only keep prices this low for a short time, so get in there quick. Visit our Fu-kit shop for all sale items.

Classes

Our last class for 2019 will be on Thursday 19th December we will then open our doors to a new decade on Monday the 6th of January.

Current class timetable for Inverness

With a new year and the start of a new decade on the horizon, many people start to look at what they would like to achieve. Physical health and fitness is usually high up on the agenda. Mental wellbeing is often not as high on the list but it is becoming more of a priority. At Yee’s you can combine training both your mind and your body together. Take a look at our Horse Stance article to see just one method that we use which incorporates your mind, body and spirit. Our forthcoming Winter Qigong Routine is another excellent way to improve your overall health and mental wellbeing. Make sure you have subscribed to our email list to receive this information in your inbox!

Beginning classes at Yee’s is really easy. Take a look at our “How Do I Start?” Page. In short, just come along to a Monday or Tuesday evening class at 7pm, it is that simple. No money needed. Just a bottle of water and some comfortable clothes to exercise in. If you need some inspiration to help you take that first step, read our “Motivation, Hints & Tips” article. Nobody can make that first move for you but we’ve tried to make it as easy and painless as possible for when you do. Once you do it, you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it years ago when we first told you!

If you prefer a more personal touch, you can arrange for a 1-1 training session with Sifu Hepple. An hours session will cover the basic warm-up and stance training exercises. It includes a section of your first form and basic principles of our training methods. For this coming week we have full availability on Tuesday 17th Dec. There are also a few 1-1 tuition slots left in the evenings too. Use the timetable below to book an available slot. You can even pay for it all online, that way there’s no backing out. Just turn up at the right time and we’ll take it from there.

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Coming Soon

coming soon….

We have a few plans that we are working on at the moment. As mentioned earlier, we are putting the finishing touches to our Winter Qigong Routine to send out to all our email subscribers this week. We are also busy preparing for the Spring Festival next year on 25th of January. We also have some exciting workshops that we are hoping to bring to you in the new year. To avoid missing out on details of these exciting opportunities, make sure you enter your email below. If you would like to register your interest in any of these workshops, please email us directly.

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