Hello World!

Welcome to the first ever Blog post for GiCheon In The Kitchen, a website where we showcase our approach to personal improvement and mind body cultivation. Not to repeat everything on the about page, we are one part amateur food scientist, and one part martial arts master! Using our skills on each other, we will learn and better ourselves, and hopefully, if you watch our videos and read our blog, you too! Michael has been cooking and brewing wine for the past ten years, and has a lot of experience in the kitchen to draw on with the failures to prove it! Victoria has been teaching the Korean martial art of GiCheon for twenty years, in Korea, Holland, and now in Manchester, England. She has also given seminars and hosted weekend retreats all over the world in multiple laguages! Michael has never taken martial arts classes before, and Victoria doesn’t really like cooking, so together they decided to skill swap! Michael has been training with Victoria in GiCheon, and Victoria has been watching Michael cook various delicious things in the kitchen, and then of course eating them!

We then had a conversation about the fact that more people should eat better, like we do, and that more people should know about the benefits of GiCheon. We realized that instead of wondering why people eat such poor diets, and don’t do enough exercise, we should show people how to improve their diet, and how to practice GiCheon! Surely our experience had a wider audience than just each other?

Michael had only done a small amount of Yoga before, and was familiar with traditional sports stretches when beginning exercise, but GiCheon was a completely different animal! IT REALLY HURT! He found that the static poses were a lot more difficult to maintain than any Yoga pose, and the dynamic ones were very difficult to learn. Rather than complimenting the natural postures of the joints, GiCheon forces its practitioners to push and pull their joints into unnatural and very uncomfortable positions and hold them for a lot longer than you would like to! After his first session, he felt sore, but loose, and the pain subsided quickly, and he felt more focused and less tired. He had been practicing for an hour and he already wanted more! This first session went unrecorded, which Michael is eternally grateful for, as there would have been no flattering angle to film him from, he now has a much looser fitting outfit to wear which covers more of his jiggly bits!

Victoria has been well fed by Michael for the past six weeks and has enjoyed every morsel, she was incredibly impressed when she realized that he was cooking everything from scratch, holistically. No jars of processed sauce, no added preservative chemicals, no artificial colours, and no unnatural flavourings, he was even serving his own wine! How could one man have the time to do all of this preparation of food, and still have a full time job, social life, and other hobbies? Surely all of this food preparation takes ages and costs a fortune? Well no, he assured her, it is actually quite simple, and takes relatively little time. As for cost, with the right ingredients, from the right supermarkets, and even using online retailers, it is cheaper to make things at home than buy processed foods!

Together we feel that we have a lot to offer people, a way to eat better, and feel physically healthier, with only a little extra effort, and no extra cost. Hopefully you will join us on this journey, and improve your physical, mental and spiritual health. Watch this space!