ith Grandmaster Gin Soon Chu and Master Vincent F. Chu (2008)
Stone Circle in Outer Hebrides, Scotland (2004)
Dao/Knife in Hawaii in 1997.
Monkey
Rene teaching at INAM-ATRC Philippines.
Snake Creeps Down from Yang Family Tai chi chuan, New York, 1998
Fairy Child Praying to the Goddess of Mercy Guanyin.
Tai chi Single Whip, taken in Huangshan, Yellow Mountain
With Grandmaster Lao Kim at the Hua Eng Athletic Club in Manila's Chinatown in 1970.
Grandmaster Lao Kim with the Guan Dao
Interview published in Martial Arts Illustrated in London.
Grandmaster Lao Kim (seated) and (from left to right) his disciples Master Johnny F. Chiuten, Ching See San, and Rene Navarro.
Huangshan Sunrise
Rene, David, Wang Ting Jun (teacher of Xing Shen Zhuang Fa) and Ana Vladimirova taken in Chiangmai in 2004.
Cave Candles. Huangshan,2007.
West Lake, Hangzhou: David, Gonca, Rene, Victor, Andrew and Gabe after training in Huangshan.
At a pyramid in Egypt
Egypt: Pyramid with camels.
Rene reading his poetry at the Marble Summer Arts Festival in New York City. He read four poems — “Memory,” “Island Shaman,” “Treating Father with Acupuncture” and “The Old Calligrapher.” The poems are in the poetry section of the website. Photo by Laura Billingham Photography.
Rene with the other artists — novelists, singers, actors, writers, documentarians. Photo by Laura Billingham Photography. This was Rene’s first poetry reading in NYC in many years. His first poetry reading in the US was at the 40th anniversary commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima. It was held at the Peace Garden in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1985.He read “The Old Calligrapher,” a poem about a Buddhist monk meditating at a stone garden when the bomb exploded.
