SYK Publishing
SYK Publishing

A library for returning to centre.

The collected work of S Y Kelake, Shifu Yalun Kelake: Chinese philosophy, the martial arts, psychology, and the Seeking That Which Was Lost series.

Kept in one place, for my children, and for yours.

The rooms

Four doors into the work.

Each room has its own colours and its own pace. The same house holds them all.

The Library

Every book, on one shelf

26 titles across the Seeking That Which Was Lost series, the Master Wu Cycle, the Zhuangzi series, the Tao Te Ching and the NLP Series, with more of them opening up to look inside as the library grows.

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Philosophy

Three roads, one question

China, India and the West, told as stories: oracle bones and the laughing sage, the forest teachers and the boy who met Death, and the minds who looked into the mind.

The Martial Arts · room in preparation

Thirty years on the mat

Ren Yi Wu Kwan, Bajiquan, and the peaceful warrior: the training that carried the philosophy into the body, and the body through the storm.

Oracle & Readings

Two old mirrors

The I Ching Oracle, free to consult with all sixty-four hexagrams written in full, and the Divine Triangle, a personal numerology reading by request.

The Library

On the shelf.

Scroll the shelf, or open the full library to see every title by series.

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The film

See the work in motion.

A short introduction to SYK Publishing and the Seeking That Which Was Lost series.

Portrait of S Y Kelake
The author

S Y Kelake

Shifu Yalun Kelake · 師父 雅伦 克拉克

S Y Kelake is a Shifu in Chinese Gong Fu and a martial arts practitioner and teacher of more than thirty years. He is a father, a student of Forensic Psychology and Psychological Studies, a publisher, a journalist, a masseur, a yoga practitioner, a meditator, and a man who has lived long enough with difficulty to know that wisdom is not something you acquire — it is something you slowly recover.

Following a terminal cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, he chose to spend whatever time remained doing what he had always intended: sharing what he had learned, in whatever form it could take, with whoever needed it.

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