Hello!
My name is Fernanda Lima, also known by the spiritual name Sushma and the "Kung Fu name" Moy Fong Laan Dak (梅風蘭 德). I am the disciple number 5 of the Ving Tsun Kung Fu Senior Master Ursula Lima, the leader of the Moy Lin Mah family.
In the beginning there was already movement
I usually say that I was born dancing ... that the movement has always been part of my life since I understand myself as a person!
With that, very early on, art became part of my personal, professional and self-knowledge journey.
I ended up studying dance, working in the performing arts area as a dancer, choreographer, singer, as a dance teacher ... and later also as a Yoga Teacher and Ayurveda Bodyworker.
The body and movement have always instigated my curiosity to want to better understand this instrument that serves as our “home”, a channel for expression and also of awareness of what we are in essence.
The beginning in the martial arts
Along with all the body languages that I had been exploring until then, there was something about martial arts that touched me deeply! Naturally for the movements that enchanted me, but also for the whole philosophy of life and human development that some of these systems seemed to hide in their form of transmission.
"The Kung Fu will sprout from you." - Master Ursula Lima
Ving Tsun Kung Fu, a Chinese martial art, was the first and only martial art I have practiced until today!
My dance studies had taken me to live in Cologne, Germany, making me periodically visit my family and friends in Rio de Janeiro.
It was in one of these visits to Brazil, in December 2014, at the invitation of my mother Angela Carvalho (‘Moy On Gaak Lai’), an active practitioner of Ving Tsun, that I came to know Mestre Ursula Lima. I remember those bright eyes and the strong voice that caught my attention at our first meeting at Núcleo Copacabana.
Of course, I was going to meet Master Ursula first because of my mother, who was very excited about the practice and very much wanted me to meet her master. However, there was something that touched me deeply during the presentation we did. Mestre Ursula showed a small sequence of movements and said: “I will do it only once. Watch!". Then he asked me to “reproduce” what I had seen. Having been “trained” to learn by copying choreographed movements from within the dance, that new approach was very new and mysterious to me. Then she added: “I showed the sequence once for you to reference. The movements, your Kung Fu, will spring up with time from within you. ”
Obviously, I only started to understand later the depth of what my Si Fu was transmitting at that time. However that day a seed had been planted in my heart: the certainty that Master Ursula would become my Si Fu and mentor within the Ving Tsun system!
I wasn't sure what it meant to be part of a Kung Fu Family and the master-disciple relationship, but I like to remember how that first encounter made me connect in a profound way with my master, this martial art and her lineage.
Hoi Kuen: the invitation to join a Kung Fu family
I went through the Ving Tsun Experience program and a few months later, in February 2015, I was honored to be invited to join the Moy Lin Mah Family, through the Hoi Kuen ceremony, thus being introduced to the traditional system of our lineage.
With Mestre Ursula Lima (seated) and my mother and Gai Siu Yan Angela Carvalho after my Hoi Kuen ceremony
Since then, Kung Fu has been transforming my conduct, my way of perceiving myself, expressing myself and mainly relating to the other as I refine my listening primarily through bodily experience.
Baai Si: a connection for life
1 year ago, on September 21, 2020, I became, along with my brothers Kung Fu Heitor Furtado (Moy Hoi Tok Yi) and Vítor Barros (Moy Wai Hak Do), the fifth disciple of Senior Master Ursula Lima. This moment when I not only received the name Kung Fu 'Moy Fong Laan Dak' (= the Power of the Orchid in the Wind) from my Si Fu and my Si Gung Leo Imamura, but I also signed my lifelong commitment with my Si Fu and your lineage.
Striking moments of my Baai Si offering tea to my Si Fu Ursula Lima and my Si Gung Leo Imamura, next to my Gai Siu Yan, Senior Master Ricardo Queiroz and receiving the certificate with my name Kung Fu
What made me connect on that first date and until then live so many rich experiences of "Kung Fu Life" with my Si Fu and my Kung Fu family, then became not only the introduction to a new system and language of body awareness, but more than that a connection for life!
From left to right: Angela Carvalho (Moy On Gaak Lai), André Villarreal (Moy Yuet Mah), Fernanda Lima (Moy Fong Laan Dak), Senior Master Ursula Lima (Moy Lin Mah), Vítor Barros (Moy Wai Hak Do) , Heitor Furtado (Moy Hoi Tok Yi)
So reported Fernanda Lima 'Moy Fong Laan Dak' (梅風蘭 德), Fifth Senior Master Disciple Ursula Lima 'Moy Lin Mah' and member of the Moy Lin Mah Family Disciples Council along with Rodolpho Alcântara, André Villarreal, Helena Carneiro , Angela Carvalho, Heitor Furtado, Vítor Barros and Marcus Souza.
Learn more about the Moy Lin Mah Family:
Unity Copacabana, Brazil - www.mykungfu.com
Unity Cascais, Portugal - www.myvt-portugal.org
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