WHO WE ARE

We are a school dedicated to the opening of inner awareness and inner worlds through the teaching and training of Tibetan, Chinese and Mongolian Martial Arts. These Arts are interconnected to each other and also to higher realms of awareness, thought, physical capability, and healing energies. We teach through various forms, meditations, and practices connected with Tai Chi, H’sing-I, Pa Kua, the 8-Taoist Immortals, 5-Elements, 3-Forces, and the 8-Tibetan Dragon Animal Arts of Wu-Tang. We are a school of Internal Arts and all that they offer.

OUR GOAL

Our focus is to give training in these Arts for the development and empowerment of the individual. Our goal is for students to realize that there are no limits to what they can accomplish as they develop and focus their attention.

WHAT INTERNAL ARTS CAN DO FOR YOU

We teach Internal Arts. This means a focused concentration and development with inner strengths and capabilities such as special breathing, energy management (Chi development and use) and coordinating the inner resources of awareness, focus, concentration, and physical capabilities with the greater energies of the Tao or Universal Life Force. The focus is not on how much better you are than someone else, but rather on how to bring yourself to the best alignment and possible skills that you can attain. We promote an atmosphere of cultivation and development rather than that of challenge and defensiveness. As you are always changing while you grow and achieving finer and finer levels of integration with your capabilities, we teach a life-long method of attuning yourself to greater and greater levels and skills.

THE TAO

A person who follows the Tao, the mystic Way of the Universe, gains a special energy called Chi. When you hear the wind howl in the caves, see the leaves on a tree move, you will say it is the wind. But it is not the wind, it is the sound of caves and leaves! The wind is invisible and beyond definition. You can only know it is present by what it affects or stimulates. So too, the Tao cannot be studied by itself. It can only be felt and sensed, and it is usually learned in a profession or Art form. A picture painted with the Tao affects everyone in the room. It changes some people’s lives and quietly influences others’ moods without their even noticing! There is an incompleteness or emptiness that allows the looker to actually add to or become part of the picture. A person cultivates Chi like The Force in Star-Wars. Chi resides in all things and flows in all places.