Welcome to the course dedicated to the principles of Integral Martial Arts. Whether you are a beginner or seasoned practitioner the foundation of this 4 week series will revolutionize your performance in taichi, qigong or martial arts. These sessions can be used as a guide to enhancing your abilities regardless of the style you practice. This course will introduce you to the fundamental principles of body mechanics, energy awareness, and harmonious culture of movement that are universally applicable.

Session 1: How to Become Grounded, Rooted and Centered
Explore the principles of energy awareness that will help you become more grounded, centered and rooted. You will also learn how to - quite literally - use power instead of force, so you can become more powerful, rather than forceful. In this lesson, you are also going to discover for yourself how to be responsive, rather than reactive, even under pressure.

Session 2: How to Become More Empowered
In this lesson, you're going to find out how to take the most energy effective steps and to turn in the most efficient manner, which will take your practice of Qigong, Taichi or Martial Arts to a completely new level. You'll also gain new insights and greater clarity over your stressors by integrating the principles of energy awareness and body alignment that contradict the helplessness, rage and collapse that are part of stress. 

Session 3: How to Maximize Your Energy
Discover how to double the power of your punches and elbow strikes by using the body mechanics to achieve internal power. This session will also enhance your authenticity within your practice so that you remain natural even under tense circumstances.

Session 4: How to Practice Peak Performance
In this fourth and final session, participants will integrate everything learned in the previous trainings and put those principles into practice. The focus is on refining coordination, body awareness, and efficient use of energy through practical application, with self-defense serving as a testing ground rather than the main goal. You will explore how to apply principles with clarity and consistency, developing reliable progress without overexertion, and gaining tangible, felt feedback.

In this workshop you'll use practical testing to discover how your pattern of body tension at the root of your pain restricts your movement. You’ll be led through movements that retrain muscle memory and learn the ways to unravel your pattern of tension.

Key Principles:
- How to live in a pain-free body
- Navigate energetic and emotional stress in daily life.
- Tension and pain are not isolated incidents but symptoms of a profound pattern.

In this workshop you'll learn how tension and pain are a functional problem rather than a structural one. What appears as a breakdown in body parts are, in reality, malfunctions of the nervous system—a consequence of stress and/or traumatic injuries. You'll learn how to shift your  perspective from trying to "fix" the body to understanding the interconnectedness of its parts.

Key principles:
- Expand the edge of your comfort zone.
- Improve your quality of life through improving the way you move.
- Resilience to face challenges formerly beyond the edge of our comfort zone.