Kung Fu Movement - Workshop Series

This is your invitation to get out of your head and back into your body. Over two months you'll develop movement that feels powerful, fluid, and connected, and you'll walk away with practical tools you can keep using long after the course ends.

You can join single Workshops (though it is recommended to join the whole course). Each workshop will focus on one Animal (please see tickets for details) and Tai Chi Sword. In each workshop we will have lots of time: The focus is on DEEPENING instead of just rushing lots of input.

We'll dive into the Five Animal Qi Gong from XUAN Gong Fu and learn how this system trains efficient, expressive movement. As well as how to ground yourself in training as well as in daily life. Alongside it we'll introduce the Tai Chi Sword, applying the same principles to explore precision, flow, and whole-body coordination (swords are provided).

Each animal teaches you something specific:

• The Turtle opens the body softly and calmly through structure, finding chain connections into the floor and out through the body.
• The Crane plays with softness and structure, opening and closing the chest while training weight control and one-leg balance.
• The Dragon works with spirals, moving freely yet deeply rooted. The hands move like dragon heads, the lower body precise yet wild.
• The Snake brings precision, speed, and sharp, explosive action through its 8 Motions, once you've built rooted stances and an open, flexible waist.
• The Tiger brings explosive power through center connection and body waves, teaching you how breath supports explosive movement.

You'll then take these same qualities into the Tai Chi Sword training, where softness, structure, spirals, precision, and explosiveness translate into weapon work. The sword becomes a tool to refine your intention, extend movement through space, and seriously level up your coordination and awareness.

Throughout the course you'll train how these qualities support each other and emerge from the same source. We pay close attention to how softness, responsiveness, and explosiveness can coexist when movement is well organized. Standing Qi Gong runs through every session as a core training method, not an add-on, sharpening your awareness, coordination, and ability to generate force.

We also include targeted strength and mobility work to support the ranges, shapes, and dynamics we're building, with a focus on legs, hips, spine, and shoulders, trained in ways that carry directly into movement and martial application. And there's real time to repeat, explore, and feel how the work translates into clearer, freer action.

What you'll walk away with:

• Spiral-based power and connected, whole-body movement
• Fast, explosive actions that stay fluid
• Better coordination between center, limbs, and breath
• Strength and mobility that supports low stances and opens the upper body
• Standing Qi Gong as a practical tool for control and efficiency
• Partner work from Tui Shou (Push Hands)
• A solid introduction to Tai Chi Sword and its core principles
• A nervous system that knows how to switch between effort and ease

This intensive is all about contrast and integration. Softness and sharpness, slowness and speed, relaxation and power, trained together through clear principles and direct physical experience. It's a focused deep dive for anyone who wants time, attention, and depth in their training.

The details:

Join with the Intensive Membership or the Course Ticket, and you get access to ALL weekly classes. You'll also receive a training plan with video tutorials for everything we cover, so you can keep practicing on your own time.