Courses, workshops, trainings and other offerings designed to bring you out of your head and into a more direct relationship with your body, awareness, and lived experience.
Some offerings are built around movement and internal cultivation. Others explore healing, consciousness, and the patterns that shape how we move through the world.
The First Gate
A 6-Week Men’s Initiation to the Temple of the Red Cedar Fist
The First Gate is six weeks of foundational training for men who want to develop a deeper relationship with their body, breath, and internal awareness.
A lot of spiritual and consciousness work happens from the neck up. We read about it, talk about it, try to understand it. This training takes a different approach. We begin with the body.
Over six weeks, we’ll work with breath, standing practice, alignment, movement, and the connection between the spine and pelvis. You’ll begin learning how to settle more deeply into your physical body, quiet unnecessary tension, and develop the kind of internal awareness that Qigong and other internal practices are built upon.
We’ll also talk about the mentality behind training. How you approach a practice matters just as much as what you practice. There will be time for conversation, weekly reflection, and looking honestly at what comes up when you slow down enough to actually pay attention to yourself.
This isn’t about mastering a bunch of techniques in six weeks. It’s about building a foundation.
By the end of The First Gate, you’ll have a set of practices you can continue working with for years, along with a better understanding of what internal cultivation actually means through your own direct experience.
You don’t need previous martial arts, Qigong, or meditation experience. You just need to be willing to show up, practice, and pay attention.
The path begins in the body.
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