Union Instructor: Luke Shepherd Main Instructor: Paul Fretter (Paul is one of Luke’s instructors in same lineage.) Paul has practiced and taught martial arts since the early 1980s and in 2006 was graded to 5th Dan in Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate Do. He began Tàijí as a student of Peter Dobson in 1991, and then […]

Union Instructor: Luke Shepherd Main Instructor: Paul Fretter (Paul is one of Luke’s instructors in same lineage.) Paul has practiced and taught martial arts since the early 1980s and in 2006 was graded to 5th Dan in Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate Do. He began Tàijí as a student of Peter Dobson in 1991, and then […]

Instructor:  Luke Shepherd A full weekend to dive deeper into the principles inside the form. Expect lots of push hands and correlation between push hands and the form movements. This brings the principles to life as we see how to apply them. Push hands gives us the sensitivity and timing to use they accurately. Cost:  […]

Instructor:  Luke Shepherd Taiji is the study of change. From one moment to the next, we arrive in a new posture, position or situation. Have we maintained our alignment, balance, stability and our equilibrium? Can we apply taiji principles to our movement, so we can blend into a new situation feeling centered and whole?  Can we […]

Union Instructor: Luke Shepherd Main Instructor: Paul Fretter (Paul is one of Luke’s instructors in same lineage.) Paul has practiced and taught martial arts since the early 1980s and in 2006 was graded to 5th Dan in Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate Do. He began Tàijí as a student of Peter Dobson in 1991, and then […]