Seminars & Workshops

Wu Shen Tao offers comprehensive workshops and seminars for schools, organizations, and individual groups. We can bring instruction to your location, providing 2-12 hour courses in various health and martial arts disciplines.

If we cannot meet your specific needs, we will direct you to qualified instructors who can assist you.Softness Overcoming Hardness- Push Hands without the bulging muscles. 4-10 hours

Featured Workshop Topics

Internal Arts Fundamentals

Softness Overcoming Hardness - Push Hands Excellence (4-10 hours)

Explore the Tai Chi principle of "Use mind not strength, let softness overcome hardness." This workshop examines both theoretical and practical training methods to develop these essential skills without relying on bulging muscles.

Internal Push Hands Mastery (2-20 hours)

Comprehensive training in strategies, methods, and two-person drills that enable students to perform Push Hands using authentic internal principles. Focus on avoiding external strength pitfalls while developing real-world skills that transition from form practice to practical self-protection applications.

Tai Chi Applications Workshop (2-6 hours)

Examine various postures from Yang and other Tai Chi systems, working multiple applications for each posture. Participants gain deeper appreciation and expanded understanding through progressive methods and stress testing that moves from theoretical to practical usage.

Energy and Meditation Training

Wudang Qigong Intensive (4-8 hours)

Traditional Taoist Qigong exercises passed down through the Wudang Dragon Gate system. Effective methods for increasing body strength and opening meridians to enhance Qi flow. Goals include improving energy flow quantity, quality, and cultivation for health and longevity.

Advanced Energy Cultivation (Varies)

Specialized training in internal energy development, meditation techniques, and consciousness expansion methods from traditional Taoist practices.

Weapons and Combat Applications

Push Sword Workshop (3-9 hours)

Apply Tai Chi Push Hands principles to sword work, exploring concepts, training methods, and drills for sticking, following, and returning force in relaxed, controlled manner.

Participants must bring wooden sword, eye protection, and protective equipment. Light contact and slicing techniques only.

Contact Swordplay Training (5-12 hours)

Comprehensive sword methods focusing on hand, foot, and combined applications. Learn to apply the sword as cutting, slashing, chopping, piercing, deflecting, and countering tool through traditional training methods.

Lo Har Chuan Self-Defense (4-6 hours)

Four-part self-defense sequence effective against head and body attacks, transmitted through Yang lineage. Practice both stationary positions and moving drills for practical application.

Practical Self-Defense

Street Self-Defense Workshop (2-6 hours)

Essential principles and tactics for street survival. Learn the mindset, strategies, training methods, and core techniques that can create favorable outcomes when dangerous situations emerge unexpectedly.

Topics include threat assessment, awareness training, de-escalation techniques, and fundamental self-protection methods.

Women's Self-Defense (2-6 hours)

Specialized training addressing common scenarios and threats faced by women, with emphasis on awareness, escape techniques, and practical defensive strategies.

Family Self-Defense (3-8 hours)

Comprehensive training for families, including age-appropriate techniques for children and coordinated family protection strategies.

Multi-Art Comparative Training

Internal Arts Applications Comparison (4+ hours)

Explore how Tai Chi, Bagua Zhang, and Xing-I Chuan address identical stimuli using different footwork, intention, and mindsets. This training reveals how each of the three main Chinese internal arts creates interesting variations in self-defense applications while sharing essential core principles.

Participants gain better perspective on how each style differs from and relates to the others.