Fascia

Where it all comes together

Beneath our skin, and alongside our muscles and tendons, a connective tissue called Fascia runs all through our body. It connects every corner of our body to help us control our every movement.

The Key to Effortless Control

An Ancient Secret Advantage

Ancient masters of Kung Fu and Shuai Jiao (Chinese Wrestling), always striving for improvements to their skill, discovered a surprising secret. By directing your force along certain paths on a person’s body, you can powerfully limit their movement and impact their balance. They deeply investigated these methods. These techniques became what we now call Fascia Control, or Fascia Tapping.By mastering this skill, you can let go of habits of hard struggling, and replace it with a powerful method of a soft & effortless influence. This shift in mindset will prepare you for the more subtle skills in Tai Chi internal practice, and allow you to extract even deeper benefits from your Tai Chi practice. Because when you are always relaxed and soft, your body can feel, heal, and function better, can it not?

For these reasons, we call Fascia Mastery a Pre-Internal skills. And because of these reasons, it is the best first step into the practice of Tai Chi Internal Power.

Course Objectives

Discover Jin – Make use of your body’s natural elastic quality to effortlessly receive and generate force.
Utilize Tensegrity – Activate the power of the Fascia spring in your body that forms the physical basis of Peng.
Develop Ting Jin – Open your awareness of Fascia and how forces travel along them in another person’s body.
Fascia Tapping – Instantly find another person’s center and seize control of their force and balance.
Applications – Unlock Tai Chi movement applications to throw your opponent and control with joint locks while neutralizing their resistance to your technique.

Meet the Course Creator

Shifu Lin is a lineage holder in Yang Tai Chi, Chen Tai Chi, Yin Bagua, Plum Flower Mantis, Eight Step Mantis, and Nanjing Guoshuguan Shaolin with more than two decades of teaching experience, whose rare knowledge of internal arts has been sought by practitioners worldwide. Known for making profound concepts accessible and providing personalized guidance.

He was awarded medals for swordsmanship, Shaolin, and Northern Chinese martial arts internationally in Shandong and has developed numerous martial arts training and health treatment programs combining Western medical science, Qigong healing, spiritual healing, and traditional Chinese martial arts.

Shifu Lin

Lead Instructor

Your Enrollment Includes

All the material to help you succeed

24 Recorded Lessons

Learn just like our in-person students with instant, full, and life long access to videos recorded directly from our 6 week seminar series on Fascia Mastery. The lessons are short, clear, and easy to understand. Because we take you beyond the mysticism to the simplicity and elegance of the Truth that you have been looking for.
Online Discussion Community

Resolve your uncertainties with access to our online discussion community, where you can ask your questions, post your experiences, and receive feedback and answers from the course instructor. We have a friendly community of like minded individuals enjoying this journey to Tai Chi Mastery, and you are welcome to join!
Livestream Review Sessions

Join periodic group Livestream review sessions where you can submit your questions or demonstrations, and receive live and personalized answers and demonstrations to clarify whatever is holding you back. Because when we know exactly what is limiting you, we can lead you past that block to your full potential.

Course curriculum

Welcome

Recent Updates (10/22/2024)
Tai Chi Tune-Up: Live Coaching on Zoom
A Message from the Instructor
Learning Resources

Module 1: Fascia and Fajin, the Elastic Power of Your Fascia

Shengong for Aligning Your Mind For Learning
Lesson 1: Feel and Use Your Fascia
Tips: How to be a helpful practice partner
Lesson 2: Fascia Receive and Send through your Arm

Module 2: Awareness of Other People’s Fascia

Lesson 3A: Sense Another Person’s Fascia
Lesson 3B: Details of Fascia Depth and Awareness
Lesson 4: Solo Exercises for Fascia Sensitivity
Lesson 5: Application – Moving Someone Who Resists – Using Your Fingers
Lesson 6: Application – Student Demo of Moving Someone Who Resists – Using Fingers
Shengong For Removing Obstacles To Successful Learning
Lesson 7A: About Party Tricks in Kung Fu and Tai Chi
Lesson 7B: Party Trick – Pinky Kungfu

Module 3: Developing Dantien, the Control Center of Fascia

Lesson 8: Activate Your Lower Dantien
Lesson 9: Activate Your Middle Dantien
Lesson 10: Discussion on the Upper Dantien

Module 4: Controlling movement through Fascia

Lesson 11A: Application – Neutralizing a Push – Using Your Fingers
Lesson 11B – About Neutralizing a Push
Lesson 12: Application – Student Demo of Neutralizing a Push – Using Fingers
Lesson 13: Fascia Control Through Your Palms
Lesson 14: Yielding and Countering Fascia Control
Lesson 15: Moving Someone Who Resists Using Your Palms
Lesson 16: Application – Neutralizing a Push – Borrowing Force Against Them
Lesson 17: Application – Neutralizing a Push – Redirecting Using Palms
Lesson 18: Fascia Control Through Your Wrist and Forearm
Lesson 19: Application – Creating Sticking – Using Wrists

Module 5: Applications in Tai Chi and Push Hands

Lesson 20: Application – Fascia in Tai Chi Rollback
Lesson 21: Application – Fascia in Splitting & Diagonal Flying, Joint Locking
Lesson 22A: Introduction to Tai Chi Push Hand
Lesson 22B: Using Fascia in Tai Chi Push Hands
Lesson 23: Push Hands and the Power of Superior Awareness
Lesson 24: Sensing the Fascia Line for Throws & Take Downs

What’s Next?

Course Completion
What’s Ahead

Supplemental Material

Tai Chi Tune-Up: Live Coaching Livestream from July 13th, 2024
Tai Chi Tune-Up: Live Coaching Livestream from Oct 19, 2024

Shifu Lin – Fascia Mastery – Transcending Force With Effortless Sensitivity

Fascia

The Key to Effortless Control

Course Objectives