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.

FAQ

  • How much time does the course take?

    About 15-20 minutes each day.

    Each lesson is between 5-15 minutes, and the contents can be practiced in about the same amount of time. A few days of practice will help the skill settle into your body to be available automatically. Most persons will successfully integrate these skills in 3-6 months.

  • Can a beginner take this course?

    Good news, this course is the best place to start for a beginner interested in the complete art of Tai Chi. Because Fascia Mastery will help dissolve the tendency to tense up, and teach you to reach a level of confident relaxation. That means you will benefit more from Tai Chi's health benefits and find the advanced internal practices to be more accessible.

  • Do I need a practice partner?

    Most of these practices involve affecting another person's fascia and balance, so to fully master these skills you will need a practice partner. They do not need any Tai Chi skill. They need just a willingness to press on you or resist your efforts to move their balance.

  • Can I take this course with my injury?

    Most of these exercises can be adapted to be performed sitting down, and require very little force. If you can sit and drive, you can likely still fully benefit from this course. But always consult your physician before beginning any new exercise or activity program.

  • What if I don't understand from the videos?

    All students have access to a student discussion community where I will personally answer each question. In addition, we will periodically have group Livestream sessions where students can ask questions, demonstrate and ask for feedback, or ask for additional demonstrations. It is my goal for you to succeed and I will continue to support you in your journey to success

  • What if I need to feel these skills?

    Great news. Each enrollment comes with 2 vouchers to attend our in person weekly courses in Southern California. You are welcome to drop in during which we have Q&A and drill practice time for you to experience these methods directly, from the instructor.

  • What if I need ongoing live guidance and feedback?

    For persons who really appreciate the interactive possibilities of live guidance, we also offer this course in a completely live stream form. Classes will meet every other week, tentatively from July through December. Please email me if you would be interested in being a part of the next Livestream course.

  • What will I get from this course?

    You will learn to neutralize force placed on you. You will learn to effortless overcome resistance. You will learn how much influence you have, without having to struggle. You will discover how accessible Tai Chi skill is for you, and what a difference that will make in your Tai Chi practice, alongside your daily life.

Course curriculum

    1. Recent Updates (10/22/2024)

    2. Tai Chi Tune-Up: Live Coaching on Zoom

    3. A Message from the Instructor

    4. Learning Resources

    1. Shengong for Aligning Your Mind For Learning

    2. Lesson 1: Feel and Use Your Fascia

    3. Tips: How to be a helpful practice partner

    4. Lesson 2: Fascia Receive and Send through your Arm

    1. Lesson 3A: Sense Another Person's Fascia

    2. Lesson 3B: Details of Fascia Depth and Awareness

    3. Lesson 4: Solo Exercises for Fascia Sensitivity

    4. Lesson 5: Application - Moving Someone Who Resists - Using Your Fingers

    5. Lesson 6: Application - Student Demo of Moving Someone Who Resists - Using Fingers

    6. Shengong For Removing Obstacles To Successful Learning

    7. Lesson 7A: About Party Tricks in Kung Fu and Tai Chi

    8. Lesson 7B: Party Trick - Pinky Kungfu

    1. Lesson 8: Activate Your Lower Dantien

    2. Lesson 9: Activate Your Middle Dantien

    3. Lesson 10: Discussion on the Upper Dantien

    1. Lesson 11A: Application - Neutralizing a Push - Using Your Fingers

    2. Lesson 11B - About Neutralizing a Push

    3. Lesson 12: Application - Student Demo of Neutralizing a Push - Using Fingers

    4. Lesson 13: Fascia Control Through Your Palms

    5. Lesson 14: Yielding and Countering Fascia Control

    6. Lesson 15: Moving Someone Who Resists Using Your Palms

    7. Lesson 16: Application - Neutralizing a Push - Borrowing Force Against Them

    8. Lesson 17: Application - Neutralizing a Push - Redirecting Using Palms

    9. Lesson 18: Fascia Control Through Your Wrist and Forearm

    10. Lesson 19: Application - Creating Sticking - Using Wrists

    1. Lesson 20: Application - Fascia in Tai Chi Rollback

    2. Lesson 21: Application - Fascia in Splitting & Diagonal Flying, Joint Locking

    3. Lesson 22A: Introduction to Tai Chi Push Hand

    4. Lesson 22B: Using Fascia in Tai Chi Push Hands

    5. Lesson 23: Push Hands and the Power of Superior Awareness

    6. Lesson 24: Sensing the Fascia Line for Throws & Take Downs

About this course

  • $300.00
  • 39 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Testimonials

Thank you everyone for allowing me to share your wonderful feedback.

“I told my students it's like going to your favorite store every day for years (Tai Chi) and suddenly you find a whole new room with even more delightful things to discover.”

Tai Chi Instructor, taichisusan.com

Susan Thompson

“I was looking for this kind of explanation! You answered my questions in a manner I could easily understand and followed up with effective demonstrations.”

Tai Chi Instructor, Colorado USA

Martin F.

“I signed up for the course. At first I was a little skeptical. I just finished lesson 4 and for me I think it's worth every penny. To be honest, I learned from a Sifu for 10 years and have never had this kind of knowledge. Thanks Sifu Lin.”

Tai Chi Student

Student Comment on YouTube

“As a long time martial arts practitioner and physiotherapist as well I recently completed Sifu Lin's Fascia Manipulation course online and I found it to be invaluable knowledge. The whole world is still only dwelling on muscles and leverage but the fascia manipulation layer is an absolute game changer. I highly recommend his course.”

Martial Artist, Physiotherapist

Izzel Barbosa

“As someone training BJJ for almost 10 years I know from experience that what is explained in these lessons exists and is the true way of attaining greater mastery over your own body and mind as well as over your opponent's energy being projected on to you. It truly is fascinating what our bodies are capable of. I'm now practicing daily the 8 Silk Brocade Qigong as well as the Fascia course, and managing to apply in real life sparring for now little but fascinating elements of your teachings Master. When it works it truly feels like magic, like a black belt level details on grappling that BJJ instructors don't talk about.”

BJJ Practitioner - 10 Years

Mikhail P.

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