Internal Arts Mastery is for those drawn to the mechanics beneath the movements—the real skills that make Tai Chi functional, intelligent, and alive.

This is the direct study of internal power: how the body releases, connects, fills, moves, listens, redirects, and issues force without relying on ordinary muscular tension.

Rooted in the Old Six Roads Yang style system, Phoenix Mountain Internal Arts Mastery trains fascia, Song, Qi, Neijin, and Yi as embodied capacities, not abstract concepts.

This is not performance Tai Chi.
It is not choreography with mystical language added.
It is functional internal skill.

The Training Progression

Internal power develops in two essential stages.


1. Awaken the Internal Body

The 5 Phase Path gives you the direct embodied practices that prepare the body for real internal skill.

Through five phases, you learn to release excess tension, develop living internal support, move with effortless connection, reorganize the body as one coherent whole, and consolidate that wholeness into deep resilience.

Release → Support → Movement → Integration → Resilience

This is the body foundation beneath vitality, internal power, and martial skill.

These are solo exercises you can practice at any time.


2. Master the Internal Method

The 5 Foundational Mastery Curriculum teaches the operating system behind internal power.

Here, you learn how fascia, Song, Qi, Neijin, and Yi actually function: how they are trained, felt, refined, and applied.

The 5 Phase Path awakens the internal body.
The 5 Foundational Mastery curriculum teaches how internal power works.

These are partner based practices to deepen your skill in contact.

Who This Is For

  • Serious Tai Chi practitioners

  • Martial artists seeking internal skill

  • Thinkers who want clarity, not mystique

The 5 Phase Path is the Phoenix Mountain root sequence: five essential practices that transform how the body releases, supports itself, moves, integrates, and becomes resilient.

Deep Stillness & Release

Restorative · Regulating · Deeply Calming

Deep Release & Stillness teaches you how to let tension unwind, soften internal resistance, and settle into a calmer, more spacious body.

Through simple seated, standing, and inner-awareness practices, you learn how to release unnecessary effort and return to a natural state of ease.


Best for:

• stress relief
• nervous system regulation
• chronic tension
• emotional decompression
• learning Song through stillness
• students who want the calming side of Tai Chi before deeper movement training
Sunrise over Still Lake

Living Pressure & Growth

Grounded · Supportive · Resilient

Living Pressure & Growth teaches you how to soften without collapsing and become more supported from within.

Through simple standing, releasing, and awareness practices, you learn how the body can become fuller, steadier, and more connected without strain or force.

This course helps you develop the embodied foundation of internal strength: relaxed support, natural posture, fascia connection, and resilience under pressure.

Best for:
• building strength without tension
• improving posture and groundedness
• releasing without losing structure
• feeling more connected in your body
• students preparing for deeper Tai Chi, Qigong, or internal power training

Tai Chi Walking

Foundational · Practical · Immediate

The simplest way to feel what Tai Chi really is.

Most people try to move before their weight has settled. This creates tension, imbalance, and unnecessary effort.

Tai Chi Walking teaches you to let your weight settle, allow lightness to rise, and move from a calmer, more integrated body.

You will learn how to stand, shift weight, balance on one leg, and walk with greater ease — using the movement you already do every day.


Best for:

• Complete beginners
• Improving balance and coordination
• Reducing effort in daily movement
• Learning the foundation of Tai Chi without memorizing a form
• Students preparing for Tai Chi Flow, Tai Chi Strong, or Tai Chi Vitality

Return to Wholeness

Integrative · Coherent · Transformative
Coming July 2026

Return to Wholeness teaches you how to hold coherence in awareness while meeting the places in the body, mind, and emotional field that still feel fragmented.

Many practices teach release. Many practices teach strength. This course teaches reintegration.

You learn to recognize the felt sense of wholeness, remain connected to it, and allow areas of tension, confusion, numbness, or resistance to return into the larger field of embodied coherence.

This is the fourth phase because after stillness, growth, and movement, the deeper work is no longer about isolated techniques.

It is about becoming whole again.

Best for:
• deep integration work
• emotional and somatic coherence
• resolving inner fragmentation
• restoring connection between body, mind, and awareness
• students drawn to healing, meditation, and transformation
• practitioners seeking to integrate their dantian, greater cosmic orbit, and silk reeling channels

Golden Bell Qigong

Resilient · Luminous · Unbreakable

Golden Bell is the Qigong practice of becoming structurally, energetically, and psychologically unbreakable—without becoming rigid.

While gentle in appearance, it develops a deeper level of vitality, durability, and energetic coherence. The body becomes calm, full, bright, and resilient.

Golden Bell is not about armor made of hardness.

It is the radiance of a body so integrated that pressure no longer breaks its center.

This is the fifth phase because the path does not end in softness alone. It culminates in embodied integrity: open, calm, powerful, and free.

Best for:
• building resilience and durability
• strengthening without hardness
• energetic coherence and protection
• deep Qigong and internal power training
• practitioners ready for profound internal work
• becoming steady, luminous, and fearless under pressure

Master the Internal Method

The 5 Foundational Mastery Curriculum

Once the internal body begins to awaken, the next step is understanding how the art works.

The 5 Foundational Mastery curriculum teaches the core capacities behind real Tai Chi skill: fascia, Song, Qi, Neijin, and Yi.

Each course focuses on one essential layer of internal power, allowing depth without confusion.

Foundation Course 1:
Fascia Mastery

"Where could you be once you've mastered the ability to effortlessly redirect powerful forces? Picture yourself staying perfectly relaxed while handling intense pressure, knowing your subtle movements can guide and control far greater forces with ease.”

Master the "4 ounces moves 1000 pounds" principle through direct experience:

Expand your awareness through the fascinating network of fascia tissue

Control balance and force through subtle intention rather than muscular strength

Build unshakeable confidence in handling powerful incoming force with relaxed ease

A Man Made of Fascia, Performing Tai Chi

Foundation Course 2:
Song Mastery

"What would it feel like to move through life free from the weight of tension, your movements flowing like water, your emotions transformed into pure creative energy? Envision yourself experiencing that rare state where power and relaxation become one."

Discover Song (鬆), the distinctive state of relaxation unique to Tai Chi, through three essential releases:

- Transform tension into fluid power

- Convert negative emotions into their positive counterparts

- Replace heaviness with natural lightness Experience movement becoming effortlessly powerful, spontaneous, and free.

Foundation Course 3:
Qi Mastery

"Imagine having such precise control over your body's energy that you can feel it flowing like a river under your command, healing where it needs to heal, strengthening where it needs to strengthen, all through the power of your focused intention."

Develop clear perception and control of Tai Chi's internal energies:

- Activate and direct the body's natural energy systems

- Master the interplay of Yin and Yang for both healing and martial applications

- Gain the ability to transform conflicting force into compliance within moments

Foundation Course 4:
Neijin Mastery

"Picture yourself moving with such profound awareness that you can feel the energy flowing not just within you, but all around you – your practice having evolved from mere physical movement into a deep spiritual journey that connects you to something far greater than yourself."

Access the profound spiritual dimensions of Tai Chi:

- Expand your energy awareness beyond physical boundaries

- Master the 8 methods (Ba Jin 八勁) of Yang Tai Chi through universal energy (Ling Qi 靈氣)

- Develop powerful healing abilities and instant effortless force redirection

- Connect with true experience beyond mental conception

A Tai Chi practitioner with energy swirling around them in graceful arcs

Foundation Course 5:
Yi Mastery

"Where could you be when you've developed such refined sensitivity that you can read and respond to situations before they even manifest physically? Imagine moving through life with that rare combination of relaxed awareness and instant responsiveness that masters possess."

Master the highest levels of Tai Chi skill:

- Perceive and control your opponent's intention (Yi 意) before physical movement

- Develop the ability to "arrive first while moving second"

- Master the art of emptiness and its martial applications

The Essence of Tai Chi Movement:
The Old Six Roads Yang Style Tai Chi Form

"Envision yourself flowing through these ancient movements with perfect unity of mind, body, and spirit, each posture expressing both martial power and meditative peace, your practice becoming a living art form."

Each section builds naturally upon the Foundation courses, offering three levels of practice:

- Basic flow and universal energy harmony

- Refined physical alignment with energy principles

- Advanced intention work for martial applications

Complete Series (6 courses, $60 each)

- Progressive learning of the complete Old Six Roads form

- Flexible practice options: create 12, 16, 24, or 36 posture forms

- Deep integration of internal principles with physical movement

Awareness Awakening Mini-Course

Experience the essence of Tai Chi in this accessible introduction.

In just two powerful lessons, you will:

- Feel and influence balance through the fascia, a fundamental skill that sets Tai Chi apart from ordinary movement practices

- Release tension and find true relaxation, experiencing the distinctive lightness and groundedness of Tai Chi

Perfect for complete beginners and experienced practitioners looking to refine their fundamental skills.

Testimonials

“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. ”

“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. ”

“I signed up for the [Fascia Mastery] 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.”

“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.”

“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. ”

“I am a 63-year martial artist with 50+ years of experience in a variety of arts. About he last 35 has been focused on Wing Chun. So, touching hands and contact reflexes are really a part of my wheelhouse. This training is the icing on the cake for me. What I understand about typical Tai Chi training is that the usual way to do this is to learn the form, learn various push hands, learn applications, learn weapons (if it is actually taught) and then after many years of practice you (if you are lucky) you get to have a big "uh huh" (enlightenment) experience and can really do the internal part of the art. And, through all of that you have a teacher who has a huge investment in milking the process for all its worth. This is not my experience of Sifu Lin. Instead, he is teaching the "secret sauce" that makes this all work right from the beginning of your training. Which in turn speeds up your learning curve exponentially. (No milking and less frustration with the process) How he is able to do this is through very quick paradigm shifts. Fascia mastery is the content, and each subsequent course creates a contextual shift and builds on that by expanding your awareness through the various energetic distinctions (energies: Song, Qi, Neijin and Yi respectively). As far as I'm concerned this is the way to learn Tai Chi. Think about it... Now I have mastery that I can put into my practice and grow my practice through mastery rather than have an empty practice over 10-20 years that probably won't yield any result beyond the superficial.”

“It is a great boon to humanity when that rare Teacher arrives who is able to communicate complex topics and distinctions in a clear, simple and organized way that leads to RESULTS. This is so evident in several ways: First, in the comments section of your videos, especially from advanced students who have been on the path for a long time and yet finally understand how to incorporate and utilize internal power, which had previously just been a concept or abstraction for them. Second, by the level of detail in your training videos, where you are integrating and synthesizing so many different principles, many of which I had never come across despite being in the Qigong and energy healing arena for a long time now. They have been well-kept secrets indeed....until now ! Lastly, by your personal example you embody the principles of psycho-spiritual integration that develops as a result of deep internal practices, things which include kindness, generosity, and a keen intellect. Thank you Shifu Lin.”

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