Phoenix Mountain retreats are where the work is transmitted in full context—through environment, time, and direct experience.

We gather in quiet, carefully chosen locations to remove noise and compression. What remains is attention: grounded in the body, distributed through pressure, and stabilized through awareness. Training is precise and personal, guided by direct observation rather than explanation.

What settles here is not temporary.
It continues to operate when you return home.

2026 Retreat Schedule

Westlake
Westlake, California

March 15-22

Establishing the Field

Westlake is the original ground of this work.

The emphasis is on internal coherence, structural stability, and pressure distribution without effort—forming a reliable base for your awareness, your internal power, and your capacity for healing, that you can return to in daily life.

The Beckoning Path
Armonk, New York

May 10-17

The crossing into relational practice.
At The Beckoning Path, internal power becomes relational.
This retreat explores how pressure, awareness, and stability remain intact under contact, as internal structure proves itself between people.

Registration Opens January 19th

Stillpoint
The Beckoning Path, Armonk, New York

October 11-18

Integration

This retreat returns to the Beckoning Path and emphasizes consolidation rather than initiation—how what has been developed is carried back into life with clarity and authority.

Details will be released in due course.

Registration Opens January 19th

Welcome

A message from the Instructor, from the first inaugural retreat.

What Happens at a Phoenix Mountain Retreat

  • Location - We gather in quiet, beautiful locations to remove noise—physical, mental, and social.

  • Transmission - Training is precise, personal, and rooted in felt experience rather than explanation.

  • Aftereffect - What changes here continues to operate when you return home.

What These Retreats Are
(and Are Not)

These retreats are for you if:

  • You value felt internal change over conceptual understanding

  • You are drawn to depth, precision, and quiet rigor

  • You want practice that continues to function beyond the retreat

  • You are willing to slow down to become exact


These retreats are not:

  • Fitness events or performance workshops

  • Certification programs

  • Spectacles or intensives designed to overwhelm

  • Experiences meant to be consumed and left behind


Practical Clarity

  • Group size are intentionally small and cropped

  • Training and rest are held in equal regard

  • Instruction is personal and observation-based

Entering the Retreat Field

Attendance is limited. When it fills, it closes.

If one of the gatherings resonates, trust that signal.

Retreats are the heart of Phoenix Mountain. They are not prerequisites for our courses— but they clarify everything.

Instructor(s)

Instructor Bio:

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

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Highlights from Past Retreats

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