Cloud Sword Seminar —The Snow Orangutan Gate
A four-hour hybrid intensive for all students—where breath, fascia, and blade enter one line.
Saturday · 11:00 AM–3:00 PM (ET)
Hybrid: Chelsea NYC (in-person) + Zoom (online)
Tuition: $165 (4 hours)
劍道 Tao of sword,
Deep cultivation mechanics
Breath meets structure. Structure meets tissue.
Then the body answers—first in small ways: a rib unhooking, a hip unclenching, the spine taking weight more cleanly.Sword form refinement
Alignment, stepping, spirals, timing—
not as separate corrections, but as one current finding its channel through the blade.Fascia wake-up methods
Elasticity, recoil, threading—
the hidden silk beginning to remember itself, tension no longer stuck but stored, returned, alive.Integration
Quiet standing. Blade in hand.
Carrying the sword not as an object, but as mind given length, edge, and breath.