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.