XUAN - Gong Fu Academy

RETURN TO NATURE

Cultivating ourselves and cultivating the land around us. It is no coincidence that many Taoist practices use the terminology of farming. To cultivate ourselves can go hand in hand with taking care of what is around us. Cultivating land with natural methods is also only possible once we start to evolve ourselves and come closer to nature again.

Return to Nature is our project to bring these two things together.

Join us soon for seminars that combine practicing Gong Fu with working on our project — building a community that understands the value of these two in combination!

Until that starts, you can already begin with the Gong Fu part. In October, our new Teacher Training starts. So if you're interested in working with us online or in Berlin, get in touch with us!

From the heart, I am thankful for this wonderful weekend we had.
41 degrees, sweat, smiles and hard work. I felt like home here — at the school of Rainer in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Together with child, wife and full-time family, we visited the dojo in Mülheim. A place that was established for Karate at first, but has now also stood for quality internal martial art practices for some time already.

Rainer and Renate are dear friends and long-term students of mine, for over 6 years now. Being part of the Teacher Education and barely missing a seminar, they brought great basics to their practice. And even more important, an atmosphere of training that is both relaxed and yet very serious. I was touched by all the kind people around them who joined from the area around!

We will be back for sure. Can't wait to be there again.
Thank you Rainer, thank you Renate, thank you all of you that joined!

Mugen Taiko Mülheim Rainer Schmäring Renate Kirtz Timon Mader Tamar Witkow

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https://www.mugendojo.de/

https://www.mugentaiko.de/

ENTERING FULLTIME - What the Fulltime Program is about!

I created this video for students joining our Full-Time Program – but I thought it might be nice to share it here as well, since it gives a good overview of what our program looks like!

The Full-Time Program is a very special frame in which students have the opportunity to practice in modern days as it was done in ancient times – dedicating themselves fully to the practice of the internal martial arts, becoming students in a modern temple.

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Marthe... we are getting ready!

Short clip from our weekly training with

Return to Nature!

How does the practice of Wu Wei apply to the world of farming? How is the world of farming reflected in the practice of inner martial arts? How does the search for one's inner Nature connect with the search for the Nature around us?

I am excited to announce this very special upcoming project — or actually, I should call it a new area of Xuan!

For over 5 years we have been looking for the right place to make this dream a reality. And once again I learned: when you let go, it can come naturally.

The Xuan Gong Fu Academy — our full-time Academy here in Berlin — is all about education within an intensive framework, with the intention to open gates and to guide people as quickly as possible into progress, so they can take as much as possible onto their journey in a short time. It is about the challenge of finding quietness in the noise of the city, in order to build up abilities that can be applied no matter where students go.

Return to Nature will be the opposite. It will not be about fast progress, but about a lifestyle that guides students into balance over longer periods of time. Students will become part of our community, of our family, and explore together with us how self-sustainable farming and Gong Fu practice bring balance. It will be a place for special seminars, but also a place for students to stay and to make their home together with us.

It is a return home — a return back to Nature. To the inner Nature within us, and the one surrounding us.

More information will follow soon!

How does the practice of Wu Wei apply to the world of farming? How is the world of farming reflected in the practice of inner martial arts? How does the search for one's inner Nature connect with the search for the Nature around us?

I am excited to announce this very special upcoming project — or actually, I should call it a new area of Xuan!

For over 5 years we have been looking for the right place to make this dream a reality. And once again I learned: when you let go, it can come naturally.

The Xuan Gong Fu Academy — our full-time Academy here in Berlin — is all about education within an intensive framework, with the intention to open gates and to guide people as quickly as possible into progress, so they can take as much as possible onto their journey in a short time. It is about the challenge of finding quietness in the noise of the city, in order to build up abilities that can be applied no matter where students go.

Return to Nature will be the opposite. It will not be about fast progress, but about a lifestyle that guides students into balance over longer periods of time. Students will become part of our community, of our family, and explore together with us how self-sustainable farming and Gong Fu practice bring balance. It will be a place for special seminars, but also a place for students to stay and to make their home together with us.

It is a return home — a return back to Nature. To the inner Nature within us, and the one surrounding us.

More information will follow soon!

CONSTANT MOVEMENT of Tai Ji Quan
-A Teacher Training Excerpt-

No matter if for our body, our breath or our mind, constant movement is essential for a healthy life. Nature gives us the perfect role model — nothing ever stands still in the universe. Tai Ji Quan is the practice that reconnects us with our own cosmic energies, with our own nature. By doing so, we establish what I call constant movement.
Stagnation in our mind can lead to stagnation in our breath and body — and vice versa, stagnation in our body can also block our mind.
With the simple practice of flow in movement and in stillness, we reestablish the connection to our own constant movement.

This is an excerpt from our monthly Teacher Training Education — available both online and in presence here in Berlin. A systematic, long-term education in inner martial arts, Qi Gong and meditation.
The next opportunity to join us is this October. Pre-register in time — every year I have only limited space for new students to enter this journey with me!

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Why to fight?

In our Fighting Week 2026 we explored this big question together. While there might not be one answer, we tried to explore why fighting practice can be relevant even for internal martial artists and students who focus on inner cultivation rather than external fighting skills — and furthermore, why fighting and quiet practices are actually not so different.

The skills we need and the abilities we build up might not be as different as one thinks at the beginning. For us, fighting is the practice of looking for balance. The more we understand this art, the less we fight — and the more balance we create in and around us.

Join us next year when we repeat this by now yearly special tradition!

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