Shih Shui Training - 10 Day Private Lessons
The system is taught one student at a time — in Southern California, in Bangkok, or where the student lives.
Shih Shui Kung — 洗髓功, "bone-marrow washing" — is one of the three arts into which the Little Nine Heaven system is divided: boxing, sword, and internal work. For centuries it passed from teacher to student by word of mouth and was never taught openly. Grandmaster Chiao Chang-Hung (喬長虹, 1916–2001), who brought the complete system to Taiwan in 1949, was the first to teach it to the public. From him the transmission passed to his disciple Grandmaster James W. McNeil, thirty-fourth Gate Keeper of the school. I have been Grandmaster McNeil's student since 2013, and I teach with his full authorization. More about him and his teachers: littlenineheaven.com.
Read more about the practice itself: What is Shih Shui →
What the practice does
The practice builds energy. It strengthens the sexual organs and the internal organs — the inner body as a whole — and what is gained there carries into every part of life: into meditation, daily work, and into the intimate life. The ancients had a saying that supplementing with medicine is inferior to supplementing with food, and supplementing with food inferior to cultivating the qi; Shih Shui is a method of the third kind.
How the training works
The lessons are two hours a day, for ten consecutive days, until I am certain that you can perform it safely and correctly on your own. The student then continues the practice on their own; one hundred consecutive days is recommended in the beginning, after which they can work the practice into their regular exercise regimen.
Where
The training is given in one of three places: at the school's property in Banning, California, in the foothills of the San Jacinto mountains, an hour and a half from Los Angeles; in Bangkok, Thailand; or, wherever the student lives.
The fee
$4,000 for the ten days. Payment by card (Stripe), by Zelle, or in cash. If I travel to the student, the student pays the travel and provides the lodgings.
How to begin
Write to me — where you live, what you have practiced, and why you seek this training — through the form below, by email at sifu@l9hbanning.com, or by WhatsApp/Telegram. I'll be available for a call to answer any questions. A deposit then secures your dates.
Consult a physician before beginning any exercise routine.