North Star Martial Arts
In depth discussions of internal martial arts, theatricality, and Daoist ritual emptiness. Original martial arts ideas and Daoist education with a sense of humor and intelligence.
Books: TAI CHI, BAGUAZHANG AND THE GOLDEN ELIXIR, Internal Martial Arts Before the Boxer Uprising. By Scott Park Phillips. Paper ($30.00), Digital ($9.99)
Possible Origins, A Cultural History of Chinese Martial Arts, Theater and Religion, (2016) By Scott Park Phillips. Paper ($18.95), Digital ($9.99)
Watch Video: A Cultural History of Tai Chi
New Eastover Workshop, in Eastern Massachusetts, Italy, and France are in the works.
Daodejing Online - Learn Daoist Meditation through studying Daoism’s most sacred text Laozi’s Daodejing. You can join from anywhere in the world, $50. Email me if you are interesting in joining!
Substack is where the new positive vibrations are happening. Subscribe to my newsletter for free and never miss a blog post.
You can always search this blog as an archive, there are more than a 1000 posts here. But my new writing is all over on Substack. Check it out!
This is awesome material, dig in!
A great Daoist has passed on. In the video above you get a great sense of his insights. It is pretty outrageous.
It is from Michael Tse’s channel which has lots of other interesting videos. (It is an excerpt from a longer talk, I don’t know where that is.)
Here we discuss Somatic History and the difference between history in the Comic Mode and History in the Tragic Mode. How does one write history about martial arts, dance, and movement before the era of film and video?
This came out of this webpage Dance As Self Defense
This is the first in a series of interviews I am doing about the Golden Elixir, maybe it will become another book!
A place to train and learn about traditional Chinese martial arts, which are a form of religious theater combined with martial skills.
