Way of the Warrior

 Cultivate your Vajra Mind & Buddha Body

Warriorship is not fighting or learning to fight. Warriorship is not martial arts training or sport-fight training. Warriorship is not philosophizing about the true nature of reality and one’s Essence-Nature while imagining oneself to be a “warrior.” Warriorship is an ethos, a way of life that cultivates one’s Spirit moment-to-moment. Its daily training creates an environment of impeccability, humility, loyalty and the mind of service that ultimately leads the practitioner to Buddhahood.

Authentic Warrior Training cultivates the Spirit by working with all three doorways to Buddhahood – the body, its energy system, and the mind. Warrior training seeks to create unification of these three human capacities within an unbroken field of Awareness.

CURRICULUM

1) Physical training sessions in 3 classic martial arts:

• STAV – The Ancient Norse system training weaponry, breath, mind & spirit. Learn how to attack and defend with long staff, walking stick, and knife. Weapons training teaches proper awareness, distance and timing.
• Hakka Gong Fu – A system developed by the “Lady Wu Mei” (Lady Plumflower) who was the 3rd highest ranking warrior in all of China during her time. Learn how to defend and attack using close-range striking and trapping, and how to produce power strikes without the need for large movements using momentum.
• Combat Catch Wrestling – A western system of combat grappling that teaches you how to control the closest range of combat. Training in Combat Catch teaches sensitivity, creativity, and creates a greater range of awareness. Combat Catch Wrestling teaches us to “learn how to learn” (as my coach used to say).

2) Energy Training sessions:

• Wu Mei Qi Gong – Breathing & Energy Channel exercises performed standing and integrated into your martial techniques.
• Rune Stance-Breathing – The Scandinavian Breath & Movement Meditation that combines slow movements, deep breathing and chanting for gaining focused control of one’s energy and mind.

3) Mind Training sessions:

• Concentration Exercises – These classic mental concentration exercises relax the mind into a natural concentration of one-pointed absorption.
• Tranquil Abiding – Entering thoughtless meditation states to cultivate equanimity and peace.
• Non-Conceptual Meditation – Practicing the art of “Non-Meditation Meditation,” which yields the free state of pure spontaneous action so critical to mastery of warriorship and a life of integrated realization.

4) The Principles of Warriorship:

A concise set of powerful principles that lend guidance in each and every moment of your life.

• Impeccability
• Loyalty (warrior love)
• Guardianship (service and compassion)
• Humility
• Commitment (resolve)
• Tracklessness (acting without leaving a karmic imprint)

WHO CAN ATTEND?

This retreat is not only for those who have an obvious nādī (fate) in Warriorship (such as the military, police, fire fighters, and martial artists), but also for any person wishing to explore the unification of Body, Energy and Mind through a classical path focusing on the body as the central vehicle of realization. This training is open to women and men of any age as long as your body is not severely injured or debilitated preventing engagement with the training.

DAILY CLASS SCHEDULE

9:30 – 11:30  Teachings & Practice
11:30 – 13:30  Lunch
13:30 – 16:30 Teachings & Practice
18:30 – Warriorship Discussions around the fire pit (optional)
*Bring your own beverage- Beer, Ale, Mead, Sake or the beverage of your choice.

ACCOMMODATIONS & LOCAL TRANSPORTATION

You will need to organize your own accommodation, transportation and meals during the retreat. Please check out the resources below to help plan your stay. 

Planning Your Stay in Prague

DATES & LOCATION

May 6-10, 2026

Prague, Czech Republic

The retreat takes place at IKIGAI Praha - Center for Complete Self-Cultivation, a true urban retreat place with a zen garden and a calming minimalistic atmosphere.

COURSE FEE

$821 USD*

*At checkout, use the full name, e-mail, and mailing address of the person registering for the retreat. (Payment details do not have to match.)