山月館

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Moon Mountain

Yuèshān-guan [ 山月館; "Moon Mountain Hall" ] is a private training activity in the Pacific Northwest dedicated to the cultivation of skill at internal martial arts.


Seattle, WA

Moon Mountain Hall

Bagua, Xingyi and Taiji

I practice traditional Northern Wú ( ) style Taijiquan, Yin () style Baguazhang and Hebei () style Xingyiquan as part of formal lineages preserved in Yin Cheng Gong Fa (YCGF) North America.

Kenjutsu

I also maintain an independent practice of Shinkage-ryū kenjutsu that I learned at the Hōbyōkan as informed by my continued internal martial arts practice. I call my approach Gassan Kenpō [月山・剣法] — Gassankan is the Japanese reading of Yuèshān-guan.

百物先天地 無形本寂為
能著像主不 逐四時泪寥

There is something before heaven and earth, formless and silent.
It can manifest all things and does not wither with the seasons.

Mark Raugas