2026 Advanced Hand Fighting (AHF) & TongBi Postural Restoration System Training
4-Day Germany Retreat For All Forms of Contact Sports, Performing Arts, Combat Sports, and Traditional Martial Arts
Germany Retreat 2026
July 13–16 | Limited Openings Available
This year’s retreat offers a rare training experience: separate men’s and women’s groups working through distinct yet complementary curricula, then coming together to exchange insights and integrate what they’ve learned.
Unlike conventional combat sports training, martial arts seminars, or technique-focused systems, this retreat explores a body of classical knowledge designed to simultaneously improve performance through structural organization and recovery.
Participants begin training before arrival through weekly Zoom sessions, helping shape the curriculum around their personal goals and creating a more individualized learning experience.
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The Path
Complete Warrior.
Complete Healer.
Complete Human Being.
An Introduction to:
TongBi™ Postural Restoration
Advanced Hand Fighting (AHF) System
Heavy Medicine Hands
Point of Contact Mastery
Most combat sports, contact sports, and performance disciplines focus on developing techniques, strength, conditioning, or tactics.
TongBi™ and AHF begin somewhere deeper: the organization of the body itself.
These systems train the underlying structures that determine how power is generated, transmitted, received, and recovered from. Rather than adding more techniques, this training improves the quality of the body performing them.
Whether you’re a martial artist, combat athlete, coach, therapist, performer or movement practitioner, the goal is the same:
Become harder to disrupt, easier to recover, and more effective under pressure.
What Makes TongBi™ Different?
TongBi™ Postural Restoration is not simply posture correction.
It is a complete method of reorganizing the body according to modern Western and classical Chinese principles of structure, movement, and human development.
As the body becomes more organized, movement becomes more efficient, breathing improves, tension patterns diminish, and force transfers more naturally through the entire system.
Most importantly, TongBi™ serves as both performance training and medicine.
The same principles that improve athletic output also help restore the body after physical exertion, making recovery an integrated part of practice rather than a separate activity.
Ancient Chinese Saying:
The deeper one's medicine
The better one's connection
The more effective one's relating
The more superior one's relating/fighting
Healthy Aging and Longevity Benefits
As a healthy aging and longevity practice this inquiry gives you well rounded full spectrum experience of your total body, emotions, mind and spirit body. The deeper the restoration, the less friction between your various parts.
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What Makes AHF Different?
Advanced Hand Fighting (AHF) is built on a simple principle:
Every interaction begins at the point of contact.
Most systems teach what to do after contact is established.
AHF develops mastery of the first moment itself.
"Known as Heavy Medicine Hands, Point of Contact Mastery this training cultivates an unusually refined quality of touch, pressure, timing, and perception that allows practitioners to recognize and influence force before techniques fully develop."
This is not brute force.
It is intelligence expressed through contact.
The result is a level of sensitivity, control, and effectiveness rarely found in conventional combat sports training.
The Two Posture / Two Power Method
At the heart of AHF is a unique framework that trains two distinct power-generation systems within the body.
"With the abundant dversified repertoires possessed by our practitioners this training is not interested in tactics and technique. But only in ways to break techniques using a hidden core strength borne from two posture mastery."
Heavy Skill
• Horizontal strength
• Rooting and force transmission
• Structural pressure and stability
Light Skill
• Vertical strength
• Adaptive intelligence
• Mobility, timing, and responsiveness
These qualities are developed independently and then integrated into a unified method of movement.
The result is improved power, greater efficiency, better decision-making under pressure, and a clearer understanding of your natural strengths.
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In Summary Through This Training You Will:
• Improve power generation without relying on additional muscular effort
• Develop superior touch, timing, and contact sensitivity
• Discover your personal light-to-heavy skill balance
• Increase efficiency in combat sports, martial arts, and other performance disciplines
• Learn practical drills that continue producing results long after the retreat
• Experience a system that simultaneously develops performance and recovery
• Receive individualized guidance and curriculum development
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Training Begins Before You Arrive
All participants join weekly preparation sessions prior to the retreat, creating a foundation for deeper learning and allowing the curriculum to be shaped by the needs of those attending.
This collaborative process ensures that every retreat becomes a unique learning experience that cannot be duplicated.
Questions or Additional U.S. Training Dates?
Contact Dr. Yuen for more information.
July 2026 Curriculum Decided By Enrollees For This Workshop Only
On The Men's Side
- Complete 108 Posture Yang Tai Chi solo form
- In-depth corrections on first half of the form
- Emulate the correct look and feel of Yang Sau Chung and second disciple Gin Soon Chu's way of practice
- JI Power Pressing (level one breakdown of correct rooting and uprooting technique)
- Da Lu Great Pulling
- Live Steps Pushing Hands
- Tai Chi Zhan Zhuang
- Combat Sport Free Hands to develop spontaneous discharge of skill
- Ba Gua TongBi 8 Standing Meditations
On The Women's Side
- Women's Ba Gua Quan (Eight Trigrams Boxing)
- Separate Body Parts Skill
- Inner 4 Mother Palms organ intelligence study
- JI Power Pressing
- Application drills to develop separate strengths of each palm
- Circle walking with Lo Han base
- TongBi open body meditation
- TongBi 8 Self-defense footwork patterns
- Instructor certification personalized teaching curriculum
Recharge & Rejuvenate in a Beautiful Nature Setting
The immersive 4-day live training takes place at a serene retreat center in the beautiful German countryside. It is close to a pristine lake, hiking trails, and nearby a town with a variety of restaurants.The hotel offers meals, a natural sauna with a view of the woods, and quiet spaces to meditate and relax.
Chief Instructor Mike Yuen PhD
Dr. Mike Yuen has spent over 50 years integrating warrior strength, healing wisdom, and human purpose. A Chinese American who has traveled to Asia more than 30 times to study and lecture, he completed a 23-year classical discipleship to become a fifth-generation lineage holder in the rare Eight Trigrams Boxing tradition—uniting the paths of scholar, healer, and warrior.
He holds a PhD in psychology, is a historian of science, a retired Traditional Chinese Medicine physician, and a former champion full-contact fighter. The culmination of his life’s work is the TongBi™ Method—a higher learning platform that combines the best of Western and Chinese culture and science into an expanded unifying inquiry.
Blending Eastern depth with Western precision, his programs offer a practical, no-nonsense path to real transformation. They help individuals distill a lifetime of experience into a clear, direct personal system for developing strength, clarity, and purpose—so they can lead and serve at their highest level.
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About the Workshop Retreat
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What is the schedule?
The 4-day workshop retreat will begin the morning of Monday July 13th and end the evening of Thursday July 16th. Members are encouraged to arrive the evening before. Each day will involve full training (as much as you like) with lunch and dinner taken together. A schedule will be provided upon registration.
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Do I need to know Tai Chi?
All you will need to know about Tai Chi will be provided in the regular weekly meetings. If you apply and are accepted to attend the live retreat without attending the weekly meetings, it means the above requirements have been waived.
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Do I need to know Ba Gua?
No. This style of Ba Gua Quan is so markedly different from even well known versions that it won't matter how much you know in advance.
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How do I make a hotel reservation?
After enrolling, you will be provided with hotel and travel information.
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What is the cancelation policy?
Registration may be canceled up to 10 days prior to the retreat. A refund will be issued minus a 25% processing fee.
Testimonials
Priceless and Rare
After decades of searching and spending money, time, and effort in Tai Chi, I have come to the understanding that there are two types of Tai Chi instructors. One is passionate about their Tai Chi business. The other is passionate about their Tai Chi students’ progress. My search is over because here I am a person, not an account number. Dr. Mike cares about making me better than himself. That is priceless, and so rare.
A Lot of New Correlations & Insights
It is helpful and interesting that Mike puts everything into a well-thought and logical context and does not just focus on the pure technical level. That broadens the horizon and deepens the understanding.
Brings in the Power of the Original Tai Chi Masters
Power pushing is the missing link to what I’ve suspected was absent from almost all the Tai Chi I’ve learned to date. It simply brings in the power that the original Tai Chi masters were known for. Although much more learning and training are forthcoming, I can already feel the results and realize the potential.
“Closed Door” Transmission
Dr. Mike’s Yuen's REAL TAI CHI training is a powerful algorithm for what I believe is the next phase in the evolution of the Traditional Yang Family systems as well as related lineages. Mike is taking the “Closed Door” transmission he personally received from Yang Sau Chung (Yang Cheng Fu’s eldest son) to a new level that includes both the martial & health benefits but goes well beyond them to a new synthesis of Eastern wisdom & Western technology manifesting as the state of Embodied Presence.
Unique Approach With Great Results
Dr. Mike is offering a unique approach for those not only interested in Tai Chi but mind/body health and human potential. Traditionally, Yang family power pushing is taught to experienced students after learning the solo form. Dr. Mike is introducing it in the early stage of his curriculum with great results. All designed to accelerate understanding and progress. Refreshing is the confidence Dr. Mike has in his students. Dr. Yuen says keep what you have, no need to empty anything. Just be open to integrating Yang Sau Chung’s practices along with modern advances to deepen and expand all that you've learned.
Transforms Your Practice Into Something Much Richer
If you feel like your Tai Chi is not as full and powerful as it could be, Dr. Mike's insights and training can help you transform your practice into something much richer. It's not just the "JI Pressing Power Pushing" but a whole set of practices that turn modern Tai Chi on its head. The training helps untie ingrained habits and helps put them in a new light, opening up whole new frontiers of development in your practice.
Understanding Teacher Strongly Motivates His Students
Private Zoom lessons with Doctor Mike Yuen are very valuable in many ways. Due to his decades of experience in accompanying/instructing renowned masters, he has a deep knowledge in the field of martial arts.
This in combination with his decades of experience as a psychologist, as well as the deep study of traditional Chinese medicine, is a great complement to the deeper understanding of Yang Style Tai Chi.
His teaching is well structured and tailored to the needs/expectations and previous knowledge of the student.
Doctor Mike Yuen is an understanding teacher who strongly motivates the student.
The arrangement of the lessons is uncomplicated and the appointments are always reliably kept.
The teaching content of the Square Method opens another layer to experience the depth of Yang Tai Chi.
In-person training of Power Pushing Hands is a potent tool that gives the student a sense of whole-body consolidation with the associated stability and strength.