Mindful Internal Arts
Training & Exercises
A comprehensive curriculum of traditional Taoist practices for cultivating, balancing, and circulating life force energy (Qi), integrating the physical body with energetic structures for health, martial skill, and spiritual development.
Current Training Status
Due to ongoing rehabilitation from spinal injuries, training is currently limited to private students and small groups. These ancient arts continue to play a vital role in maintaining mobility and supporting the healing process.
Personal instruction is available for serious students committed to traditional training methods. The curriculum can be adapted to individual needs, whether focusing on martial skill, health cultivation, or spiritual development.
Foundational Practices
The basics of cultivating, balancing, and circulating life force energy (Qi).
Inner Smile
A meditation connecting with internal organs, transforming negative emotions into positive virtues through directed awareness and loving intention.
Iron Hand Conditioning
Beyond structural conditioning, this practice releases the hand's potential to emit and receive energy, nourishing bone and circulation, stimulating the twelve meridian channels, grounding the practitioner whilst enhancing awareness of the energetic body.
Six Healing Sounds
Specific vocalisations and postures designed to release trapped heat and negative emotional toxins from the major organs, restoring natural balance.
Small Heavenly Cycle
Circulating energy through the functional (Ren) and governor (Du) channels of the torso to build a reservoir of Qi for health and spiritual development.
Chi Self-Massage
Techniques for rejuvenating the senses and skin by directing energy to the head and face, awakening the sensory organs and clearing stagnation.
Tien Gunn
A set of 25 bridging exercises harmonising external and internal connections, building whole body awareness and enhancing overall health.
Internal Energy & Physical Health
Practices integrating the physical body with energetic structures.
Iron Shirt Chi Kung
Exercises for strengthening the internal organs, rooting to the earth, and developing a "body of steel" through condensing breathing and structural alignment.
Dantien Chi Kung
Building power in the lower abdomen (the "Second Brain") to enhance grounding, stability, and the body's central energy reservoir.
Daoyin Chi Kung
A simplified Tai Chi form focused on moving meditation and the flow of Qi rather than combat applications, ideal for health cultivation.
Bone Marrow Nei Kung
Cleansing and rejuvenating the bone marrow to strengthen the immune system and skeletal structure, working at the deepest level of the body.
Inner Alchemy
Fusion and beyond - advanced practices for transforming and refining internal energy.
Large Heavenly Cycle
Advanced meditation aimed at transforming and refining internal energy by leading it through additional energetic circuits in the body.
Fusion of the Five Elements
Formulas for "fusing" emotional energies into a neutralized pearl of energy to circulate through the body's extraordinary channels.
Kan and Li
Lesser, Greater, Greatest
The "Steam and Water" meditations used to invert the natural flow of energy, "cooking" the essence to birth a spiritual body.
Sealing of the Five Senses
Advanced internal work to prevent the leakage of energy through the sensory organs, preserving vitality for spiritual cultivation.
Healing Arts
Chi Nei Tsang - A specialized branch focused on physical bodywork.
Chi Nei Tsang
Internal organ massage primarily focused on the navel area to release energetic blockages. Includes techniques for releasing "trapped winds" (stagnant energy) that cause pain and illness, restoring the natural flow of Qi through the organs.
Sexual Alchemy
Healing Love - Practices for conserving and refining sexual energy.
Cultivating Sexual Energy
Techniques such as "Testicular/Ovarian Breathing" and "The Big Draw" to circulate Jing (essence) and prevent depletion. These practices conserve and refine sexual energy for health and spiritual growth, transforming the most potent force in the body.
Esoteric Traditions
For advanced students, instruction is available in both Eastern and Western esoteric practices. Select a tradition below to learn more.
Divination
Geomancy & I-Ching
Instruction in two powerful systems of divination, each offering distinct approaches to understanding the patterns underlying existence.
Geomancy
Geomancy (from Greek, meaning "earth divination") is a Western method of interpreting patterns formed from random marks. The practitioner creates a series of random lines of dots or marks—traditionally in sand, or with pen and paper in modern practice—without counting them. These marks are counted in pairs, with remainders determining single or double dots (odd yields one dot, even yields two). This process is repeated four times to generate a four-line figure, and sixteen such figures are arranged in a shield chart. Each of the sixteen possible figures carries specific meaning and character. Interpretation involves analysing relationships between figures, their astrological associations, and positions within the houses to address specific, focused questions.
The I Ching
The I Ching (Yi Jing, the Book of Changes) is an ancient Chinese philosophical text and divination system using hexagrams. The method generates six lines using either yarrow stalks or three coins, determining each line as yin (broken) or yang (solid), and whether moving or static. The six lines form one of sixty-four possible hexagrams, each a unique combination of two three-line trigrams. The diviner consults the text for the hexagram and any moving lines. When moving lines appear, the hexagram transforms into a second hexagram, offering perspective on both current situation and future outcome. The interpretation provides philosophical and moral guidance for harmonising human activity with natural patterns of change.
Shared Principles
Both systems share a binary foundation—Geomancy uses four binary elements per figure (sixteen figures), while the I Ching uses six binary elements per hexagram (sixty-four hexagrams). Both employ random generation methods to achieve results. Geomancy tends toward pragmatic, direct answers for earthly matters, incorporating astrological rules for analysis. The I Ching serves as philosophical contemplation for understanding natural law and one's place within the cosmos.
Advanced Scrying Techniques
The Art of Spiritual Perception
Scrying as art and skill is essential to effective conjuration work. These techniques develop communion with the invisible world and cultivate the capacity to interact with beings called into our viewing instruments.
Entering the Receptive State
We explore methods for stepping out of ordinary consciousness—the cultivation of internal emptiness that allows perception beyond the physical senses. The rational mind must learn to move aside without abandoning awareness, creating space for subtler impressions to arise.
The Body as Instrument
Central to this work is understanding that the entire human body functions as a sensory apparatus for spirit communication. Beyond visual perception through crystal or mirror, we develop sensitivity to the many channels through which spiritual contact manifests—physical sensation, auditory impression, emotional resonance, and direct knowing.
Progressive Development
Training progresses from basic techniques establishing visual focus to advanced methods where the practitioner maintains steady awareness whilst remaining completely open to whatever forms of communication the contacted entities choose to employ. Patience and consistent practice are essential to developing reliable perception.
Conjuration
Structured Approach to Spirit Contact
Focused on accurate and respectful representation of symbolic ritual, this instruction outlines a progressive approach to Western ceremonial practice.
The Table of Art
We begin with the method commonly known as Drawing Spirits Into Crystals as the primary introduction to spirit communication. This approach focuses on the discipline of the Table of Art—a consecrated working space serving as the focal point for manifestation. The relative simplicity of this method makes it accessible whilst teaching fundamental principles of ritual structure, consecration, and focused intent. The stability developed through this foundational work proves essential for advancement.
The Elucidarium Tradition
For serious students, instruction progresses into the deeper complexities of the Elucidarium Necromancy tradition (from the manuscript collection VRL 1115). This represents one of the most significant grimoires in the Western esoteric canon, offering comprehensive methods for spirit contact and communication. Study of this material requires solid grounding in the foundational practices and demonstrated commitment to the work.
Approach and Ethics
Throughout all conjuration work, emphasis remains on respectful engagement with spiritual beings. These are not forces to be commanded or coerced, but intelligences to be approached with appropriate humility and clear intention. Safety, both physical and spiritual, depends on proper preparation and genuine understanding of what one undertakes.
Eastern Esoteric Traditions
Taoist & Asian Mystical Practices
Advanced studies in the mystical traditions of the East, building upon the foundational internal arts curriculum.
Taoist Mysticism
Beyond the health and martial applications of Taoist practice lie deeper mystical teachings concerned with the cultivation of spirit, communion with celestial forces, and the ultimate goal of spiritual immortality. These practices represent the esoteric heart of the tradition, available to those who have established firm foundations in the preliminary work.
Talismanic Arts
Instruction in the creation and use of fu (talismans) and other ritual implements within Taoist ceremonial practice. This includes understanding of the cosmological principles underlying their efficacy and the proper methods of consecration and activation.
Western Esoteric Traditions
Hermetic & Ceremonial Practice
Study of the Western mystery traditions, including Hermetic philosophy and ceremonial methodology.
Hermetic Foundation
Grounding in the philosophical principles underlying Western esotericism—the Hermetic axioms, the doctrine of correspondences, and understanding of the subtle anatomy as conceived in the Western tradition. This philosophical framework provides context for practical ceremonial work.
Ceremonial Practice
Practical instruction in ceremonial methodology, including the construction of sacred space, invocation and evocation, and the use of symbolic tools and language. Emphasis on understanding rather than mere rote performance—the practitioner must grasp why each element functions as it does.
Esoteric instruction is offered only to qualified students after foundational training.
Private Instruction
Training is available through private lessons and small group sessions. Each student's curriculum is tailored to their goals, physical condition, and level of experience. Whether seeking martial proficiency, health cultivation, or spiritual development, instruction is adapted to meet your needs.
Located in the Scottish Highlands, with options for in-person and remote instruction.
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