Cheng Hsin Holland Camp 2027
11 days of martial arts & consciousness workshops!
with Brendan Lea
14 – 24 August | 2027 in Nijmegen (NL)
and a demonstration on Friday evening August 13th
Our annual Cheng Hsin Holland Camp goes back to 1990 when Peter Ralston, the founder of Cheng Hsin, visited Europe for the first time. In the decades to follow he deeply inspired many people in the martial and consciousness communities. His top student Brendan Lea from the USA will facilitate the event for the fourth time. You are warmly invited to join in!
Brendan Lea
Brendan has worked with Peter Ralston for over 20 years. He has done every apprenticeship program and lives at the Center in Texas. He has been trained in facilitation and assists Ralston in his consciousness workshops. He also runs his own workshops in cities in the US and other countries.
His commitment to study and training has created a great awareness and understanding of the dynamics of mind and body as they apply to effective interaction. Through years of intense contemplation he has also developed a deep understanding of self, life, and reality. This allows him to powerfully facilitate others in having the breakthroughs and insights necessary to expand their own consciousness and create new skills.
Workshop schedule
This is our 12-day schedule for the 2027 Cheng Hsin Holland Camp.
Demo + miniworkshop
13 August
We’ll start the Camp with a Cheng Hsin Martial Arts demonstration on Friday evening (19.00 – 20.30). The demo will be given by Brendan Lea and international group of experienced Cheng Hsin practitioners and is followed by a short workshop. You are warmly invited and feel free to bring along your family, friends, and anyone else who might be interested.
Location: De Refter Chapel, Rijksstraatweg 37, Ubbergen (near Nijmegen)
Date & Time: Friday evening, August 14 (7:00–8:30 p.m.)
Admission: Free
Art of Effortless Power Workshop
13 - 19 August
In this two (weekend) or eight day long workshop you will deeply explore the principles that found body design and function, effortless power and skilful physical interaction. All teachings will be based on understanding and training principles rather than following dogma and routines.
The Art of Effortless Power is a dynamic art with many techniques, footwork, and lots of internal work on relaxation, feeling awareness, balance and freeing up ineffective mental patterns. You will be questioning assumptions, overcoming beliefs and transforming how to use your body. It is a joyful learning experience.
The workshop has a highly intensive and structured format. You will be challenged to change your own experience towards that of being effective whilst remaining totally relaxed and calm. We will be working from the ground up. With props, techniques, games and exercises which you can take into your own art to help you deepen your work. Please note that the evenings of the sword workshop are included.
Tai Chi Sword Workshop
14 - 18 August
During five evenings you will learn (part of) the Cheng Hsin Tai Chi sword form of around 30 movements. In addition we will practice a short two-person sword form and work with exercises that help you handle the sword with much greater sensitivity, relaxation, and skill. Through a variety of games and sparring exercises, you will also be developing effective skills in the art of sword fighting.
Boxing Workshop
19-21 August
Cheng Hsin boxing arts are unmatched in their depth of intelligence and level of understanding about the nature of effective interaction. You will learn to develop effortless striking, invincible defences and strategic understanding of rarely visited domains of human mind and perception, not to mention physics and physiology. This workshop starts on Thursday evening.
Contemplation & Enlightenment Intensive
21-24 August
A Contemplation and Enlightenment Intensive is similar in some ways to an intense Zen retreat. Throughout the workshop, the participants ask or “hold” a question, such as “Who am I?” for the purpose of directly experiencing who they are. In Zen terminology, such a breakthrough is called an enlightenment experience.
There is no “data” in this intensive, nothing to memorize, no formula to live by, nothing to understand. New distinctions and breakthroughs are likely to occur, yet they occur solely out of the participants’ own work in contemplation.
Learn more about this Intensive before signing up.
Venue
Our venue ‘Groepsaccommodatie De Elegast’ is beautifully located on a woody hill near Nijmegen This former boarding school now offers one person cubicle bedrooms with running water. Showers and toilets are on the corridors. Our hosts Karin and Paul will serve you excellent vegetarian meals.
For more information see: www.elegast-groepsaccommodatie.nl
Costs
Here is an overview of all costs. For some workshops the accommodation costs have options. The first is full lodging (including sleeping, meals/coffee/tea and mat fee) at €85 per day. The second is meals/coffee/tea only for €60 per day. And the third is none (but actually a mat fee of €25 per day).
We offer the Early Bird discount only if you register and make a non-refundable deposit before April 1st!
Registration
- Sign up by sending in the registration form below. Make sure to indicate which workshop(s) you wish to attend and also indicate your choice of accommodation. To make you registration complete make the required deposit. Transfer the deposit by wire to IBAN NL85 TRIO 0198369425 (BIC code: TRIONL2U), to Effortless Power
Training & Coaching, mentioning Deposit Cheng Hsin Camp 2027
The remaining amount will have to be paid by transfer before July 1st
mentioning Cheng Hsin Camp 2027.
- If you sign up and make you non-refundable deposit before April 1st 2027 you receive the Early Bird discount!
- After signing up and making your deposit you will receive a preparation letter with general information on lodging, a route description, workshop conditions and other requirements.
Registration form
Contact
In case you have any questions regarding the registration or the Cheng Hsin Holland Camp in general please contact:
Rob van Ham
Grotestraat 40
6511 VD Nijmegen
the Netherlands
0031 6 2900 8785
info@chenghsin.nl
Cheng Hsin Nijmegen
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