Tengu Akasha Dojo is built on the integration of several authentic warrior traditions — each carried over decades, each rooted in something older than sport.
Ninjutsu · Taguchi lineage
The historical Japanese warrior art, transmitted from Grandmaster Taguchi Sensei. Body, sword, staff, short blade — and Kuji Kiri as the spiritual spine that runs through every technique.
Escrima · Arnis · Kali
Filipino stick, blade, and empty-hand combat with shamanic roots. Animism, spirit-work, ritual fighting — these were the foundations before the sport era. Mark has trained with Pekiti Tirsia Kali and other Filipino lineages through long-standing exchange partners.
Bagua Zhang and Tai Chi
Daoist internal martial arts. The circle-walking of Bagua, the flowing forms of Tai Chi — practiced as Daoist spirit work, not as fitness. The direct line to shamanic Daoism is alive in these arts.
Chanmi Qigong
Spinal-energy work from the Chan tradition. Inner alchemy, breath, and the meditative core that quietly powers everything else.
Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee's principle-based approach — the five ways of attack, trapping, the philosophy of "absorb what is useful, reject what is useless." A modern lens that sharpens the older arts.
Kuji Kiri — the binding thread
And underneath all of these — Kuji Kiri. Not as a "Japanese tradition" only, but as a practice with roots in shamanic Daoism, Shugendo, Shinto, and esoteric Buddhism. The nine seals appear in all the traditions of this Dojo, in different costumes, with the same heart.