You have more potential in you than your mind and body can currently deliver.
And conventional ways of training or coaching will only take you so far.
Imagine an unbroken training lineage, thousands of years old, devoted for all those centuries to one question. How does a human being unlock the full power and capability already inside them?
Yiquan is that lineage. Born in the great mountains of the Himalaya, brought into modern form in twentieth century China, and delivered to the United States by a handful of teachers.
An inheritance planted in the long ago and alive right now, inside a world of challenge and opportunity no earlier generation ever faced.
With the healing and fighting art of Yiquan as our foundation, infinite horizons of potential come into our reach.
We heal the parts of us needing repair, we reach a stillness in body and mind, and the stillness opens uncompromising access to the will, so we build a future of real consequence for ourselves and for the people around us, starting now.
Principles We Train
Expand under pressure
Every untrained system contracts when challenged. We reverse that reflex permanently.
Pressure becomes the signal to open, and the body begins to gain from the forces that used to drain it.
Own the centerline
Structure organizes around a single vertical axis. Hold that center under force and you stay where you are, whether the force arrives as a punch or as a hostile question across a table.
We build the center in standing practice, and you keep it everywhere afterward.
Superior focus. Yi.
Yiquan translates as Mind Boxing for a reason. Intent leads and the whole connected body follows.
Attention becomes a trainable power, and the will becomes a muscle you extend past the body into the situations that matter.
Deep Outcome
Crazy wisdom
An unbroken line runs from the training back to the oldest Himalayan training structures. Those traditions described a state that arrives only from complete training, a crazy wisdom, absolute perceptiveness joined with fearlessness.
You master the basic logic of how things work first, in the body and in the world, and only then does the higher sanity arrive, resting on a foundation already built.
We train toward exactly that state, crazy wisdom resting on neurophysiological integrity that keeps refining year after year.
At that level action stops being forced. The situation itself produces the action, and you move as the one through whom it arrives.
We are now fit to run lightning through our bodies and minds.
The Training
Three arcs, each one individual training, week after week, direct. The virtual track delivers the full trajectory. In person adds contact. Group training opens later, and the waitlist is open now.
Virtual Track
Ill to Still$10,000
What we build
- A complete standing practice, set precisely to the individual body
- A nervous system that drops into deep rest on command
- The first felt experience of expanding under rising pressure
How it feels
- Monkey mind quiets and stays quiet
- Sleep deepens, recovery accelerates, energy builds through the day
- Certainty begins replacing hesitation as the ground steadies
How it works
- Weekly private training sessions, twelve total
- NuCalm, a neuroacoustic recovery system, woven in from the first weeks
- Power tested at the close in the first domain, the body itself, against the Week 1 baseline
What is expected
- Forty minutes of training daily
- An opening to the whole world, its pressures and its gifts, as raw material
Still to Will$20,000
Everything in Ill to Still, and
What we build
- Power that travels from the feet through the whole connected frame
- A centerline held under measured physical load, tested and confirmed
- Yi sharpened into intent that moves before hesitation forms
How it feels
- The settled state holds under pressure that used to fragment it
- Challenge and attack become fuel for capacity
- A grounded certainty that whatever arrives can be met
How it works
- Weekly private sessions across six months
- Progressive loading of the postures in measured steps
- Power tested in domains of rising consequence, from the hard conversation at home to the decision that moves capital
What is expected
- Forty minutes of training daily
- Live situations brought to the work each week, where you extend the will into the world
Will to Action$45,000
Everything in Still to Will, and
What we build
- A permanent practice that no longer depends on willpower
- Whole-body power that arrives all at once, like a bullet
- Strategic perception that arrives ahead of events
How it feels
- Certainty as a working baseline, present on ordinary days
- Action without internal division or hesitation
- Ground in the place of old hesitation, confirmed by a year of evidence in the body
How it works
- Weekly private sessions across the full year
- Quarterly reassessment against the original baseline
- Power directed into the highest-consequence domains you operate in, named at the start, the company, the capital, the family, the mission
What is expected
- Forty minutes of training daily
- A named place where the trained power will be directed
Virtual and In-Person Track
The virtual track delivers the full arc, measured against the same Week 1 markers. In person adds a different dimension, body to body, mind to mind, the way the art has always accelerated. Hands on the structure compress months of refinement into hours.
Ill to Still, In Person$30,000
Everything in the virtual tier, and
- Two in-person intensives, two days each, at the opening and the close
- Opening days set the form through direct transmission and hands-on correction
- Closing days test the body against the Week 1 baseline through contact
Still to Will, In Person$55,000
Everything in the virtual tier, and
- Three in-person intensives, two days each, at the opening, the midpoint, and the close
- Centerline confirmed through contact at each threshold, the way the art has always verified it
- Progressive loading applied under direct instruction, force against force
Will to Action, In Person$95,000
Everything in the virtual tier, and
- Six in-person intensives, two days each, spaced across the year at every threshold
- Direct transmission at every phase, the way the lineage has passed power for generations
- Every phase of the arc tested through contact, from the first standing correction to power directed under pressure
Lineage
Andrew Markell began his training in Nepal, at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery, with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. He went on to train Yiquan and other fighting arts under Sifu Gregory Fong for twenty-five years. Alongside those lineages he trained in the healing arts for twenty-five years under Patricia Spradling and many other masters, and has spent decades applying the whole of it with communities, top leaders, private and public companies, Special Operations, first responders, government, and family offices.
The art descends from Wang Xiangzhai through an unbroken teaching line. Transmission happens person to person, which is the reason the work stays individual.
Begin
In combat, as in leadership, true power lies in what we can perceive and influence before others realize the game has begun.