Welcome to Inner Dharma, the martial arts site of Mark Raugas. This site used to host a martial arts blog — some of my published writing can now be found among the references still available here.
I trained in a hard form of Japanese karate as a youth and then practiced a mixture of Shorinji Kempo and Aikido in NYC from 1989 to 2001. After moving to Baltimore in 2004 I began training in internal martial arts and classical weapons traditions from China and Japan.
In 2018 I began working on Jiki Shinkage-ryū kenjutsu with a small number of people in Seattle in order to continue my training. That activity is now continued by two of my students. I continue to practice traditional internal martial arts as a form of self-cultivation.
I am happy to recommend those interested in classical and traditional martial arts practice to senior teachers and groups I am aware of and admire.
