Inner Dharma

Inner Dharma is a martial arts blog maintained by Mark Raugas. Below are short posts on events, seminars and demonstrations I have participated in or photographed over the years, as well as updates on my teaching activities.

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• update : Visiting Nara & Kyoto

  Visiting Nara and Kyoto: Todaiji, Kurama-dera, Yuki Jinja, and Shogoin.

• essay : Divergence and Unification in Shinkage-ryū

  Link to an essay on kata, heiho and shugyo, where I compare and contrast different surviving lines of Shinkage-ryū and reflect on my own practice.

• update : Tōsha Dōjō (Jiki Shinkage-ryū at Lonin)

  Where to practice aspects of Jikishinkage-ryū in the Pacific Northwest.

• update : Kagami Biraki 2024

  The Gassankan Jikishinkage-ryū study group participated in a Kagami Biraki at Lonin.

• update : Tsubaki Dai-jinja

  Visiting Tsubaki Dai-jinja in Granite Falls, WA before it is closed.

• update : Kagami Biraki 2023

  The Gassankan Jikishinkage-ryū study group participated in a Kagami Biraki at Lonin.

• essay : General Qi Jiguans's Jixiao Xinshu and Reflections on Claims of Martial Virtue

  An essay published at Kogen Budo, where I look at some older writings from Japanese koryu that reference classical Chinese military treatises, and then examine how practices described in those works may be represented in arts surviving today.

• update : Keiko at Seattle Budokan

  During a lull in the pandemic the Gassankan Jikishinkage-ryū study group took the opportunity to practice indoors at the Seattle Budōkan.

• update : 2019 Pittsburgh Taiji Seminar with Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun

  Pittsburgh seminar in Northern Wu Style Taijiquan with Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun.

• update : Taiji Classics Seminar

  Attending a seminar detailing excerpts from the Taiji classics.

• update : Enbu for Karunakaran

  The Hobyokan and Masakikai held an enbu in memorial to Karunakaran, senior most student of Donn Draeger in Shindo Muso-ryu jo.

• update : Wu Taiji Quan Seminar with Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun

  Zhao Zeren and Zhang Yun taught a series of three seminars on the Wu Style Taiji Quan of Wang Peisheng during May 2016 in Princeton, Pittsburgh, and Silver Spring.

• update : Kagami Biraki 2016

  Masakikai/Hobyokai Kagami Biraki held in Sterling Virginia in 2016. Arts demonstrated included Shindo Muso-ryu jo, Isshin-ryu kusarigama, Yagyu Shinkage-ryu heiho, Kashima Shinden Jiki Shinkage-ryu kenjutsu, Masaki-ryu manriki, Hontai Yoshin-ryu Jujutsu, and Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu.

• update : Kagami Biraki 2015

  Masakikai/Hobyokai Kagami Biraki held in Sterling Virginia in 2015. Arts demonstrated included Shindo Muso-ryu jo and related arts, Yagyu Shinkage-ryu heiho, Kashima Shinden Jiki Shinkage-ryu kenjutsu, Masaki-ryu manriki, Hontai Yoshin-ryu Jujutsu, and Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu.

• update : Kagami Biraki 2014

  Masakikai/Hobyokai Kagami Biraki held in Sterling Virginia in 2014. Arts demonstrated included Shindo Muso-ryu jo, Yagyu Shinkage-ryu heiho, Kashima Shinden Jiki Shinkage-ryu kenjutsu, Masaki-ryu manriki, Hontai Yoshin-ryu Jujutsu, and Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu.

• update : Demo of Araki-ryū and Tenshin Buko-ryū

  A brief reflection on a demonstration of Araki-ryū and Tenshin Buko-ryū at the NAMT 2013 Night of Budo.

• update : Kagami Biraki 2013

  Masakikai/Hobyokai Kagami Biraki held in Sterling Virginia in 2013. Arts demonstrated included Shindo Muso-ryu jo, Yagyu Shinkage-ryu heiho, Kashima Shinden Jiki Shinkage-ryu kenjutsu, Masaki-ryu manriki, Hontai Yoshin-ryu Jujutsu, and Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu.