Bulgaria Nature
A Seven-Day Shaolin Fan Retreat WithShifu Shi Yanjun
Train with 34th Generation Shaolin Warrior Monk Shifu Shi Yanjun in Bulgaria and explore one of the most surprising weapons in Chinese martial arts: the fan.
The Shaolin Warrior Fan
The fan is easy to underestimate.
It looks elegant.
It moves with grace.
It opens and closes with beauty, rhythm, and control.
But inside martial practice, the fan becomes something more: a tool for timing, precision, coordination, focus, expression, and power.
This seven-day retreat is dedicated to the yin-yang nature of the warrior fan.
Through daily practice, you will learn how the fan moves through the body, how it changes your timing, how it sharpens coordination, and how it brings together grace, discipline, and martial intent in one unforgettable form.
Most people know how to push harder. Fewer people know how to move with power, control, and restraint.
The warrior fan trains that balance. It asks you to be:
That is the yin-yang nature of the fan. For seven days, you will train the body to move between softness and strength, openness and closure, grace and precision.
You are not only learning a form. You are learning how power feels when it is guided by discipline.
You will study the fan as a weapon, a form, and an extension of the body.
Closed, the fan trains striking, blocking, direction, precision, and martial intent.
Open, it trains rhythm, expansion, control, expression, and the ability to hide and reveal movement.
Across the seven days, you will work with the fan through traditional practice, step-by-step instruction, correction, repetition, and embodied training with Shifu Shi Yanjun. Training may include:
The goal is not to copy a sequence.
The goal is to understand how the fan becomes part of the body: precise, expressive, disciplined, and alive.
This retreat may be for you if you spend most of your life in your head and want to feel connected to your body again.
You do not need to be advanced.
You do not need to already practice kung fu.
You need curiosity, willingness, and respect for the work.
Bulgaria Nature
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LocationDuring the retreat, you will train with Shifu Shi Yanjun through daily practice focused on the warrior fan.
You will learn step by step, repeat, refine, receive correction, and experience the fan as more than a beautiful object or sequence of movements.
You will work with the body, the breath, the mind, and the fan as one practice.
More details about the schedule, accommodation, meals, travel, and registration are provided after inquiry.
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34th Generation Warrior MonkThis retreat is led by Shifu Shi Yanjun, a 34th Generation Shaolin Warrior Monk and teacher of traditional Shaolin kung fu.
Shifu brings the fan to life not as performance, but as practice.
Through direct instruction, correction, repetition, and presence, you will learn from someone who carries the tradition in his body and teaches it through lived experience.
For students in Europe, this is a rare opportunity to train with Shifu in person without traveling to China.
If you are interested in joining The Way of the Warrior Fan retreat, you can request the full retreat brochure or move directly to registration.
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