Schedule:

• Monday 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Taoist yoga Elemental Flow
• Monday 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm Kung Fu Basic
• Tuesday 7:35 pm to 8:20 pm Taoist Yoga Basic
• Wednesday 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Taoist yoga Elemental Flow
• Wednesday 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm Kung Fu Advanced
• Thursday 7:35 pm to 8:20 pm Taoist Yoga Basic
• Saturday 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Parkour (invite only)
• Saturday 4:00pm to 6:00pm Kung Fu Open level

COST: 160$ a month

Tai Shing ("great sage"), aka Monkey Style, created by Kou Sze, the 4^th inmate.
Training in the art of Tai Shing requires strength within flexibility as well as a strong spirit and concentrated mind. Tai Shing is not imitation or mimicry of a monkey; it is an art that channels primal force and gives adaptation and expression in form and combat. Tai Shing has five attitudes or forms: Lost, Wood, Drunken, Tall and Stone. With these forms the practitioner can choose from an array of strategies to deal with opponents, obstacles and environments. By meditating on the virtues within stealth, evasion, intimidation, destruction and cruelty, Tai Shing as we teach it reveals itself not only as a method of combat, but as a transformative art that acknowledges the shadow in order to illuminate the individual's experience and perception.

Pek Kwar ("lifting and cleaving method"), aka Axe Fist.
Through conditioning of the body and limbs, stance work and basics, the student learns to transmute the five Taoist elements of Earth, Metal, Water, Wood and Fire and apply them to self protection. Eye spirit, body mechanics, form and application of technique are the principles by which we transmit the art of Pek Kwar to our students. Weapons, strategy and concentration are the middle level teachings that the student learns after developing an understanding of the basic concepts listed above. Once the two above criteria are met, either in training or in common sense, the student begins to approach the inner teachings of the way.

Chin Na ("seizing and controlling arts") and Tei Tong ("great earth"), aka Rolling Boxing.
These two arts are supplemental facets to the above mentioned paths. We apply the five elements to the two above supporting arts as such: Earth (erupt), Water (escape), Metal (lock), Wood (constrict), Fire (throw).

Damon Honeycutt

Damon Honeycutt is a transdisciplinary artist whose work involves the cohesion of many traditions. He holds an MA in Conscious Evolution and Integral Studies from The Graduate Institute and a BFA from California Institute of the Arts in Music Composition and Cross Cultural Dance Studies.

Starting his training at the age of 11, he sought out and learned under teachers, masters and practitioners that would help him understand how to bring together the archaic and the contemporary. A grassroots martial arts practitioner and yogi and both disciple of Paulie Zink and long time student of Paul Grilley, Damon founded Temple of the Monkey & TaoistyogaNYC based upon their teachings. Damon has learned under many teachers but it is the way Paulie Zink and Paul Grilley taught Damon the arts that engender his loyalty to their methods.

As a freelance performing artist and composer Damon has worked with a diverse group of artist from many places around the globe. Damon is a founding member of Scapegoat Garden and has worked with Nai Ni Chen dance company, Mei Yin Ng, Beijing Opera company Yuan, I Nyoman Wenten and the Burat Wangi Gamelan, Oddfellows Playhouse, Pickle Shoes Dance,The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Spectral Voices, Crescent Street Films and has been featured at martial art festivals, independent films, and the 79th Annual Academy Awards and The Oprah Winfrey Show with Pilobolus Dance Theater.

As a teacher, Damon uses his diverse range of skill and experience to teach each student as an individual in the art. With personal evolution through disciplined training, Damon mentors the student in the way rather than running them in a system. Damon molds the essential nature of the student so the art can work itself.

Zak Roberts

Zack Roberts has been studying various forms of martial arts since the age of 6. Through a deep-rooted personal interest in China's favorite folk hero, the Monkey King, he found his way to Temple of the Monkey and Sifu Damon Honeycutt. Zack's martial practice has been an amalgam of both forms and application based arts. His personal experience in both of these areas has lead him to synthesize a new practice: fighting and choreography for stage and film. In this middle-ground between performance and combat, Zack focuses on the illusion of violence, and the beauty of technique. He is available for private sessions, particularly for those interested in refining their form, speed, and execution.

Michael Laufer

Approaching the Scholar-Warrior tradition from the scholarly background, Damon’s senior student works to connect the æthereal to the physical in his training. During his apprenticeship with Damon he has been finishing his PhD in mathematical physics, drawing on each practice as inspiration for the other. Being the resident alchemist, he prepares herbal remedies for his fellow students, as well as preparing the school’s supply of Dit Da Jau. His prior physical training is in Aikido and Ninjutsu.

Focusing his training on the internal and the esoteric, his work in the art has been in the pursuit of utilizing the ancient wisdom passed down through the art in a modern context; working with respect for tradition, but not in ignorance of the modern body of knowledge; drawing from centuries old eastern texts, as well as current medical and technical journals, and making connections. One avenue of this exploration has been on the effects the mind imposes onto the body, through the nervous, limbic, and endocrine systems of the body; and the reversal of the flow of effects through physical practice.

In addition to teaching the Thursday Taoist Yoga class, and assisting the classes taught by Sifu Damon, he is available for private training.

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