The North American Tang Shou Tao Association (NATSTA) Northwest Regional Summer Conference is an immersive gathering for practitioners dedicated to the study of traditional martial arts as living, functional systems. This year’s conference weaves together Xing Yi Quan, Qi Gong, San Miguel Eskrima, and the Hawaiian martial art of Lua, offering a rare opportunity to train across internal, external, and indigenous lineages within one cohesive field of practice.

Participants will engage in Xing Yi fundamentals and applications emphasizing structure, intent, and martial realism; Qi Gong practices that cultivate breath, connective tissue, and internal coherence; and San Miguel Eskrima, a blade-based Filipino system known for its precision, adaptability, and direct transmission of combative principles. Each discipline is taught not as an isolated art, but as part of an integrated method of developing awareness, power, resilience, and skill.

We are honored to welcome Kumu Michelle Manu as a guest teacher, offering instruction in Lua, the indigenous martial art of Hawaiʻi. Lua is a profound cultural practice rooted in ancestral knowledge, strategic awareness, and embodied responsibility. Kumu Manu brings both technical depth and cultural integrity to her teaching, sharing Lua as a living tradition dedicated to protection, stewardship, and the perpetuation of Hawaiian culture.

Training sessions will emphasize hands-on learning, partner work, internal development, and the shared commitment to preserving and evolving these arts with integrity.

Whether you are deepening an established practice or stepping into new traditions, the NATSTA Northwest Regional Summer Conference offers a rare and grounded space to train, learn, and connect within a community devoted to authentic transmission and living martial culture.