People who are wanting to discover the skills, consciousness, and power that they already have inside them.

We have forgotten that skill building is an art, and art requires imagination. Constantly seeking "more more more," is a serious state of lack and outsourcing of your own personal power. 

This site is to simplify and reconnect you to the true power of being a human. We are creative!

Be creative with what you already possess. Do more with less. When ignorance teams up with privilege, we tend to overcomplicate things. Good teaching brings out the skills, energy, and power that is already inside you. 

The YAMA System is a Yoga and Martial arts system that Matt sequenced when let out on his own from being a full time martial artist to touring in rock bands. Stay with me, this will make sense. 

Over the years, he picked up students all over the US, then opened his school In the Bay Area. The YAMA System is an efficient sequence to get your martial arts, yoga, internal energy, and fitness all in one. 

This system has been used by professional fighters, celebrities, and practitioners of all levels. 

This website was created when Matt was working on the TV Show, Into the Badlands, in Ireland, and he needed to get this valuable work to his other students around the globe. 

He has used these techniques and courses to train, Law enforcement for better communication and empathy, for people to rehab injuries, and to get actors ready and looking great for their roles.  

The ways you can use this work is endless. 

You should only choose something that you feel right about. I will be the first to say that, as an artist and a life long practitioner of this work. I make sure to place as many tools in your hands and ways to view and use those tools. After that, all the power and responsibility is in your hands to show up, be patient, kind to yourself, and practice. 

My teachers always warned me about charlatans that make "Skill Based Promises." If I promise to give you skill, I am lying. I can give you information, ideas, and assistance. You are the one that has to purchase that skill with focused time and energy.

I would choose this site for these reasons:

• We always promote and encourage practice
• There is external and internal work. If you want to be effortless, you must use a little effort. Thus we condition your Qigong & Yoga. While reminding you to relax while exercising. 
• Journaling and mindfulness is a part of the site, because if your mind ain't right, your body, digestion, sleep, and many other things are effected. Think of how many people are going through mental crisis at the moment. Train it!
• We give a frame work to practice. Train like you have something to do later, because I'll bet you a million bucks you do. Simplify your goals and learn to seek deeper into what you already know. 
• We are always growing, and adding to this site.

This is not new, this is not my creation, nor is this my idea. Actually, the way modern Yoga has been separated from martial arts is weird to me. Martial arts is, in many ways, just placing your skills under stress to be able to make a more conscious person even while in conflict. I mean what better way to induce stress than fighting? This results in less reactionary people that make conscious choices instead of emotional reactions. Seriously... The world needs that. 

If you trace the roots of many martial arts, you will wind up in India. There are many forms of yoga, and some believe that Yoga was the first martial art. The legend of Kung Fu being taught to the monks in China by Bodhidharma from India is just one example, and a very big one. Again this just proves my point of changing the lens of "more more more" in the world of skill building. 
Treat creativity and adaptation like a skill. Do you really need to learn a new thing? Or would you benefit more from learning how to expand on what you already possess?

Let me be very clear though. I do not teach actual martial arts online. That can only be done in person, and in groups. Thinking you can learn martial arts online is like thinking you can learn to swim without getting wet. We do teach some basic techniques and conditioning that are fundamentals of learning a martial art. Think of it like music. We are teaching scales and exercises. It's up to you to form a band.