Filipino Martial Arts Training opportunities!
Martial arts is not about fighting; it’s about building the strength of the spirit and the clarity of the mind. True mastery is found in the journey of self-discovery and unwavering commitment.
Martial arts training offers a profound avenue for spiritual growth and self-mastery, intertwining physical discipline with mental resilience and emotional balance. Here are several ways it supports your journey:
Mindfulness and Presence
Martial arts require intense focus and concentration, demanding that practitioners remain present in each moment. This mindfulness cultivates a deeper awareness of one’s thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations, fostering a connection with the self that is essential for spiritual growth.
Discipline and Commitment
The rigorous training involved in martial arts instills a sense of discipline that extends beyond the dojo. This commitment to practice encourages an unwavering dedication to self-improvement, which translates to all aspects of life, reinforcing the importance of perseverance on your spiritual journey.
Emotional Regulation
Through the physicality of martial arts, individuals learn to manage their emotions, transforming feelings of anger, fear, and frustration into focused energy. This emotional mastery is crucial for spiritual development, as it allows for clearer thinking and more constructive responses to life’s challenges.
Building Confidence
As you progress in martial arts, you will encounter and overcome physical and mental obstacles. Each accomplishment boosts self-esteem and fosters confidence, creating a strong foundation from which you can explore deeper aspects of your spiritual self.
Connection to Tradition
Martial arts often incorporate ancient practices, philosophies, and rituals that guide practitioners on a path of self-discovery. Embracing these traditions can deepen your understanding of your own beliefs and values, enhancing your spiritual practice.
Community and Support
Martial arts typically foster a sense of belonging and camaraderie among students. This community provides encouragement and support, helping individuals navigate their personal journeys with a sense of connection and shared purpose.
Integration of Mind, Body, and Spirit
The holistic nature of martial arts training cultivates harmony between mind, body, and spirit. This integration enhances self-awareness, enabling practitioners to recognize their true selves and live in alignment with their core values.
Resilience through Adversity
Training in martial arts often involves facing challenges and setbacks. Embracing these difficulties builds resilience, teaching practitioners that failure is a stepping stone to success. This resilience is crucial for navigating the ups and downs of a spiritual journey.
Philosophical Insights
Many martial arts come with rich philosophical teachings that explore concepts such as humility, respect, and the nature of conflict. These insights encourage introspection and foster a deeper understanding of one's place in the universe.
Incorporating martial arts into your spiritual journey not only enhances self-mastery but also empowers you to live a life of integrity, confidence, and purpose. This unique combination of physical, mental, and emotional training can be a transformative force in your quest for self-awareness and fulfillment.
Who are we
Mary Helen Schuft
Mary is currently training under Guru Michael Duffy, working toward her instructorship certification in Filipino Martial Arts as a Level 3 Arnis de Sala (ADS) Associate. She brings a unique lens to her training as a Senior Ritual Master, Healer, and Teacher with the Modern Mystery School, and as an NANP Board-Certified Holistic Nutritionist with 15+ years of experience in sports nutrition, detoxing, and cleansing.
Mary integrates the discipline of stick and knife work, trapping, and striking fundamentals with the same principles of presence and self-mastery she teaches through her healing practice — strength built through regulation, discipline, and intentional support. She is also Co-Owner of Trident Peptide Technologies and a Licensed Cosmetologist.
Senior Ritual Master, Healer & Teacher with the Modern Mystery school
NANP Board-Certified Holistic Nutritionist (15 + Years experience in Sports Nutrition, Detoxing & Cleansing)
Co-Owner of Trident Peptide Technologies
Arnis de Sala (ADS) Level 3 Associate, training under Guru Michael Duffy
Licensed cosmetologist
Michael James Duffy
Protective Security Specialist | Firearms & Tactical Instructor | Behavioral Assessment Expert
Michael James Duffy is a seasoned security professional and tactical instructor with over two decades of experience spanning high-threat protective operations, firearms instruction, behavioral assessment, and executive protection. His expertise has been forged through extensive training with elite organizations—including Blackwater Training in Mount Carroll—and hands-on leadership roles in both private security and high-profile protective details. Michael has served as a Protective Agent and Security Consultant across a wide range of assignments, including federal conferences, gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns, international diplomatic advance teams, and anti-human trafficking operations. He has provided protection for diplomats, national authors, and high-net-worth individuals, and worked closely with the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota, where he led red-team operations, event security, and protective details for community leaders. As a firearms and combatives instructor, Michael is NRA and USCCA certified, specializing in Close Quarters Battle (CQB), home defense, and emotional state management under stress. He brings unique expertise in behavioral and nonverbal communication, teaching others how to assess threats and maintain composure in high-pressure environments. In addition, his extensive martial arts background—holding a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt and mastery in Filipino Kali, JKD, Wing Chun, wrestling, Muay Thai, and boxing—enables him to integrate modern combatives into real-world protective training. His education in psychology, sociology, and speech communication further complements his ability to analyze human behavior, manage emotional states, and build effective protective strategies. Michael is also experienced in specialized tactical skills including tactical rappelling, fast rope insertion, scuba diving, and aviation. Throughout his career, Michael has built a reputation for professionalism, adaptability and discretion in high-stakes environments. He continues to serve as a trusted consultant, instructor, and protective agent for organizations, individuals, and government agencies seeking unmatched expertise in personal and event security.
Inosanto Kali/JKD: Filipino Martial Arts Instructor (20+ Years Experience)
BJJ Brown Belt
Certified Nutrition Coach PN1
CPT: USAW, CHEK Institute, NASM, FMS, HKC
Board Certified Protective Agent: Texas, MN.
Co-Owner of Trident Peptide Technologies
Workshop Opportunities
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A One-Day Martial Arts Workshop
Join us for a transformative experience with a full day of specialized martial arts training designed to elevate your skills, regardless of your team's current level. This intense 7-hour session will focus on techniques, strategy, and personal development through a holistic approach that emphasizes self-awareness and commitment.
In this session, we will delve into key aspects of Filipino Martial Arts (FMA), focusing on stick and knife work, trapping techniques, Wing Chun fundamentals, Panatukan (Filipino boxing), and various striking methods.
FMA Stick Work
Basics of Weapon Handling: Learn the foundational grips, stances, and footwork necessary for effective stick fighting.
Drills and Techniques: Practice solo and partner drills that incorporate strikes, blocks, and defensive maneuvers with a focus on fluidity and speed.
FMA Knife Work
Understanding Edged Weapons: Explore the principles of blade usage, including grip, angles of attack, and the importance of distance.
Applications and Sparring: Engage in controlled drills and scenarios that emphasize real-life applications of knife techniques in self-defense situations.
Trapping Techniques
Wing Chun Principles: Study the trapping elements of Wing Chun, including techniques for closing the distance, controlling an opponent’s limbs, and transitioning to follow-up strikes.
Integration with FMA: Learn how to integrate trapping techniques from Wing Chun into traditional FMA practices for a holistic approach to combat.
Panatukan (Filipino Boxing)
Striking Fundamentals: Focus on the key strikes used in Panatukan, including punches, elbows, and open-hand techniques.
Combative Flow: Practice combinations that incorporate both hand and foot strikes, emphasizing timing, rhythm, and fluid movement.
Striking Techniques
Kicking and Footwork: Analyze various kicking techniques used in FMA and their application within striking arts. Work on footwork to enhance mobility and positioning during strikes.
Power Generation: Understand the mechanics of generating power from different parts of the body for more effective striking.
What to Expect:
Customized Training: Tailored drills and techniques based on your team's skill level from WOL.
Mastery Focus: Attention to personal growth and mastery in martial arts.
Self-Awareness: Exploration of self through rigorous practice and reflection.
Collaborative Environment: Foster teamwork and camaraderie within your group.
Program Details
Duration: 7 hours
Cost: $150.0.00 per student
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DAY 1:
Session 1: Martial Arts & Nutrition Connection
Explore the dynamic relationship between physical strength and mental clarity through proper nutrition. Understand how fueling your body with the right nutrients enhances performance, improves technique execution, and promotes faster recovery.
Session 2: Hydration Blueprint
Delve into the importance of hydration. Learn to identify what’s in your water and how it influences your stamina and overall wellness. This session includes practical tips for maintaining optimal hydration tailored to your training regime.
Session 3: Strength Training for Warriors
Engage in primal movement and resistance training, essential components for modern warriors. This session focuses on developing functional strength and its application in various martial arts techniques, enhancing both power and agility in combat scenarios.
Session 4: Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) Stick & knife work, Trapping/Wing Chun/Panatukan and more!
Learn the foundational elements of Filipino Martial Arts, including footwork and the use of weapons. This segment welcomes participants of all skill levels, offering adaptable striking and defensive techniques to build a strong skill set.
Evening Workshop: Mindful Eating & Stress Management
Discover how nutrition and supplementation can impact your focus, anxiety levels, and emotional stability. Techniques will be shared to practice mindful eating, alongside stress management exercises relevant to the mental demands of martial arts.
Day 2: Advanced Techniques and Peak Performance
Session 5: Detoxing for Peak Performance
Engage in discussions and exercises focused on detoxing. Understand the role of toxins in the body and learn methods to enhance energy, recovery, and overall health through dietary choices and lifestyle adjustments.
Session 6: Combat & Self-Defense Principles
Put your training to the test with hands-on techniques in empty-hand combat, grappling, and striking. This interactive session focuses on practical self-defense principles that make you confident in various combat scenarios.
Program Details:
Duration: Two days, 7 hours each
Cost:
🛡️ $200.00
💥 Your Investment in Mastery
Tiered Pricing (per person):
🔹 1–41 participants: $200.00
🔹 41+ participants: $180.00
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3-Day Martial Arts Workshop
Filipino Martial Arts | Warrior Training | Holistic Empowerment
This immersive 3-day experience is for those ready to move beyond theory and into action—strengthening body, mind, and spirit through the lens of martial discipline.
Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) will be taught and applied throughout the entire training, serving as the backbone of the warrior path you’re walking.
Whether you’re new to FMA or continuing your journey, this workshop will ground you in the principles of movement, strategy, and energy that have empowered warriors for generations.
🔹 Day 1: Harmonizing Energies Through Martial Arts
We begin by exploring the balance of divine masculine and feminine energies, not just in concept—but in the body. Through Filipino Martial Arts drills and movement, you’ll start to physically embody these principles and awaken deeper levels of presence, confidence, and control.
Focus Areas:
Embodying yin and yang through FMA movement
Flow drills, weapon basics, and martial structure
Cultivating awareness and energetic balance through action
As above, so below. As within, so without.
You’ll begin to see how your movements reflect your inner world—and how shifting one changes the other.
🔹 Day 2: Food, Emotions & Martial Integration
On Day 2, we explore how food, emotion, and energy are deeply connected—and how that impacts your training, your healing, and your life.
You’ll learn how to nourish your body like a warrior, and how poor food choices disrupt not just performance, but focus and emotional clarity.
The second half of the day brings you back to the mat. We return to Filipino Martial Arts to apply what you learned on Day 1, refining technique, building muscle memory, and deepening your connection to the movements.
Focus Areas:
Food as fuel for your nervous system, mood, and power
Connecting martial movement to organ health and energy flow
Technique repetition for embodied skill and confidence
Discipline in what you consume is discipline in how you move.
Day 2 forges the body-mind connection that transforms your entire approach to life.
🔹 Day 3: Embody the Warrior
The final day is your personal rite of passage.
After morning integration and martial application, you’ll choose one of three transformative experiences to lock in the warrior within:
⚔️ Option 1: Group Strength Training — Power in the Flesh
Channel everything you’ve learned into your body. This isn’t about lifting weights—it’s about building a vessel strong enough to carry your purpose.
Develop power that supports martial movement
Cultivate grit, discipline, and grounded energy
Train the body to remain strong and steady under pressure
Your body becomes the temple. Your mind, the blade. Your spirit, the fire.
🌀 Option 2: Sound Bowl Healing — The Warrior’s Reset with Angie Moita
After all you’ve moved through, it’s time to receive. Sound bowl healing allows the nervous system to integrate everything you’ve learned—restoring harmony so you can move forward with peace and clarity.
Release emotional tension and energetic blockages
Enter a deep state of rest and recalibration
Anchor in your transformation at the cellular level
The warrior who knows how to surrender is the one who truly lasts.
🔫 Option 3: Pistol Training — Precision Under Pressure
Sharpen your focus, elevate your awareness, and step into the protector archetype. This live pistol training is an invitation to claim calm and clarity in moments of intensity.
Learn safety, handling, and real-world control
Practice drawing, aiming, and breath-based shooting
Strengthen tactical presence and response
You don’t need perfection—you need presence.
Note: Training is adapted to all skill levels and follows strict safety protocols.
Program Details:
Duration: Two days, 7 hours each
Cost:
🛡️ $250.00
💥 Your Investment in Mastery
Tiered Pricing (per person):
🔹 1–40 participants: $250.00
🔹 41+ participants: $225.00
Filipino martial arts is a practice rooted in presence, efficiency, and adaptability. Through weapon-based and unarmed techniques, you'll develop body awareness and nervous system resilience while building genuine confidence and power. Our workshops integrate energy work throughout, so you're training not just your physical body but your entire being. Whether you're drawn to a foundational intensive or a deep multi-day immersion, you'll leave with practical skills and a shifted relationship to your own capability.
Includes:
15+ hours of expert-led martial arts and integration sessions
Filipino Martial Arts training woven through all three days
Holistic tools, guidance, and materials for lifelong application
A transformational environment rooted in tradition and purpose
This isn’t just a workshop—it’s a warrior’s journey.
Come prepared to move, sweat, reflect, and rise.
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Student Reviews
Training with Mike and Mary was empowering, eye-opening, fun!, and really met me where I am at. I have boxing and yoga experience and am feeling more ready to step into Warriors of Light training with their support. They created such a memorable environment for our local (RM) team, too - I am positive we all left wanting and excited for more. Mary’s wisdom of purifying the body has been a game-changer in my life, too. I am so grateful!
- Kristina Nesse
I participated in a Martial Arts team building workshop with Mary and Mike last winter. The workshop was notable for being engaging and relevant. I went into the session with some trepidation as I’m not active in an organized fitness routine and have done very little with martial arts. Mike and Mary did an amazing job of integrating a wide range of experience. It felt accessible to me and comments made by friends with much greater experience indicated they received significant benefit from the class as well. It was fun! I highest recommend the Martial Arts team building workshop as a way to learn valuable skills, grow as a community and have a good time doing it!
-Sharon Trahan
I organized a martial arts training with Mike Duffy as a team-building workshop for our local Ritual Masters, inspired by the idea of keeping the warrior spirit alive—challenging ourselves physically while also growing in deeper, more meaningful ways.
The experience far exceeded expectations, and Mike’s depth of experience was obvious. He lives and breathes this work. We practiced martial arts exercises that were familiar from WOL (which was a good review), and we also went through an exercise that was about recognizing what's going on with someone by their facial expressions and energy. It was a really cool and insightful exercise about how we project our energy as we move through the world. I had major insights into situational awareness that I hadn't thought about before.
By the end, the whole team was fired up and asking, “When can we do this again?”We only scratched the surface in that four-hour session, and I’m genuinely looking forward to what future trainings with Mike & Mary will bring.
-Genevieve Wachuka
I really enjoyed the workshop. It was a good physical workout, but I also gained some new skills. And I loved that Mike was able to give everyone personalized attention to details that would improve their skills and abilities.
— KatherineI signed up feeling a little nervous not having any prior martial arts experience and I walked out confident and wanting more! Michael and Mary are amazing instructors, they really take their time to help you understand what it is that you’re learning. This training also helped me connect a few dots not only physically but also energetically which I was not expecting. I’m already looking forward to the next training!
— Chad 
“Every detail was thoughtfully executed. We're thrilled with the outcome.”
— Former Customer