Il Metodo Nei Dan

The method developed by the Nei Dan School applies to no specific physical discipline, nor is it intended to develop a particular technique: rather it actives skills, releases latent potential, and allows the forces and energies we all possess naturally and which every practitioner requires, regardless of their chosen martial art or discipline, to emerge.

The main aspect of this approach is a “Copernican Revolution” in teaching: it places the artist and not the art itself at its centre. This repositioning not only changes the teacher-student relationship, but requires innovative teaching capable of transforming the artist from a simple practitioner into the creator of the art itself. Indeed, if the student chooses the teacher and not vice versa, it must be borne in mind that in transmission there is no submission but only different positions, defined by the roles themselves, which allow the teaching to flow naturally from teacher to student.

In following these principles, the Nei Dan Method does not seek to take control of a student’s development, but instead promote the conditions to allow their full potential to emerge, providing the tools to allow them to flourish in a martial art or Yoga through a flexible, modular method and allowing a practice of self-evolution and self-teaching to thrive as students “learn to learn”.

Two platforms, functioning in tandem, intertwine hierarchically: one systematic-methodological, the other procedural-operational. Side by side with the technical teaching of the chosen style, this didactic approach encompasses explanation of the laws and principles that govern the body, mind and vital energy (qi), as well as a specific work on psychophysical and energetic qualities essential to various martial arts or Yoga (energy and internal strength, alignment and structural connection, grounding and centring, power and elasticity, martial awareness and spirit).

Read this article by Master Flavio Daniele to learn more about the Nei Dan Method.

Il Metodo Nei Dan

The method developed by the Nei Dan School applies to no specific physical discipline, nor is it intended to develop a particular technique: rather it actives skills, releases latent potential, and allows the forces and energies we all possess naturally and which every practitioner requires, regardless of their chosen martial art or discipline, to emerge.

The main aspect of this approach is a “Copernican Revolution” in teaching: it places the artist and not the art itself at its centre. This repositioning not only changes the teacher-student relationship, but requires innovative teaching capable of transforming the artist from a simple practitioner into the creator of the art itself. Indeed, if the student chooses the teacher and not vice versa, it must be borne in mind that in transmission there is no submission but only different positions, defined by the roles themselves, which allow the teaching to flow naturally from teacher to student.

In following these principles, the Nei Dan Method does not seek to take control of a student’s development, but instead promote the conditions to allow their full potential to emerge, providing the tools to allow them to flourish in a martial art or Yoga through a flexible, modular method and allowing a practice of self-evolution and self-teaching to thrive as students “learn to learn”.

Two platforms, functioning in tandem, intertwine hierarchically: one systematic-methodological, the other procedural-operational. Side by side with the technical teaching of the chosen style, this didactic approach encompasses explanation of the laws and principles that govern the body, mind and vital energy (qi), as well as a specific work on psychophysical and energetic qualities essential to various martial arts or Yoga (energy and internal strength, alignment and structural connection, grounding and centring, power and elasticity, martial awareness and spirit).

Read this article by Master Flavio Daniele to learn more about the Nei Dan Method.