HOW THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE TRANSFORMED THEIR BODIES AND WAYS OF BEING
A Year-Long Integrated Body Consciousness Program
DEEPEN CONSCIOUSNESS & MASTER PHYSICAL SKILL
Cheng Hsin is designed to move people toward a more “real,” direct, and present experience of self and life. Using open investigation, contemplation, personal experimentation, and powerful questioning we pursue transformation, effectiveness, and a direct experience of the nature of Being.
“Cut through the fantasies that accompany all teachings and go after and eradicate every belief that you can possibly identify. Set out to directly and authentically experience for yourself what is true in the world”
— Peter Ralston
What this education consists of and why this is Powerful and Effective
Since most people are unable to come and do a workshop and do the body consciousness within a retreat, now you have access to a complete year-long education to help you integrate the Principles of an Effective and Effortless Body-Being, also known as Zen Body-Being / Cheng Hsin Body-Being.
This work is the refinement of decades of investigation into what really allows people to transform their body-being experience and the way they relate to their own bodies.
And also, now you also have access to LIVE Zoom sessions and an online community to assist you towards this endeavour.
Discover the physical education you wish you had learned during school. Materials designed to help you create an experience of effortlessness and effectiveness of how you move, how you interact with objects around you and assist you to make continuous progress for the rest of your life, not just 20-30 minutes a day during some practice such as Tai Chi, Yoga, Pilates or Zen meditation, but in everything you do. This work is empowering, whether you are a businessperson, gym trainer, dancer or cyclist, you are a body. If form is like the written word, this is the “grammar and calligraphy” that you never knew you wanted to know and embody.
Tai Chi Body-Mind 6 Week Long Ecourse
Engage deeply with 6 detailed modules that nurture your body, mind, and spirit for lasting balance and health that you can integrate in your Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates, martial arts or other body related practices including every day movement.
Zen Body-Being 40 Weekly Lessons
40 weekly lessons to guide towards an experience of effortlessness and effectivenesss that build perfectely on the previous ecourse. This allows for profound integration and comes with highly intelligent distinctions in body movement.
The Cheng Hsin Body-Being Workshops
Originally crafted for the purpose of enhancing high-level martial skills, it can be applied to any other physical activity or sport, and is useful for simply improving one’s overall bodily experience.
Learn How To Relate and Interact With Objects Effortlessly
While this work is not necessarily about choreography, you’ll also have access to a class of Cheng Hsin Tai Chi Movements and Cheng Hsin Tai Chi Sword that are a reflection of the principles in movement.
Skool Community and Weekly Zoom LIVE Sessions
The sessions are run by Brendan Lea and other instructors. Brendan trained thousands of hours on a mat and lived at the Cheng Hsin centre for over 20 years, and he has worked with hundreds of people as a personal life coach, consciousness instructor and martial arts teacher.
A year-long complete education to allow your nervous system to recalibrate and integrate while you live life
More about this kind of work and The Principles of an Effortless and Effective Body-Being
Living effectively starts with your body. All tension you feel? It’s tension you’re creating. The secret isn’t forcing change—it’s unlearning old habits and aligning with principles that allow ease and effectiveness.
Peter has already discovered these principles—like Newton discovering gravity. Your job is simple: test them for yourself. Belief alone won’t change a thing.
This year-long program guides you step by step. Instead of cramming a “Bible of Physical Education” in a week, you’ll explore a new lesson each week, discovering how these principles manifest in your own body.
Body Consciousness teaches you to inhabit your body fully, increase awareness, and develop abilities most people never experience. Your body is the source of life, the gateway to relationships, emotions, and the world around you.
Applying consciousness to your experience of the body
Cheng Hsin is pursued through a study of the body. We study its design, function, movement, awareness; and the pursuit of an effortlessly effective, fully functional and integrated body-being.
We work on learning, training and incorporating the Principles of an Effortlessly Effective Body-Being, the principles upon which effective use of the body depends.
You will learn how to use the body more effectively and effortlessly, as well as more powerfully. You will develop skills such as being able to feel and connect with another’s whole body, or any object. You will explore how the mind can create many skills and powers that most people don’t have. You’ll learn about correct structure, and the principles that make a huge difference in both body and mind. You will become more aware of your environment, three-dimensions, and increase your perceptive faculties. You will improve your level of sensitivity, awareness, enhance and enlivening your nervous
This work is as real as it gets.
Peter Ralston won the 1978 World Championship of Full-Contact Martial Arts in Taiwan, becoming the first non-Asian to achieve this. He credited his success to applying internal martial principles—relaxation, sensitivity, effortless power, and connection—drawn from Tai Chi and related arts.
Although he didn’t fight in a traditional Tai Chi style, judges and observers described his movement as “Tai Chi-like” for its relaxed, fluid, and non-resistant quality.
In the history of martial arts, no one is clearly known to have surpassed Ralston in demonstrating internal principles in real full-contact combat. Many have excelled in fighting or in internal practice, but he uniquely combined both into a single, effective approach.
Before his first match, a Korean opponent reportedly withdrew after watching Ralston warm up, intimidated by his effortless yet powerful presence—a moment that captured how distinct his mastery truly was.
Comprehensive Learning Modules
Four detailed modules guide your holistic wellness journey towards an effortless and effective body-being.
Additional Free Educational Content
Hundreds of videos, written content and podcasts with Peter answering all kinds of questions to clear the path and cut through unnecessary suffering and fantasy available either on the Cheng Hsin website, YouTube channels, or other online sources.
Year-Long Support via the Skool Weekly Sessions
Continuous guidance ensures lasting physical and self-growth, designed to empower you in ways you haven’t thought possible.
Holistic Well-Being Focus
Integrate mind, body, and spirit for a complete, peaceful and powerful life.
I wanted to create an art based on fundamental observations of physics, perception, intent, impulse, and energy — an art that gears itself to meet any situation because it is founded on understandiI wanted to create an art based on fundamental observations of physics, perception, intent, impulse, and energy — an art that gears itself to meet any situation because it is founded on understanding the principles in which interaction takes place.
I wanted an art that would be adaptable and well-designed, forged through training and techniques but designed to teach something beyond the form.
The Art of Effortless Power is such an art. ~ Peter Ralston
What are People Saying About This Work?
Elizabeth Saetia
T’ai Chi Teacher, Mulhouse, France
Cheng Hsin has changed my life. I’m not afraid to be afraid anymore, wow! I can rely on the Cheng Hsin principles to teach myself what to do. In short, I’ve learned how to learn. Cheng Hsin’s consciousness work has changed my world around. I’m living more consciously than I ever had before and enjoying every bit of my life. Rather than being taught a whole new set of rules to live by, I was showed a set of tools and all I needed to do was to investigate, stay honest, contemplate and keep on going from there. The more I do, the more I learn and the deeper I go.
Dan Millman
Author, “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” – USA
True innovators are, by definition, ahead of their time. Therefore, they remain largely unrecognised, except by a few. How many of us wished we had met Bruce Lee, sat in a session with Carl Jung, or walked around Walden pond with Thoreau? Too late for that, but not too late to take notice of Peter Ralston. His creativity, commitment, and clarity shine through his teachings as he articulates higher principles based on direct experience and piercing insight. A superlative martial artist and caring teacher, he has been to the mountaintop and bathed in the underground spring of Being. His insights speak to us all.
David Spivak
Ph.D. Research Scientist in Mathematics at MIT, Boston
Ralston is unparalleled in his ability to clearly articulate both the key questions to contemplate and the life-changing insights one can gain from doing so. I’ve learned more from him than any other author.
Amy Rattenbury
Acupuncturist, Homer, Alaska
I also wanted to acknowledge you and your work, and sharing this remarkable body of knowledge with the world through your workshops, classes, and books. Your work has meant so much to me since first being introduced to Cheng Hsin through Ethan and Brendan. This week uncovered many more realisations about what I’ve been up to, how I’m doing it, and the keys to experiencing something different. There’s nothing like your work and no other teacher that I’ve come across that offers the possibility to understand what’s truly going on and what can be. Thank you so much! Amy
Lynn Exley
The Mindful Golfer
Hi Peter, Hope you are well. I am re-reading both your books, The Book of Not Knowing and Zen Body-Being, I have done so many times now. It feels like coming home although at the same time brand new. So many new insights land each time. You might remember I’m working hard on my golf swing and you sent a very helpful email re: feeling-awareness. Golf is my Abdul’s camel and I love it. Whilst exploring, in a state of relaxed openness, all of a sudden there it was relaxation whilst pushing into ground. A complete game changer. I guess it was always already there but no doubt I wasn’t sufficiently relaxed. It feels amazing, so effortless and a big jump in club head speed. I had a similar experience yesterday with my Strength and Conditioning training—which I started in lockdown so I’m 9 months in. I relaxed back into a dumbbell dead lift pushed into the ground and the weights seemed to almost lift themselves, 44kg personal best. So glad I turned to your books again to facilitate this expedition in the unknown. Thank you. Merry Christmas! 🎄
Scott Martin
Experimental Test Pilot, South Carolina, USA
Hi Peter, Thank you again for another opportunity to contemplate, in person, with your particular teaching. Nowhere else is the truth emphasized as you do. In any case, nothing beats getting off the grid for intense contemplation. Brendan was a rock star again, while conducting the IEW workshop. He makes the whole event run like clockwork, allowing us to stay focused. Sara is a nice addition to the staff, too. As far as who I am, I continue to contemplate it. You gave me a hint on day four: don’t think in terms of here, or there. I immediately started thinking too much, again, and didn’t notice that location is irrelevant to experience me. Your tenth man story hit me differently today. It occurred to me that I can’t find anything other than a direct experience of who I am. I started laughing, as if I were reacting to a trick question. No matter how small, or large, I make my awareness, it’s me doing it. Thank you for teaching. Nothing is more important than this work. z
Oksana Koriakova
Marketing Maverick, Sydnew, NSW, Australia
It’s like you discovered the cure for cancer but nobody knows about it.
This is a Cohort-Based Offer – Less than 50 Offers Like This Available.
This is the first time we have allowed such a large number of new students to enter the community and buy this education at such a huge discount. Anyone who will not be able to buy this education now due to the limited spots will be added to a waiting list and will be notified when the next cohort is available. It is very unlikely that we will allow for such a low price, as people tend to take this kind of work more seriously when they pay more. We encourage people to take this work with the intention to dedicate enough attention so these principles show up in their experience of a body and reality, and not just on the materials that you receive and watch. It’s hard not to do it. Doing it is easy. After all, it’s called an Effective and Effortless Body-Being.
Life Time Access To These Materials
You will have access to these materials for the rest of your life. The nature of this work is infinite by design. It is recommended that you do it at least twice, and you’ll find that you’ll see and learn new things each time, things that you did not perceive before, and your experience will be so much more empowered when you revisit these materials.
Education That You Can Explore Further
Not only that you actually get your body and nervous system aligned with the principles of an Effective and Effortless body, and you have access to the unmatched books on what it means to be a body, such as Zen Body-Being, and The Principles Of Effortless Power that allow for a deeper study, but you also can go further and participate in martial arts and phisical skill if you want to take this education especially into the martial domain.
This education has been sold for over a decade at a total price of $838, not to mention the group mentoring sessions that are now available for those actually interested in this kind of work.
For the first time, available at a discounted price of over 76%, resulting in $197.
The last online workshop training was completely sold out. Hurry up and buy it before all 50 spots are taken.
A great companion in this work.
This book is a guide on how to use your body effectively and relate to objects and people, drawing from a martial arts perspective. It focuses on creating a state of mental control, enhanced feeling-awareness, and correct structural alignment.
This book can also be bought as an audiobook and an ebook. In some places, you’ll be able to find it in the local library to borrow it temporarily.
This book was written based on the Principles of Effortless Power in a way that people could understand it better. The principles haven’t changed, for they are universal and as real as the principle of gravity; just the communication has been adapted for a larger audience.
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