Ancient wisdom isn't behind us 🌿

In Filipino Martial Arts, strength is structure, stamina, and endurance. It grounds us like the Earth: steady, rooted, and resilient.

But strength is more than muscle. It’s how you sustain yourself through pressure, how you endure through challenge, and how you rise when the weight of history feels heavy.

Because for many of us, that weight is real. The body carries not only personal stress, but the imprints of generational survival and adaptation. And yet—just as the Earth regenerates after storms—our bodies are built to adapt, to rebuild, to reclaim their power.

This is the heart of my work with the Chrysalis Kali Collective. We don’t come here just to “get fit” or master a technique. We come to reclaim the body as a home for spirit—a place where ancestral strength lives, where belonging takes root, and where healing can include falling apart—and rising more whole.

The warrior path is not about survival alone—it’s about renewal, homecoming, and reclaiming the scattered parts of who you are.

Filipino Martial Arts has never been frozen in time. It adapts with each generation—a living archive expressed through the bodies that carry it.

Ancient wisdom isn’t behind us—it moves through us, taking shape in how we meet today’s world. The lessons passed down by our ancestors aren’t relics to preserve on a shelf; they are living practices, carried into the choices we make, the bodies we inhabit, and the challenges we face every day.

If you missed my first You Are Elemental masterclass, I’m offering it again—for the last time this year.

🌿Join me live on Tuesday, September 16 at 6:30 PM EDT for You Are Elemental—a free masterclass for Filipinx folks ready to reclaim strength, resilience, and belonging through movement.

👉🏽Reserve Your Spot Here

💛🙏🏽⚔️,

Guro Kristen