Ancient Principles. Modern Comprehension.

Explore books on Yang Style Taijiquan, internal martial arts, traditional Asian practices, and bodywork that preserve time-honored principles while presenting them through modern terminology, anatomy, body mechanics, and practical methods of study.

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Yang Taijiquan Student Canon

A four-volume study of the progressive development of internal skill—from foundation through transmission, transformation, and expression.

ESOMASSAGE

Integrative Bodywork — Developed With Tai Chi Principles.

Knowledge Preserved Through Practice

ESOMA Press publishes works developed through sustained practice, teaching, and investigation.

Information tells the reader what exists. Teaching helps the reader understand how it becomes possible.

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Descriptions can tell you what a book contains. Selected passages allow you to experience how the book actually teaches.

What Others Are Saying

Yang Taijiquan Student Canon – Volume I – Foundations of Internal Skill offers a complete and technical exploration of how internal power is generated through precise body mechanics, structural alignment, and progressive training methods.
— Robert H. Bowles, 10th Dan, Hanshi

I had decided this was to be the last time I renewed my license. I was SO burned out and had lost my love for massage. Esomassage has restored that, and more.
— Therapist who studied Esomassage

About Joe Martin

Joe Martin’s work grows from more than six decades of martial arts study and a continuing investigation into movement, internal organization, and the human body.

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