Cheng Hsin Holland Camp 2026
with Brendan Lea
Martial Arts & Consciousness Workshops
14 – 28 August | 2025 in Nijmegen (NL)
and demonstration on Friday evening 14 August
For over three decades Peter Ralston has offered yearly workshops at the Cheng Hsin Holland Camp and he deeply inspired thousands of people in the martial and consciousness communities around Europe. Now, in 2026 we welcome his top student Brendan Lea from the USA for the third time to facilitate the Cheng Hsin Holland Camp. You are warmly invited to join in!
Workshops and demonstration
Here is an overview of our two week schedule for this years Cheng Hsin Holland Camp.
Martial Arts Demonstration
14 August
We’ll start this year’s Camp with a Martial Arts demonstration on Friday evening (19.00 – 20.30). It’s open to visitors and anyone interested. Of course you are also most welcome to invite your friends and family. And it’s for free!
Art of Effortless Power Workshop
14 - 20 August
This is a two (weekend) or six day long workshop in which you will deeply explore the principles that found body design and function, effortless power and skilful physical interaction. All teachings will be based on understanding and training principles rather than following dogma and routines.
The Art of Effortless Power is a dynamic art with many techniques, footwork, and lots of internal work on relaxation, feeling awareness, balance and freeing up ineffective mental patterns. You will be questioning assumptions, overcoming beliefs and transforming how to use your body. It is a joyful learning experience.
The workshop has a highly intensive and structured format. You will be challenged to change your own experience towards that of being effective whilst remaining totally relaxed and calm. We will be working from the ground up. With props, techniques, games and exercises which you can take into your own art to help you deepen your work. Please note that the evenings of San Shou are included in this workshop.
San Shou Workshop
15 - 20 August
This five evening workshop is focused on learning the San Shou form which is a two person set of movements. Every technique done by one person is followed by a counter of the other, and this continues throughout the whole set. You will not only learn a choreographed set of movements but you will also be training every martial techniques in a functional way with a partner.
Boxing Workshop
20-22 August
Cheng Hsin boxing arts are unmatched in their depth of intelligence and level of understanding about the nature of effective interaction. You will learn to develop effortless striking, invincible defences and strategic understanding bs rarely visited domains of human mind and perception, not to mention physics and physiology. This workshop starts on Thursday evening.
Freedom, Power and Effectiveness
a practical consciousness workshop
22-28 August
Join us for six days of consciousness work designed to help you experience being free, powerful, and effective in life. Together we will use our ability to investigate honestly and uncover principles and dynamics you can use in your life.
Such as:
Honesty – Insight – Effectiveness – Non-Judgment
Learning – Listening – Empowerment – and more
You will learn how to make a shift and experience a new world of possibility. This will have a profound impact on your daily life, relationships, and quality of living.
About Consciousness Work
Peter Ralston (The Founder) has spent decades working hard using contemplation to plumb the depths of the nature of reality. Everything from the absolute truth, to the creation of self, to understanding the nature of suffering and everything in between. His efforts have yielded a body of work and a spirit of open investigation and discovery that empower the practitioner to make leaps of experiential insight and grasp new realities.
To learn more about the scope of Consciousness work we recommend you read:
The Book of Not Knowing
Ending Unnecessary Suffering
The Art of Mastery
Brendan Lea
Brendan has steadily studied with and has virtually lived with Peter Ralston for the last 16 years. He has done every apprenticeship program (going on eight), and lives at the Center and still studies. He has been training in facilitation and assisting Ralston as a facilitator in his consciousness workshops for years. He also runs his own workshops in cities in the US and other countries.
His commitment to study and training has created a great awareness and understanding of the dynamics of mind and body as they apply to effective interaction. Through years of intense contemplation he has also developed a deep understanding of self, life, and reality. This allows him to powerfully facilitate others in having the breakthroughs and insights necessary to expand their own consciousness and create new skills.
Venue
Our venue ‘Groepsaccommodatie De Elegast’ is beautifully located on a woody hill near Nijmegen This former boarding school now offers one person cubicle bedrooms with running water. Showers and toilets are on the corridors. Our hosts Karin and Paul will serve you excellent vegetarian meals.
For more information see: www.elegast-groepsaccommodatie.nl
Costs
Here is an overview of all workshop costs. Make sure to note they all include costs for tuition and accommodation. For some workshops the accommodation costs have options. The first is full lodging (including sleeping, meals and mat fee) at €85 per day. The second is meals and mat fee for €60 per day. And the third is only a mat fee for €25 per day. The Early Bird discount is on tuition costs only. We offer this Early Bird if you register before May 1st!
Freedom, Power and Effectiveness workshop ONLINE!
We’re also offering the possibility to follow this consciousness workshop online. You ’re invited to join the six day workshop with Brendan Lea live from your location on ZOOM. The workshop starts Saterday evening 22 August and finishes Thursday afternoon 28 August.
- Make sure you are able to follow the entire schedule of the event while you are in a distraction free environment
- Costs for the online Practical Wisdom workshop on ZOOM are € 795,-
- Contact Rob van Ham at info@chenghsin.nl for more information, questions and registration
Registration
- Sign up by sending in the registration form below. Make sure to indicate the workshop(s) you wish to attend and also indicate your choice of accommodation.
- If you sign up before 1 May 2026 you will receive the Early Bird discount!
- After signing up you will receive a preparation letter with general information on payments, lodging, route description, workshop conditions and other requirements.
Registration form
Contact
In case you have any questions regarding the registration or the Cheng Hsin Holland Camp in general please contact:
Rob van Ham
Grotestraat 40
6511 VD Nijmegen
the Netherlands
0031 6 2900 8785
info@chenghsin.nl
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