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Retreat “Come Back Into Your Strength”, 21 to 28 November 2026. Introductory price until 15 October. To the retreat

Sifu Tanja Fenz

Find your ground.
Live your life.

Feel the ground, trust your inner voice, walk your path with strength.

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One to one, in a group, for teams and companies

Just for you

Private sessions in Wu Taiji, Rooted Strength, self-assertion and martial arts, tailored entirely to you and your pace. In the studio, outdoors in nature or at your place.

Private sessions

In a group

Wu Taiji in small groups, courses on Madeira and retreats where you take time for yourself and find your way back into your strength together with others.

Courses Retreats

For teams and companies

Programmes for team building, stress resilience, de-escalation and self-assertion, proven in hospitals, companies, schools and social institutions. Also as a team retreat on Madeira.

Companies
Retreat group on a meadow above the cliffs of Madeira

Retreat on Madeira

Come Back Into Your Strength

Eight days in a private quinta above Funchal, with a view all the way to the sea. Six places, a private chef, excursions into the island’s nature and plenty of space to feel again what you want.

  • 21 to 28 November 2026
  • Introductory price until 15 October
  • Registration closes 30 October
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Rooted Strength

Rooted strength

Rooted Strength begins in the body. You ground yourself, connect with yourself and then with others. From there grow posture, voice and the strength to protect yourself.

01

Rooting

02

Connecting

03

Standing and speaking

04

Protecting and anchoring

More about the method
Portrait of Sifu Tanja Fenz in the evening light on Madeira

Sifu Tanja Fenz

I have been a martial artist for more than twenty years, a Sifu in the direct lineage of Grandmaster Prof. Keith R. Kernspecht. I have run three martial arts centres in Göttingen, trained more than twenty instructors and accompanied people in hospitals, companies, schools and social institutions. Today I live on Madeira with my two sons. I teach nothing I have only read about. I have needed every part of it myself.

My story

Where I have taught and accompanied people

University Medical Center GöttingenSartoriusHealth insurer (burnout courses) Special needs schools to grammar schoolsKindergartensYouth welfare Obernjesa Victim support South Lower SaxonySecurity staff of a psychiatric hospitalWork with refugeesPowerfrauen Göttingen

What is growing right now

Online course Rooted Strength

The four phases of the method, prepared so that you can practise them from anywhere.

Retreats 2027

New dates on Madeira, then also in English.

Monthly courses

One morning a month on Madeira, for arriving, feeling and strengthening.

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