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At the heart of our academy is a deep and immersive curriculum in Internal Wing Chun. This refined system combines rooted internal development, meditative precision, and real-time instructor guidance. A complete digital pathway for those seeking authentic transformation in the internal martial arts.
About Curriculum
Online Curriculum Overview
- Weekly structured lessons with downloadable training resources for guided home practice
- Core foundational practice based on the 1700 ancient Single Set Siu Lin Tau
- Zhan Zhuang (Standing Like a Post) — standing meditation to develop structure (The Frame), awareness, and Hei (Qi) aquire real internal power
- Qi Gong, Nei Gong, through specialised cultivation routines designed to build authentic internal power, resilience, and longevity
- Deep training in Song (鬆) and Ting (聽) to cultivate true relaxation, sensitivity, and refined internal skill
- Internal and external frame development to elevate your Chi Sau and Lat Sao
- Cultivation of Hei (Qi) to develop REAL sticking skills to up your skill in Chi Sao and Gor Sao
- Ancient cultivation methods preserved from Wing Chun’s ancestral arts
- Cultivation of San, Yi, and Hei (Shen, Yi, Qi) — aligning spirit, intent, and energy into a unified internal system
This syllabus represents the practical training methods that are embedded throughout the course lessons, developing real internal power, structural integrity, and functional skill through continuous practice.
- Specialised Qi Gong and Nei Gong exercises
- Zhan Zhuang (Standing Practice) for structure, rooting, awareness, and cultivating Hei (Qi)
- The complete Ancient 1700 Single Set Siu Lin Tau as a core training method
- Dan Tian development exercises for functional real internal power
- Methods to sink the Qi naturally and make it ready for use in Chi Sao, Gor Sao, and Lat Sao
- Si Lik (internal force) exercises to develop connection and transmission of power
- Specialised exercises to develop Ting (listening energy)
- Foundational Snake Engine training for internal movement and powerful force generation
- Snake Engine striking for effective power at any distance with the same internal force
- Song (鬆) – deep relaxation without collapse
- Ting (聽) – advanced sensitivity and internal listening skill
- Detachment – freedom from tension, force, and fixation
- Internal and external frame building for stability and adaptability
- Correct use of intent (Yi) over muscular effort
- How internal power is generated, transferred, and expressed
- The relationship between structure, breath, and awareness
- Internal alignment for Chi Sau, Gor Sau, and Lat Sao progression
These principles are taught implicitly and explicitly within every lesson, guiding how all techniques, drills, and partner work are performed and understood.
This aspect of training unfolds naturally over time through consistent practice following the instructions given during the course, preserving traditional methods passed down through ancestral Wing Chun arts. It is woven into the daily cultivation
- Nei Dan (internal alchemical) training
- Cultivation of San, Yi, and Hei (Shen, Yi, Qi)
- Internal routines for health, longevity, and vitality
- Ancient cultivation methods from Wing Chun ancestor arts
- Refining awareness, spirit, and intent through internal practice
- Long-term progression from foundational work to advanced internal skill
- Build correct internal and external structure (The Frame) through Zhan Zhuang, stance work, and form training
- Transform Lik → Ging (brute force into refined internal force) and learn to generate power without muscular tension
- Cultivate Song (鬆) for deep relaxation without collapse and Ting (聽) for sensitivity and internal listening
- Develop Yi (intent) and align intent with structure, breath, and movement
- Practice the Ancient 1700 Single Set Siu Lin Tau progressively, understanding its internal logic and functional application
- Establish strong Dan Tian function and learn to sink, store, and mobilise Qi naturally
- Integrate Qi Gong and Nei Gong for resilience, longevity, and authentic internal power
- Learn Si Lik (testing force) to develop connection, transmission, and structural integrity
- Develop Snake Engine mechanics for internal movement and force generation
- Apply internal principles in Chi Sau, Gor Sau, and Lat Sau, improving real sticking, connecting, and issuing skills
- Progress from solo cultivation to structured partner work while maintaining internal quality tendon changing (Yi Jin Jing 易筋經)
- Fully integrate San, Yi, and Hei (Shen, Yi, Qi) into a unified internal system
- Maintain consistent internal structure and power across time, space, and energy (Heaven · Human · Earth)
- Refine Chiu Ging and advanced issuing methods with clarity, control, and precision
- Express effortless internal power through complete Snake Engine integration
- Master advanced Song and Ting, enabling true sticking, connecting, joining, and following
- Apply internal skills naturally in advanced Chi Sau, Gor Sau, and Kam Na, including seizing and controlling
- Deepen Nei Dan cultivation for long-term vitality, health, and longevity
- Internalise the Kuen Kuit (fist poems), understanding both their overt and hidden meanings
- Refine awareness, intent, and spirit beyond technique or form
- Learn how to guide, correct, and transmit internal training responsibly
- Bone marrow washing (Xi Sui Jing 洗髓經)
- Red Palm
The final Close Door teachings and the deepest immersion into the esoteric levels of the art. Training focuses on the energetic foundation—cultivating Shen, refining Yi, and harmonizing Qi—bringing internal understanding and external skill into unity.
Beyond mastery lies legacy. The Grandmaster level is not about learning more techniques, but about embodying the art and ensuring its survival for generations to come.
Inside the Eternal Spring Instiutute
At the Eternal Spring Institute, students are guided through a structured and progressive training system consisting of multiple levels: Apprentice, Intermediate, Advanced, Elite, and Disciple. Upon reaching the Disciple level, a student may be accepted as a closed-door disciple through the traditional Bai Si (tea ceremony), signifying a formal and deeply respected commitment to the lineage.
After approximately three to four years of dedicated and intensive training, eligible students may apply for private instruction and invitation-only closed group training. These advanced studies focus on refined internal development and long-term cultivation, deepening skill through advanced Qigong and Nei Gong methods, detailed study of the Kuen Kuit (fist poems) and their underlying principles, and practical applications intended to prepare students for responsible transmission and guidance of others.
Sifu Sergio’s Path
Sifu Sergio’s approach is shaped by decades of rigorous training across Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand, and Canada, blended with modern insights gained through sustained practice and deep personal exploration. His teaching method bridges classical tradition with contemporary understanding, allowing students to cultivate authentic internal strength, refined awareness, and lasting self-mastery in a way that is both traditional and highly functional.
Structure of the Program
The Eternal Spring Institute offers two complete and complementary internal Wing Chun training pathways, each grounded in the same core internal principles, while differing in scope, structure, and emphasis.
Internal Wing Chun Course
The Internal Wing Chun course is a fully developed and focused program, designed for Wing Chun practitioners from all lineages as well as committed beginners. This pathway places its primary emphasis on the Ancient 1700 Single Set Siu Lin Tau, using it as the central framework for developing structure, internal power, awareness, and functional application.
Through this form, students cultivate genuine internal skill, deepen their understanding of core principles, and experience meaningful internal development without needing to follow the full Apprentice-to-Disciple progression. This course offers a direct and effective entry into internal Wing Chun training while remaining compatible with other Wing Chun practices and life commitments.
Learn more about this course here:
1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun Curriculum
The 1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun Curriculum represents the complete traditional progression of internal Wing Chun training. Within this extended pathway, students are taught all major Wing Chun Kuen forms, including:
This pathway is intended for practitioners seeking full immersion, progressing through all stages of internal training, classical forms, principles, and long-term cultivation as traditionally preserved within the lineage.
Both training pathways are authentic, rigorous, and highly valuable, sharing the same internal standards and principles, while offering different approaches to depth, structure, and long-term commitment.
Internal Wing Chun Course
The Internal Wing Chun course is a fully developed and focused program, designed for Wing Chun practitioners from all lineages as well as committed beginners. This pathway places its primary emphasis on the Ancient 1700 Single Set Siu Lin Tau, using it as the central framework for developing structure, internal power, awareness, and functional application.
Through this form, students cultivate genuine internal skill, deepen their understanding of core principles, and experience meaningful internal development without needing to follow the full Apprentice-to-Disciple progression. This course offers a direct and effective entry into internal Wing Chun training while remaining compatible with other Wing Chun practices and life commitments.
Learn more about this course here:
1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun Curriculum
The 1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun Curriculum represents the complete traditional progression of internal Wing Chun training. Within this extended pathway, students are taught all major Wing Chun Kuen forms, including:
- Siu Nim Tau
- Chum Kiu
- Biu Tze
- The Ancient 1700 Single Set Siu Lin Tau
This pathway is intended for practitioners seeking full immersion, progressing through all stages of internal training, classical forms, principles, and long-term cultivation as traditionally preserved within the lineage.
Both training pathways are authentic, rigorous, and highly valuable, sharing the same internal standards and principles, while offering different approaches to depth, structure, and long-term commitment.
1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun
The Eternal Spring Institute 1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun Online Program represents one of the two distinct pathways for online study within the Eternal Spring Institute’s educational structure. This pathway is formally integrated into multiple associations worldwide, for example within the Schools of Kung Fu departments of the IWKA, where it is taught in affiliated academies as the Eternal Spring Institute Master Classes, dedicated exclusively to the 1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun curriculum
For many years, students have been led to believe that it takes 20 years or more to develop high-level internal skill. In some cases, higher internal methods were deliberately withheld by teachers out of fear that students might surpass them. This misconception can now be laid to rest.
Through the Eternal Spring Institute 1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun Online Curriculum, Sifu Sergio Pascal Iadarola guides students through the exact internal cultivation process required to reach levels of internal development that once seemed unattainable. The program includes precise, detailed instruction in the Ancient Siu Lin Tau set, originally developed at the end of the 1700s, as well as the three-set format of Siu Nim Tau, Chum Kiu, and Biu Tze in their earliest known forms from their mid-1800s development, transmitted according to classical internal principles.
Around the world today, many claim to teach internal Wing Chun. Unfortunately, much of what is presented consists of empty choreography, devoid of real internal content. It has become increasingly difficult to find practitioners who demonstrate deep, authentic internal skill, and even more difficult to find teachers who preserve the correct Wing Chun forms capable of accommodating true internal development.
According to historical research, Wing Chun around the time of the Taiping Uprising was simplified and stripped of much of its internal content. One reason for this was the urgent need to prepare fighters quickly in order to overthrow the Qing dynasty and restore the Ming. As a result, many deeper internal methods were set aside or lost over time.
After decades of extensive research and training, Sifu Sergio Pascal Iadarola has resurrected the Ancient Siu Lin Tau (Little Training) set, working closely with his internal teachers to restore it precisely according to the Kuen Kuit. In parallel, together with his colleague Sifu Yuri Morelli, an official lineage holder in the Snake Crane Wing Chun lineage, he systemised and refined the syllabus of the earliest versions of Siu Nim Tau, Chum Kiu, and Biu Tze, based on the secret notes recorded by Law Tai Wan in 1890.
Even today, only a handful of masters worldwide are capable of teaching authentic internal Wing Chun from this period. Traditionally, these teachings were reserved for family members or closed-door disciples. Furthermore, through more than 16 years of living and training in China, Sifu Sergio has had the rare privilege of studying multiple lineages to completion, an opportunity afforded to very few.
The Eternal Spring Institute 1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun Online Program provides direct access to this preserved knowledge, eliminating the need for countless journeys around the world. Students are able to study authentic internal Wing Chun directly from Sifu Sergio, from the comfort of their own home or wherever they are, using modern online learning tools.
The founder of the Internal Wisdom and Knowledge Association, Sifu Sergio Pascal Iadarola, is proud to present this formal Institute-level online program, offering real internal transmission, structured progression, and lineage-based teaching within the Eternal Spring Institute.
For many years, students have been led to believe that it takes 20 years or more to develop high-level internal skill. In some cases, higher internal methods were deliberately withheld by teachers out of fear that students might surpass them. This misconception can now be laid to rest.
Through the Eternal Spring Institute 1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun Online Curriculum, Sifu Sergio Pascal Iadarola guides students through the exact internal cultivation process required to reach levels of internal development that once seemed unattainable. The program includes precise, detailed instruction in the Ancient Siu Lin Tau set, originally developed at the end of the 1700s, as well as the three-set format of Siu Nim Tau, Chum Kiu, and Biu Tze in their earliest known forms from their mid-1800s development, transmitted according to classical internal principles.
Around the world today, many claim to teach internal Wing Chun. Unfortunately, much of what is presented consists of empty choreography, devoid of real internal content. It has become increasingly difficult to find practitioners who demonstrate deep, authentic internal skill, and even more difficult to find teachers who preserve the correct Wing Chun forms capable of accommodating true internal development.
According to historical research, Wing Chun around the time of the Taiping Uprising was simplified and stripped of much of its internal content. One reason for this was the urgent need to prepare fighters quickly in order to overthrow the Qing dynasty and restore the Ming. As a result, many deeper internal methods were set aside or lost over time.
After decades of extensive research and training, Sifu Sergio Pascal Iadarola has resurrected the Ancient Siu Lin Tau (Little Training) set, working closely with his internal teachers to restore it precisely according to the Kuen Kuit. In parallel, together with his colleague Sifu Yuri Morelli, an official lineage holder in the Snake Crane Wing Chun lineage, he systemised and refined the syllabus of the earliest versions of Siu Nim Tau, Chum Kiu, and Biu Tze, based on the secret notes recorded by Law Tai Wan in 1890.
Even today, only a handful of masters worldwide are capable of teaching authentic internal Wing Chun from this period. Traditionally, these teachings were reserved for family members or closed-door disciples. Furthermore, through more than 16 years of living and training in China, Sifu Sergio has had the rare privilege of studying multiple lineages to completion, an opportunity afforded to very few.
The Eternal Spring Institute 1700 / 1800 Internal Wing Chun Online Program provides direct access to this preserved knowledge, eliminating the need for countless journeys around the world. Students are able to study authentic internal Wing Chun directly from Sifu Sergio, from the comfort of their own home or wherever they are, using modern online learning tools.
The founder of the Internal Wisdom and Knowledge Association, Sifu Sergio Pascal Iadarola, is proud to present this formal Institute-level online program, offering real internal transmission, structured progression, and lineage-based teaching within the Eternal Spring Institute.
"The internal martial arts is all about Mastering Body, Mind and Energy."
Sifu Sergio P. Iadarola
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- In depth principles and teachings on Internal Wing Chun Qigong and Nei Gong
- Exploration of the Ancient 1700 and 1800 Kuen Kuit
- Zhan Zhuang through the diverse stages, and daily habits to support your practice.
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- Access to the upcoming Seminar Library containing regularly updated seminar and lecture videos, and selective articles and writings.