The program consists of five distinctive phases of martial arts training taught in the ancient temple style. The phases build on one another but each is internally consistent - that is, at the end of each phase the student graduates to the next level indicating his or her completion of an internally consistent program with its own distinctive objectives and goals. These are outlined below. The students then receive in-depth training in the principles and techniques of Chinese Chi Gong and Nei Gong. Incorporated into the training are the fundamental principles of Shorinjin Ryu Saito Ninjitsu self defense, and the T'ai Chi principles of the Fu family Wu Dang Wu Shu arts of China.
Students graduate to green belt.
Several forms are taught. The students graduate from Er Shan only after demonstrating their knowledge and skills in the history, philosophy, health and martial principles of the art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan and an awareness of other internal Chinese systems. This is a rare 1000 year old secret art taught only by the Saito family of Fukushima, Japan. The students must develop their natural skills of seeing, hearing, sensing and feeling to an extraordinary degree. Ancient ritual dances taught nowhere else in the world help to develop the mental and psychic skills of Ninjitsu.