The Inner Research Institute teaches the sequence of the short form of the Yang Style T’ai Chi Ch’uan that Master Cheng
Man-ch’ing created. Push hands, Ta Lu, San Shou and the T’ai Chi sword are also taught throughout the year. IRI is a nonprofit organization founded in 1972 on the island of Maui in Hawaii. The purpose and goals of the school are to teach and develop the art of T’ai Chi Ch’uan as a tool for improving one’s health and life and creating happiness. Through the understanding of one’s ch’i energy, it is possible to change one’s life and to bring it into a state of harmony.

Martin Inn founded the IRI and has been a teacher of T’ai Chi Ch’uan for over 40 years. With Benjamin Lo, he is the co-translator of The Essence of T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Cheng Tze’s Thirteen Treatises on T’ai Chi Ch’uan. These two books have become standard texts for all students and practitioners of T’ai Chi. Martin Inn is also a licensed practitioner of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in the states of California and Hawaii, and is certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists. He holds an OMD from the Postgraduate Institute of Oriental Medicine in China and has been in private practice for over 20 years.