Trainings and educational programs for schools and communities around the world.
Philippines Retreat — August 2024 TBA
Philippines Retreat
A powerful 10-day immersive Warrior Training & Healing Retreat in the Motherland. This event was envisioned with the intention to create a Sacred Space of gathering for Pinays, Womxn of Color/ Queer&Trans Identifying Womxn/ Indigenous and Diasporic Womxn of Color to connect to the Motherland and create community by sharing ancestral knowledge. Registration now open for August 2024! Learn More →
BLADE FLOW 2024
Survival Arts continues our virtual training series for community to protect mind, body, and spirit against violence. We gather to honor our ancestors through the fighting arts. This training is intended for black, pinay / pilipinx, indigenous, trans, non-binary and gender-expansive people of color. Next Virtual Dates TBA Learn More →
Community Education
Survival Arts creates programs for indigenous, black, brown, queer trans people of color and their families. With 1 in 5 women raped at some point in their lives, women of color and members of the LGBTQ community face the highest rates of sexual assault. We work to counter the violence that is being inflicted upon womxn's bodies globally. Read More →
Indigenous Blade Culture
Pekiti Tirsia Kali is an indigenous system of Filipino fighting arts. Originating from the Visayas region of the Philippines, this sacred blade culture has protected the family since 1897. Grand Tuhon Leo T. Gaje Jr. is the guardian of Pekiti Tirsia Kali (PTK), and has taught all over the world, making it world-renowned for survival strategy & tactics. Read More →
Today’s students.
Tomorrow’s leaders.
By providing educational programs to protect and empower women, children and LGBTQIA+ communities around the world, Survival Arts prepares leaders for the future.
