Online Resources
Online Resources Available for Individual Purchase
Online Resource Library A La Carte
The Online Resource Library is a growing collection of instructional courses and lectures to assist all students who wish to study with us. This page contains courses that are available for individual purchase. Purchase of these resources grants continuous access to a single course.
If you would like to gain access to all available resources, as well as other exclusive offerings, please consider our monthly membership.
More courses, lectures, and training resources will be added to this library as time goes on.
Note: At this time, all courses are only accessible via our website and are not downloadable.
Tier 1 Resources
Foundation Training, Lectures and Forms
Tier 2 Resources
Intermediate Level Training & Lectures
Instructors
Sifu Frank J. Paolillo
Founder & Master Instructor
Sifu Frank J. Paolillo is the Founder and Master Instructor of the Tao Institute. With over fifty years of daily dedication and study in the martial arts, Sifu Paolillo brings a wealth of knowledge and depth of experience to his teaching and creative martial art work. Sifu’s focus is on cultivating the Tao as a way of life through internal martial arts, meditation, and qigong, and imparts to his students a true transmission of Tao through the training of form and formless.
Mela Carreira
Assistant Instructor
Mela is a dedicated student and assistant instructor to Sifu Paolillo. A martial arts practitioner since 2001, Mela was called to the internal arts and Asheville area in 2011, where she first began training at Tao Institute. Over the course of her training, Mela has come to understand, live by and deeply respect the philosophies of the martial arts and Tao in every day life. Mela teaches the entry level classes at Tao Institute and is a main assistant under the direct supervision of Sifu Paolillo in classes throughout the curriculum.