The Integration was born from lived experience.

Matthew Husino did not come to martial arts as a hobby. He came to martial arts through survival.

After growing up through trauma, instability, homelessness, and deep personal struggle, martial arts became a way back into strength, discipline, confidence, and purpose.

At one of the lowest points in his life, Matthew was introduced to martial arts and psychology by a man who helped him see a new future. From that moment, he formed a clear vision:

Master martial arts.

Study the human mind.

Break destructive family patterns.

Help others become whole.

That vision eventually became The Integration.

For years, Matthew trained intensely in traditional Japanese martial arts. He gave himself fully to the dojo, teaching classes, mentoring students, and pursuing mastery.

Martial arts gave him structure.

Martial arts gave him confidence.

Martial arts gave him his body back.

But over time, Matthew realized something important:

Martial arts alone was not the full answer.

A person can become physically skilled and still be emotionally wounded.

A person can earn rank and still not understand their trauma.

A person can learn self-defense and still not know how to relate, communicate, trust, grieve, lead, or love.

Matthew began studying psychology, personality, trauma, the Enneagram, Tritype®, Instincts, Spiral Dynamics, Core Energetics, MBTI, leadership, communication, and human development.

That completed the missing pieces.

Martial arts helped develop the body.

Psychology helped clarify the mind.

Healing helped open the heart.

The Integration was created from the union of all three.

Matthew Husino is a martial artist, teacher, and founder of The Integration.

His path has been shaped by adversity, discipline, deep study, and transformation.

Matthew began martial arts as a young boy through Karate, but his serious training began in his early 20s when he entered a traditional Japanese martial arts school in Concord, California.

From approximately 2010 to 2017, Matthew trained with extreme intensity, often 30 to 40 hours per week. During that time, he became a senior instructor, taught children, juniors, and adults, completed intensive instructor training, and earned advanced rank in multiple martial arts systems.

His primary martial arts credentials include:

• Seibukan Jujutsu: 7th degree black belt

• Enshin Itto Ryu Battojutsu: 4th degree black belt

• Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu: 3rd degree black belt

Matthew has studied under Julio Toribio in Seibukan Jujutsu and Battojutsu, and under Ninjutsu grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi through the Bujinkan tradition.

After leaving full-time dojo life, Matthew entered the world of business, sales, leadership, communication, and personal development. He had thousands of real-world conversations, studied human behavior deeply, read extensively, built leadership experience, and continued searching for the deeper principles behind transformation.

That journey eventually led him back to teaching.

The Integration is the result of Matthew’s life path: martial arts, psychology, healing, leadership, trauma recovery, personality study, and lived experience brought together into one system.

The Integration is rooted in martial arts as a path of discipline, embodiment, awareness and self mastery. It draws from traditional foundations as well as modern training methods and additional systems that deepen practical skill, adaptability, and real world applications.

Rather than belonging to only one narrow expression of martial arts, The Integration honors the wisdom of lineage while recognizing that growth often requires cross-training, refinement and direct experience. The martial side of the system teaches presence under pressure, physical (Gut) level intelligence and the ability to act with clarity and purpose.

The Integration is rooted in serious martial arts training.

Matthew’s primary martial arts foundations are:

Seibukan Jujutsu

Enshin Itto Ryu Battojutsu

Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu

These systems shaped his understanding of structure, distance, timing, balance, leverage, pressure, weapons, discipline, awareness, and survival.

The Integration also draws from additional physical disciplines and movement studies, including:

Karate, Boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Wing Chun, Filipino martial arts, MMA, Weck Method, Biomechanics, Human Anatomy

The Integration is not limited to preserving one style.

It studies how the human body actually moves, adapts, protects itself, expresses power, and learns under pressure.

The goal is practical movement, embodied confidence, and real self-understanding.

The Integration is deeply informed by the Enneagram: including Core Type, Subtypes, Tritypes®, Instinctual Patterns, and the movement toward wholeness. Matt encountered Tritype® and Katherine Chernick Fauvre’s work in 2024 and quickly felt drawn by the depth and breadth of her years of research and knowledge. At the time Matt had already learned about MBTI and done some research on other personality typology; but the Enneagram and Katherine’s Tritype® offered something much deeper than surface level explanation of a person’s behavior; it went straight to the motivations of why we do what we do. Matt began meeting with Katherine as a guide and mentor for deeper work in 2024 and started the certification process with her in 2025 and is expected to be certified by the end of 2026.

The Integration is built on one core belief:

The system should serve the human being.

Tradition matters. Technique matters. Discipline matters. Lineage matters.

But none of those should come before the person.

Many people come to martial arts carrying fear, trauma, insecurity, anger, shame, disconnection, or a deep desire to become stronger. The Integration meets the student as a whole human being, not just as a body to be trained or a rank to be advanced.

The goal is not to create blind loyalty to a system.

The goal is to help each student become more alive, self-aware, capable, grounded, and free.

• The Integration trains the body.

• It clarifies the mind.

• It strengthens the heart.

• It develops instinct.

• It builds character.

• It helps people become whole.

The Integration is not just about learning techniques.

It is about becoming the kind of person who can move through life with strength, awareness, courage, humility, and purpose.

• Come train with us.

• Learn how to move.

• Learn how to understand yourself.

• Learn how to become stronger, clearer, and more whole.