Wisdom Healing Qigong Retreats For
The Alchemy Of
"Hybrid" Retreats - Online & In-Person
10 Days for Immersive Healing
10 Days for Immersive Healing
(prerequisites required)
You can join Fall Retreats from the comfort and safety of your home, too!
Please see our revised COVID notice at the bottom of this page to help you make this important decision. Registration for Fall Online Retreats is open, too.
GENTLE & ENLIVENING MOVEMENT AND EMBODIMENT PRACTICES
We’ll start each day's session with a short meditation (called setting the chi field), followed by Master Mingtong teaching you simple movement practices that relax your mind and body to generate more powerful healing and awakening effects. Then we'll continue working together as a group in the beautiful round Lotus Flower Kiva and/or our geodesic Compassion Dome. Your day will include teachings, transmissions, sound healing technologies, and gentle movement practices.
SOUND HEALING TO OPEN YOUR HEART & EMOTIONAL ENERGY
You will learn and practice intensive Sound Healing for the 5 organ systems. Sacred healing sounds work to release the stress we all feel — which is often primarily emotional stress locked in the cellular memory of our organs. By healing these emotional contractions of energy, you empower yourself to heal and awaken on every level of your life.
Sound Healing is a deeply empowering practice. Anybody can do it.
You don’t need to know how to play musical instrument, you don’t need a strong voice, and you don’t need any special healing skills. You simply join in making the healing sounds and experience the sounds and energy around you.
Sound is an energetic vibration that can awaken your heart, your organs, your consciousness, and your cells – to facilitate deep healing and transformation on all levels from the physical to the emotional and spiritual.
Master Mingtong will teach you the Sound Healing techniques that are normally shared with Level 3 practitioners of Wisdom Healing Qigong. Advanced toning techniques benefit the brain, spinal cord, nerves, joints, muscles, and tendons — as well as awaken your consciousness.
Even if you’re a complete beginner, you can learn these techniques with step-by-step guidance. And, there will be plenty of breaks to allow you to assimilate.
PURE CONSCIOUSNESS PRACTICES TO CONNECT TO ESSENCE
Continuing the progress you’ve made in Sound Healing and Movement practices, Master Mingtong will introduce you to the beautiful practice of Lift Chi Up & Pour Chi Down, plus beginning Pure Consciousness practices.
This will be the one of the rare times both these practice forms are shared with the general public — the teachings were previously only available within the Zhineng Qigong Master training program in China.
By combining these practices with the energetic charge of our sacred location, plus the collective energy field of the group... the entire Retreat will become a supercharged experience of healing and spiritual awakening!
SMALL GROUP REFLECTION & INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES
END-OF-THE-DAY GROUP HEALING SESSIONS
During the healing session, Master Mingtong activates the Wisdom Healing Qigong energetic flow through a combination of English, Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. The participants also engage in their own process of mindful intention — to help absorb, assimilate, and activate healing and transformation on a cellular level.
The healing energy transmission that flows through Master Mingtong and the chi field is connected to the energy that makes up your intention. That connection activates deep openings of energetic blockages and stimulates the awakening of aliveness in the body. This is the essence of inner medicine and the Healing Session.
THE SCHEDULE FOR EACH 10-DAY RETREAT CYCLE (In-Person and Online)
Day 1:
• 1:00pm - 5:45pm: Room Check In (for in-person guests)
• 5:45pm - 6:15pm: Welcome to our In-person guests and our Online participants
• 6:15pm - 8:30: Dinner - Intro and Orientation will be held in the dining hall and then transition to Kiva (will be streamed for the online participants)
Days 2-9:
• 7:45am - 8:45am Early Morning: Sacred Time and breakfast - this is primarily your free time to take a walk and greet the day, which may include a facilitated short activity led by a teacher - to be announced each day (will not be streamed online)
• 9:00am -12:30pm: In-Person Teachings & Practice from the Kiva — livestreamed (break times will vary)
• 12:30pm - 1:50pm: Lunch break and chi nap (no livestream)
• 2:00pm - 6:00pm: In-Person Teachings & Practice from the Kiva — livestreamed (break times will vary)
• 6:15pm - 7:15pm: Dinner break (no livestream)
• 7:30pm - 8:20pm: Evening Activities: Healing Sessions, Small Groups, and Closing Ceremonies on Day 9 — These activities will be livestreamed online as feasible
Day 10:
• 7:45am - 8:45am Early Morning: Sacred Time and breakfast - this is primarily your free time to take a walk and greet the day, which may include a facilitated short activity led by a teacher - to be announced each day(will not be streamed)
• 9:00am - 12:30am: In-Person Sharing, Teachings & Practice from the Kiva — livestreamed (break times will vary)
• 12:30pm - 1:30pm: Completion with an informal lunch together (may be livestreamed)
• 3:00pm Check out for in-person guests
TIME & SPACE TO ENJOY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
A Beautiful Venue In New Mexico, USA:
This beautiful 150-acre property boasts breathtaking views of New Mexico’s landscape, the dazzling sunrises and sunsets over the surrounding mountains, and expansive and true darkness that reveals the Milky Way on the many clear nights. As soon as you arrive you can feel the same sacred healing energy of the land that the native people of this area have been feeling for thousands of years.
Retreats are held in the Lotus Kiva, a beautiful circular building which replicates traditional ceremonial kivas, set into the earth. The main lodge features six fireplaces, and the grounds include two labyrinths, outdoor fireplaces and art, fountains, a pond with a waterfall and paths for reflection and hiking. (Check out the video below for a 3-minute tour.)
The dome structure is formed using sacred geometry — the synthesis of the modern scientific and the intuitive artistic dimension of geometry. It's built with a series of straight lines on a curved space that intersect to form triangles. Because of its shape and construction air, sound, and energy circulate without obstruction. This enables temperature regulation to occur naturally and assists in feelings of inner peace and a sense of connection to your natural rhythms for gaining clarity and insight. When inside the dome you'll experience a dual feeling of wide-open spaciousness combined with a sense of solidity and grounding.
"The Center's main room for practice is called a Kiva, which is the traditional name for a place for ceremony. And, more importantly, it's a place to have an experience of an energy portal that really represents the nature of our work together. Sixty-feet in diameter, it is supported by an amazing sacred geometry architecture — half in the ground and half above the ground. The entire 150-acre Retreat Center is surrounded by the magical skies of The Land of Enchantment." –Master Mingtong Gu
Master Mingtong Gu — Founder of The Chi Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong
plus 10-Days Single Occupancy Room & Board $2,200
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October & November 2022
This Retreat will focus on Mental, Emotional, and Physical energy flow to release energetic blockages that can become the source of dis-ease, discomfort, pain, and emotional challenges.
Master Mingtong will also include intermediate-level practices that expand the spiritual dimension of life. You will learn and experience Pure Consciousness practices that open your heart and soul to the inner truth within.
You will experience the movements, sounds, meditations, and visualizations of Wisdom Healing Qigong while engaging in intensive practice that opens your energy flow to deeper levels of physical, emotional, and spiritual energetic healing. Receive direct energetic transmissions that help you absorb and assimilate the powerful teachings into embodied wisdom, that informs and transforms you on a cellular level.
Open to the infinite potential available in every cell and every movement in this first-of-its-kind Retreat, completely focusing on Advanced level Practices that includes Level 200, 300, 400, 500, and Advanced Pure Consciousness practices.
Immersed in the WHQ chi field, Master Mingtong will guide you through many of the advanced teachings and practices taught in Lift Chi Up, Pour Chi Down, Awaken Vitality, Sound Healing, as well as Pure Consciousness.
Awaken your inner dragon through advanced spine-opening practices. Work with Integrative Oneness Theory, internal and external integration, accessing Hun Yuan Chi through LCUPCD, cultivation of Healing Mind, and advanced Shenji opening practices.
Expand your consciousness by experiencing vibration as the key to energetic awareness. Develop an experiential understanding of the Hun Yuan chi body as a matrix of interrelated aspects unified by the common purpose of being.
During this Retreat for advanced practitioners, you will expand your capacity for intensity and duration of practice, and discover that it is not just what we do, but how we do it that creates effective results.
Our founder, Master Mingtong Gu, started out with asthma, scoliosis, as well as deep emotional pain from an unhappy and unstable childhood while growing up in China.
He found very little relief from standard treatments, and was resigned to a life centered on trying to manage his symptoms and pain.
In 1993 during his search for relief and healing, a friend of his from Ohio invited him to a Qigong class she was teaching.
When he spoke about his first experience, he said, "I was fascinated but had no idea how this could improve my health. But then... I felt a sense of lightness, flexibility, and inner being-ness that I had never experienced before. I asked my friend if she had any books about the practice and she gave me a book written in Chinese about the Medicineless Qigong Hospital in China. This planted the seed that led to my return to China and studying with Dr. Grandmaster Pang Ming."
Master Mingtong's journey to wellness led him to China, to Dr. Grandmaster Pang Ming's Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Clinic, Training, and Recovery Center — also known as the Medicine-less Qigong Hospital, where he experienced profound healing through the ancient healing modality Zhineng Qigong, which translates to "Wisdom Healing Qigong".
This Center was unlike typical hospitals you might think of; it used Qigong as the only form of treatment.
Over 23 years, The Center in China served 200,000 people with chronic, incurable, and "terminal" illnesses with excellent results.
Master Mingtong learned that Zhineng Qigong wasn’t just about movements. The healing went far deeper than the physical...
“We cultivate our own life energy through accessing nature’s great store of life energy [called qi or chi]. This approach produces quick results. But cultivating one’s qi/chi is not the most fundamental; cultivating one’s spirit is.
"Mastery of qi/chi is really achieved through mastery of consciousness. We use consciousness in a careful, craftsman-like way, to shape our life, to attain our goals…
"In modern terms, Qigong is just the refinement of consciousness to enhance the state of energy in the body. This leads to vibrant health, a harmonious body and mind, and awakened spiritual life.” —Dr. Ming Pang, creator of Zhineng Qigong (aka Wisdom Healing Qigong)
People might have come in for help with a chronic illness, but they left with a depth and renewed awakening of their spirit that changed their lives in profound ways.
At first, Mingtong went to Grandmaster Pang's Medicine-less Qigong Hospital simply with the intention of finding more inner peace and emotional balance.
Yet, what he got was so much more.
"The main changes I noticed, in the beginning, were emotional. I started to feel more open and more secure — an overall sense of centeredness at first, then a deeper sense of happiness, and eventually, an overall increase in my awareness and emotional capacity. I could feel my emotions return to inner centeredness and inner peace effectively when strong emotions arose — without being suppressed."
And, it didn't stop there.
"I started to notice a new sense of well-being after I decided to make this practice a regular routine. My spine started to open, my breathing became deeper, and my mind started to settle with an inner sense of exploration."
In time, with consistent practice, Master Mingtong healed his asthma and scoliosis completely.
It was incredible.
As he healed at The Medicine-less Qigong Hospital, Master Mingtong watched other people come with every sort of illness and emotional struggle you could imagine, and was fascinated to watch as residents got healthier and more joyful throughout their stay.
As miraculous as this sounds, there's a lot of scientific validation to it as well!
His dedication has been recognized by being named the Qigong Master of the Year by the World Congress for Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
For more than 30 years, he has continued to follow his calling to cultivate his practice and do everything possible to share the amazing gift of Qigong he received, mastered, and continues to deepen.
QIGONG is a practice, a technology, and an art that applies ancient wisdom, modern science, and the mind’s creative power to transform our lives from dis-ease to health and well-being.
It's a direct and powerful technology to tap into the infinite source of energy — the same energy in the Milky Way — and use this infinite source to transform our physical and psychological conditions for a better, more balanced life.
HEALING is the application and benefit of awakening consciousness and wisdom when we work with energy as the foundational substance of the creative living universe within and around us.
True healing addresses the deepest causes of disease and life's problems beyond simply fixing the symptoms. It requires practice to become aware of and change the limited patterns of mind, body, and heart and to then address those energetic conditions. The result is improvement of health and wellbeing, including the transformation of chronic illness for both the long and short term. Healing also seeks – quite naturally – the deep transformation of the whole person, by realizing the whole unified harmony of the individual within and in relationship to the multi-dimensional unity of all life.
WISDOM is the understanding that arises from an awakening of our perception and consciousness of life. Ultimate wisdom is the ability to know and embody the creative source of the living universe, moment-to-moment. It is our conscious capacity to fully participate in the continuous dance of evolving creation.
WISDOM HEALING QIGONG is a Western expression of the most validated effective form of Qigong, cultivated and refined by Master Mingtong Gu. Its foundations stem from the practice of Zhineng Qigong, founded by Master Mingtong's revered and beloved teacher in China, Dr. Grandmaster Pang Ming.
Qigong is the cosmology (theory) and technology (art) for consciousness to work with creative energy (chi). It is a creative union of consciousness and energy, which awakens the joy-full wisdom capacity of mind, heart, and body.
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