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Lead Your life into Lasting Vitality, Joy and Wellness ... At The Chi Center Retreats
"Before I traveled 2000 miles to the Chi Center’s Healing Intensive Retreat in Petaluma, California last April, 2011, I knew my life would change and I am delighted by how much it has. I didn’t know Master Mingtong Gu, and I knew little about Qigong. But I knew, upon opening the email from the Institute of Noetic Sciences announcing the upcoming retreat that I would be there. I had just completed cancer treatment and was ready to learn Qigong practice to support my recovery...." Susan D, read more.
5 day Retreat
Affordably priced and perfectly suited for a busy life, it is a great opportunity to enhance your learning and deepen your Qigong practice with a large powerful chi field. The main highlights will focus on movement, sound healing and effective visualization for joy and wellness.
This Practice Retreat offers:
- a way to expand your favorite weekend and weekly classes into an intensive practice retreat with Master Mingtong Gu
- acceleration of your healing of mind and body through a strong chi field similar to our energetic Chi Center events and to the Qigong Center in China.
Residential Retreats provide the most concentrated full day/evening learning and skills experience, because the teachings and practice flow throughout the whole day and evening. See below for retreat venues. Commuter options are available at our retreats and include some or all meals.
Upcoming 2013 Retreats:
Commuter WHQ Retreat: Daytime Only - July 24 - 28, in San Rafael, CA:
This retreat for daytime commuters is open to all students, affordably priced and designed to fit a busy life, and offers 5 days of continuous practice within community to begin or re-new a qigong practice. Non-residential, participant provides own food and lodging.
Register Here
Teacher and Professional Training Retreat - July 29 - August 14, Commuter retreat in San Rafael, CA (6 days each session)
Read More, Register Here
Healing Intensive Retreat - October 4 - 8, Residential retreat in Colorado Springs, CO: Regester Here
Healing Intensive Retreat - October 22 - 30, Residential retreat in Petaluma, CA: details and registration coming soon.
Don't miss these amazing opportunities to deepen your practice and speed up your results!
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Retreats Designed For You
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Each year we expand our offerings because of your requests. We hope you find just what you need in our current program.
Three styles of Retreats to support you
• 5 day opportunities to discover and deepen your Qigong practice, either commuting or residential.
• 10 -15 day Healing Intensives to immerse yourself in the healing energy field 24/7 deeply absorbing the Qigong way of being, of healing, of empowerment, vitality, joy and transformation.
• Professional Development for Qigong Teachers and Healers to continue their personal growth while learning the art of sharing Wisdom Healing Qigong.
Retreat venues:
Single and/or shared rooms are available at the various well established retreat centers that meet our requirements to give you a comfortable, clean place to rest, renew, grow and integrate a new way of being.
Incredibly healthy, mostly organic food will be provided, with love and caring, accommodating most dietary requests including vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, and dairy free. Our most frequently used locations are the Angela Center in Santa Rosa, EarthRise Retreat Center in Petaluma and LaForet Retreat Center in Colorado.
Angela Center, Santa Rosa, CA
(www.angelacenter.org)
EarthRise Retreat Center, Petaluma, CA
(www.ions.org)
LaForet Conference and Retreat Center in Colorado
(www.laforet.org)
Fees, Registration and Payment
You can reserve your spot for an upcoming retreat through our website. Prices vary with length of stay and location. Commuter and scholarship options help make our retreats accessible to almost anyone with a strong desire to participate. Fees cover tuition, group healings and day use fee. Food and lodging is included in the residential packages. Private sessions are additional.
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What is a Healing Intensive Qigong Retreat?
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A first-of–its-kind in North America, the Healing Intensive Retreat offers the same successful healing program, established for people experiencing major health challenges, at the world’s largest Qigong hospital in China. Over 200,000 people with all types of illnesses were treated there. The Qigong hospital reported a 95% effective improvement. An average of 33% of the participants were cured of chronic and “incurable” diseases.
Consider the Benefits:
- If you are working with chronic illness or other health challenges, you can empower yourself to improve and heal these conditions;
- If you are stressed and exhausted, you can recharge your life with fresh energy and a new beginning;
- If you are ready to release old emotional imprints, you can re-discover your core essence and joy beyond these conditions;
- If you are caregiver and/or a health care professional, you can expand your ability to serve others while revitalizing yourself;
- If you are interested in the Wisdom Healing for Professionals training program, this retreat can give you a deep experience of enhancing your ability to work with effective and proven Qigong energetics and prepare you for the next Wisdom Healing Professional Training retreat in July 2013
Are you ready to change your life for the better right now?
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 Who Attends?
All ages and abiliies are welcome, including:
- New or continuing students seeking powerful tools for self healing or expanding professional capacities
- Anyone facing acute or chronic illness, stress, aging, or recovering from injury
- Those feeling stressed, depleted, full of anxiety or depressed and wishing to strengthen your endocrine and immune systems
- Qigong Teachers getting certification
- Wellness professionals wishing to offer more comprehensive health benefits in their practice
- Caretakers and family members of Retreat students who wish to reduce stress, enhance joy, and build vitality
- People with all types and levels of health challenges (a caregiver is required to accompany students with serious medical conditions)
- Those who are inspired to work for the awakening of human potential, committed to making sustainable positive changes in life
Join those who come together from around the world to focus on healing body, mind, heart and spirit through the powerful movement, sound and visualization practices of Qigong.
Whether you're addressing specific conditions such as cancer, Parkinson's, diabetes, Lyme's disease, immune deficiencies, addiction, chronic pain, or trauma; whether you need to relax and rejuvenate from excessive stress; whether you want to support others in their healing journey or deepen your own understanding and practice of Qigong, the retreat environment is a unique opportunity to activate your deepest intentions for healing and joy.
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What do you do in a Qigong Retreat?
You will learn a natural healing process that was developed by Dr. Pang Ming, a medical doctor of Chinese Medicine, a Qigong Grandmaster, and the founder of the medicine-less Qigong hospital in China.
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What do you do in a Qigong Retreat?
You will learn a natural healing process that was developed by Dr. Pang Ming, a medical doctor of Chinese Medicine, a Qigong Grandmaster, and the founder of the medicine-less Qigong hospital in China.
• You learn the theory and practices of one of the world's most effective energy healing sciences, from basic to advanced.
• You absorb potent Chi day and night, and increase your internal Chi through movement, meditation, sound, visualization and REST.
• Master Gu will personally lead you to cultivate the Six Golden Keys of Chi Medicine - the most effective “ingredients” prescribed by the medicine-less Qigong Hospital.
• You will learn to organize a chi field of healing to accelerate your healing. You will learn group healing and the ultimate method to transmit chi for healing of self and others (called Fachi and Lachi).
• Mingtong and Linling will lead group healings and spirals, with optional individual sessions available at some retreats.
• You will learn the basic and advanced practices of Wisdom Healing Qigong, practice often together and get the teachings and tools you need to continue at home.
• You will “purify” your chi by moving through challenges and releasing the mental and emotional resistance with these profound practices.
• Learn to clear and balance the emotions for deeper healing.
• You learn to “receive” chi mentally. Develop a quiet and creative mind to realize healing most effectively. You access your inner wisdom and consciousness, awakening to your deep nature and purpose, and strengthening your inner resources.
• Learn to activate the infinite potential in your food, supplements and conventional medicines. Digest the chi medicine of great food, sincere companions, music, song, dance, and lots of laughter and hugs. And experience the joy of eating in silence for many of our meals together.
• Discover how to cultivate pure and expanded consciousness. Frequent periods of extended silence will allow for integration and your personal journey deeply inward.
• Be joined by qualified teachers and experienced leaders (Chi Team Leaders) to support you personally and facilitate small support groups. The chi community bonds are precious jewels you will take with your for the rest of your life.
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What to expect?
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By participating in a Healing Intensive Retreat, you will:
- Learn to clear and balance the emotions so that a deeper healing can occur
- Develop a quiet and creative mind to realize healing most effectively
- Learn the ultimate methods to transmit Chi for healing of self and others (called FaChi )
- Organize a chi field of healing with collective power to accelerate your healing
- Learn profound theories and practices for energy healing to better understand and realize your healing capacity
- Discover how to enter pure and expanded consciousness
- Cultivate inner and outer support systems, including individual practice and community connections for sustainable healing
Follow-up personal and community support systems are available after the retreat. Upon returning home from the retreat, you will be able to continue the daily practice of movement, sound, visualization and meditation for continued healing and profound transformation: A recording of the entire retreat (teaching, practice and group healing sessions) is made available. You have the option to order and use it after the retreat. There are abundant on-going classes offered by Mingtong, Linling and other qualified teachers. For students who have previously learned these methods, Healing Intensive Retreats are an opportunity to greatly advance both your practice and your ability to absorb Chi at deeper levels for healing and transformation.
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The Proof is in the Research
In the 1980s and 1990s, as Dr. Pang was developing the largest medicine-less hospital known as “Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Training and Recovery Center” enormous scientific research, some 3000 research papers, were published. In two decades, the Center treated more than 200,000 patients. This sample was taken during a three month period in 1998 of the 2088 people at the Center. From this group the following impressive results were documented:
Cured: 731 (35.01% ); Very effective: 488 (23.37%); Effective: 863 (41.28%); No effect: 6 (0.29%);The total effective rate of 97% .
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The Proof is in the Research
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In the 1980s, and 1990s, as Dr. Pang was developing the largest medicine-less hospital known as “Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Training and Recovery Center” enormous scientific research, some 3000 research papers were published. In two decades, the Center treated more than 200,000 patients. This sample was taken during a three month period in 1998 of the 2088 people at the Center. From this group the following impressive results were documented:
Cured: 731 (35.01% ); Very effective: 488 (23.37%); Effective: 863 (41.28%); No effect: 6 (0.29%);The total effective rate of 97% .
Recent research reveals that Qigong training
(more detailed review at www.qigonginstitute.org)
- Initiates the ‘relaxation response, decreasing heart rate and blood pressure.
- Alters the neurochemistry profile moderating pain, depression and addictive cravings, as well as optimizing immune capability.
- Enhances the efficiency of the immune system through increased rate and flow of the lymphatic fluid.
- Improves resistance to disease and infection and increases the efficiency of cell metabolism and tissue regeneration.
- Coordinates right/left brain hemisphere dominance promoting deep sleep, reduced anxiety and mental clarity.
- Induces alpha and theta brain waves which reduce heart rate and blood pressure, facilitating relaxation, mental focus and even paranormal skills.
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How does Qigong work to heal all diseases?
(By itself and as a compliment to conventional medicine)
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Qigong works with the totality of the living universe to tap into the formless energy resources beyond the 4% of the form energy (physical) and brings the newly discovered energy back to the physical world to enhance and transform the physical. In doing so, healing and awakening of the consciousness can be accelerated and realized fully
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How does Qigong work to heal all diseases?
(By itself and as a compliment to conventional medicine)
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Qigong works with the totality of the living universe to tap into the formless energy resources beyond the 4% of the form energy (physical) and brings the newly discovered energy back to the physical world to enhance and transform the physical. In doing so, healing and awakening of the consciousness can be accelerated and realized fully.
• The living universe is made of energy: 96% is formless and invisible while 4% is physical – matter, dark matter and energy.
• Nothing is lost in the universe: e=mc2.
• Everything is changing every moment: thermodynamics.
• There are two directions of causes, horizontal and vertical, behind every effect. One is the science of the physical (Newtonian physics) and the other is consciousness as energy (quantum physics).
Qigong’s cosmology is aligned with ancient Taoist and Buddhist philosophy that is validated and rediscovered by today’s new science including quantum physics, neuroscience, biphotonic research, biochemistry and eptigenetic research.
In contrast to the question of healing,
‘Can my body heal itself?’
(as if the body is a machine itself) from a Western medical perspective,
the Qigong perspective is
"Can my mind and body heal together?"
“The greatest discovery of modern science is the link between the energy coursing through the cells of our body and the energy that gave birth to the stars and galaxies and life itself. Qi Gong is the embodiment of this discovery. Through the practice of Qigong, one comes to feel the energy that pervades us and carries us forward in our lives; and one begins to abide in this primoridal healing energy that has brought forth our cosmos over the last 13.7 billion years.”Brian Swimme, mathematical cosmologist and author of "The Universe Story"
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How do the ‘miracles’ happen?
In the science of Qigong, healing from chronic conditions is not a ‘miracle’ in the way the word is often used. Healing can occur in a spontaneous manner, with a quick shift of the mind or as the result of much dedicated practice. We deliberately activate our miracles with proven practices and our engaged consciousness.
At the medicine-less Qigong hospital in China, three keys were found essential for activating the true potentials of Qigong: consistent practice, accessing the collective and accumulative chi field and the true power of teachers and healers. While your practice can nourish your life energy in a sustainable way, a strong chi field can amplify the benefits exponentially. True teachers and healers can assist you to deepen your connection within and realize your true potential.
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In the science of Qigong, healing from chronic conditions is not a ‘miracle’ in the way the word is often used. Healing can occur in a spontaneous manner, with a quick shift of the mind or as the result of much dedicated practice. We deliberately activate our miracles with proven practices and our engaged consciousness.
At the medicine-less Qigong hospital in China, three keys were found essential for activating the true potentials of Qigong: consistent practice, accessing the collective and accumulative chi field and the true power of teachers and healers. While your practice can nourish your life energy in a sustainable way, a strong chi field can amplify the benefits exponentially. True teachers and healers can assist you to deepen your connection within and realize your true potential.
At the medicine-less Qigong hospital everyone was dedicated to healing, a powerful healing community formed, and each person’s progress was everyone’s progress. Massive group healings and practices were daily events. Everyone participated, even if on a stretcher or in a wheelchair. Everyone participated, even if on a stretcher or in a wheelchair. Everyone was blessed by the strong intention for healing and the deep desire to live and become vital and strong. Those that had already healed, or gained more strength, helped others or became teachers.
The most effective practices were shared and practiced for hours at a time. Caregivers assisted with the severely disabled in this residential experience. When you arrived you went through a battery of medical evaluations to know your condition. Then you engaged deeply with the practices and teachings for 24 days. Another set of tests was conducted and that is where the amazing percentages of healing are documented.
With this deep dedication many became powerful healers and the rates of healing grew greater and greater as the healing chi field grew stronger and stronger. The cumulative benefits of this experience is available now to us as we continue the lineage of healing through Master Gu, Dr. Pang and our own dedication.
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Master Mingtong Gu
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 Master Gu will bring his joyous teachings and extensive master skills to train your ability to expand wisdom and energy. Born and raised in China, Master Gu received extensive Qigong training under Grandmaster Pang at the largest Qigong medicine-less hospital in China. He has mastered the unique ability to lead the collective energy field to accelerate personal and global healing. Named The Qigong Master of the Year by the World Congress for Qigong and TCM, Mingtong Gu leads retreats and workshops internationally. Master Gu is the author of key books and the Pure Qi Online series that translate the ancient teachings of Wisdom Healing Qigong for contemporary times.
He founded the Chi Center, now based at the EarthRise at IONS in Petaluma, CA to bring Qigong wisdom to benefit others, based on his success working with all ages and many physical and emotional challenges.
Grandmaster Ming Pang
 Wisdom Healing (Zhineng) Qigong was developed by Dr. Ming Pang, a Qigong Grandmaster trained in both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. He synthesized his profound medical knowledge of the old and new healing sciences with the ancient Qigong practice. The result is an integrative system of self-healing and cultivation that is suited for the modern pragmatic world.
Dr. Pang (Heming Pang) is a renowned Chinese Qigong Grandmaster. He founded the largest Qigong medicine-less hospital in China, which has treated more than 200,000 patients and a documented 95% success rate . The Chinese government named Zhineng Qigong as the one of the most effective medical Qigong due to its extensive research and effective application of Qigong as a mind-body science.
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Miracles happen to regular people like you
Debra Chamberlin-Talyor: " In the mid 1980’s I started getting various constant infections then crushing fatigue. As years passed I developed multiple chemical and environmental sensitivities and insomnia. My life was shrinking because I had to rest much of each day. By year 2000, my inability to earn much money, my inability to see friends and family all became constant stress for me. Then in 2008 I got worse. I developed inflammation in all of my joints and back. I was in pain. I felt bad for how hard this was on my dear husband. Life was looking bleak and scary.
Then I found Qigong and Mingtong. By the end of the first weekend workshop, 95% of the inflammation and pain was gone. A few months later I was fortunate to be able to attend an intensive Qigong healing retreat. I am not exaggerating that when I say that since then I feel I’ve got my life back. The difference is that it’s a more joy filled and awake life than ever. My days and evenings are filled with fulfilling work and fun with friends and family. "
 Vivienne Verdon-Roe: “I had been struggling with chronic fatigue and Lyme’s disease for about twenty years. My health seemed to be going downhill, and frankly, I though my life was pretty much over. I started doing Wisdom Healing Qigong and began transforming on all levels of my being - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. I have tons more energy, no pain, no fatigue. Emotionally I am so much happier. It takes a bit of training, but being able to create a healthier, more abundant, loving, peaceful life seems totally worth the effort!” (Vivienne is now a Certified WHQ Teacher.)
More Healing Stories.
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Sharing from authors, meditation teachers, and medical professionals
“Mingtong is full of vitality, wisdom, and skill. He is a real healer, and the practices he teaches can change your life.”
Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., Best Selling Author, Spiritual Teacher, Cofounder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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“Master Mingtong Gu creates an energy field that is truly healing. I personally know three friends who, after years of seemingly insurmountable health problems, have regained their vitality and been transformed through their work with him. He’s the real deal!” James Baraz, Author, founding teacher of Awaken Joy and Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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“I came away from a twelve day retreat with Mingtong filled with a wonderful sense of aliveness, wakefulness and openheartedness. Mingtong is a compassionate healer, a wise teacher and a real force for transformation in today’s world.”
Tara Brach, Ph.D. author, clinical psychologist, cofounder of the Washington Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
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 "Master Mingtong Gu is an exquisite embodiment of being "happy for no reason." I've had the great pleasure of taking courses from Master Gu, and I continue to receive wonderful benefits from those courses and experience better health and a more joyful life. His message is a true blessing to our world that is in need of more happy chi!"
Marci Shimoff, #1 NY Times Bestselling Author,Happy for No Reason, Love For No Reason, Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul |
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"Master Mingtong Gu has brought a level of transmission of mind-body practice that is unparalleled in my experience. Since making these teachings available to patients in my medical practice, they become healthier and happier." Brian Bouch, M.D., founder of Hill Park Medical Center, associate clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine
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