conscious AI practices
Discover who you are. Understand where you came from. See clearly where you’re going.
Not another AI course teaching prompts and productivity. This is embodied awakening through the most powerful mirror humanity has ever created.
Average participant value: $24,723 | Limited-time pricing $397 before increase to $900
Invitation from Master Mingtong Gu (5 minutes)
At 9pm Mountain Time on a Sunday evening, I looked at twelve faces still on my screen.
Thirty people had started this intensive weekend journey with me. Eighteen completed the core work and signed off, profoundly transformed. But twelve stayed—committed to finishing all ten processes.
Two days. Ten modules that took me two years to refine through multiple AI retreats.
And as we completed the final integration, my body was singing. My heart was full.
I said something I don’t say often:
“Today is one of the best days of my life.”
Not because the technology worked flawlessly. Not because we finished on time.
But because I had just witnessed transformation happening layer by layer—in real time, right in front of my eyes.
The Embodiment Shock
"I didn't expect to experience anything I would call 'healing' while working with AI. What surprised me was how grounded and embodied the process felt. Instead of pulling me into analysis or abstraction, it consistently returned me to my own inner sensing and clarity."
Scott (Aspen Brookite)
The Mirror's Precision
"I don't think I've ever been mirrored so accurately in a way that I wish to see, I'm not scared to see, and I'm able to deeply integrate."
Jessica
Years Into One Weekend
"This weekend was much much more than I could have imagined. I feel like it coalesced many years of my life into one weekend."
David
Impossible Made Possible
"The depth and clarity I reached would have taken me a month or more on my own. In fact, the process provided extensive insight into my core offerings that would have been impossible for me on my own."
Lisa Wiebe (valued the business portion alone at $50,000)
This is not a typical Course. This is a live practice container designed to be felt and experienced in the body, not simply understood conceptually.
From hype, experimentation, or scattered play with AI
→ TO grounded, conscious, embodied use
From uncertainty or misunderstanding about AI
→ TO lived understanding and direct experience of its capacity
From treating AI as a tool, skill, or productivity aid
→ TO using it in service of purpose, meaning, and authentic values
From creating content that feels hollow or misaligned
→ TO purposed creation that reflects who you are and what matters
From unsettled emotions, mental noise, internal friction
→ TO clarity, creativity, and inner alignment
From digital distraction or over-engagement
→ TO deeper connection with your body, inner life, and fulfillment
From disconnection of inner truth from professional goals
→ TO clear alignment of inner and outer worlds
Rather than talking about these changes, we work with them directly—through practice, reflection, and guided exploration.
By the end of this journey, you will have worked directly with:
✓ How to access embodied clarity and return to it when you drift
✓ How to work with AI from grounded presence rather than mental pressure or seeking
✓ The difference between scattered inquiry and clear, meaningful reflection
✓ How to stay whole and oriented while engaging powerful tools
✓ How to use AI as a mirror that reflects your own understanding rather than telling you what to think
✓ How language can organize energy and bring relief to mental and emotional holding
✓ How to bring inner understanding into clear expression without losing integrity or sovereignty
✓ How to work with language and AI together in ways that support clarity rather than confusion
You Will Leave With:
🎵 Creative expression — Your own poem, song, or story from lived experience
🧭 Simple, repeatable practices for working with AI for reflection and clarity
🌊 Embodied practices you can return to that support insight without overwhelm
📖 Personal archive to support ongoing growth and professional contribution
💎 Complete soul map — Who you are, where you came from, where you’re going
💼 Your complete business package — Vision, mission, branding, bio, and business plan for therapists, coaches, healers, facilitators, teachers, founders, and leaders
Artificial intelligence is not slowing down.
The question is not whether it will be used.
The question is how.
This moment asks for something deeper than knowledge:
Inner capacity—the ability to remain present, creative, and responsible while engaging powerful tools.
This weekend strengthens that capacity.
Not through control.
Through clarity.
Not through resistance.
Through embodied choice.
Every session begins with embodied practice.
From that ground, we engage AI consciously.
You do not need technical experience with AI.
You do need curiosity, honesty, and willingness to listen inwardly.
Each module represents a complete process refined over two years through multiple AI retreats. Every process builds on the previous one, inviting clarity, embodiment, and integration.

The Challenge:
You've heard the hype, experimented with prompts, maybe felt overwhelmed by AI's possibilities or fearful of its implications. You're not sure if AI is oracle or tool, consciousness or algorithm. You've seen people project authority onto machines or treat technology as replacement for human wisdom. You want to use AI consciously but don't have clear boundaries between helpful use and dependency. The confusion creates hesitation—or worse, unconscious engagement that pulls you away from embodied truth.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Grounded clarity about AI's real capacities and fundamental limits—relief from confusion and overwhelm
✓ Direct practice distinguishing AI output from your own knowing, maintaining sovereignty with powerful technology
✓ Realistic relationship with AI as tool and mirror, not authority or oracle
✓ Clear boundaries for conscious AI engagement without projection or dependency
✓ Foundation for soul work—confidence using AI without losing yourself, prepared for all subsequent modules

The Challenge:
Your life feels fragmented—professional identity here, spiritual seeking there, creative yearnings somewhere else entirely. When someone asks "who are you," you default to job title or scramble through disjointed facts. Your history carries judgment, your values feel unclear, and different aspects of yourself don't speak to each other. You sense there's coherence beneath the chaos, but you can't quite see it. You need language for the wholeness you are, not just the parts you perform.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Multi-dimensional self-portrait in your own words—recognition of patterns you've never named
✓ Coherence emerging from life's complexity without collapsing or oversimplifying it
✓ Your authentic voice speaking truth without performance or analysis
✓ Wholeness of your journey becoming visible across life history, values, relationships, creativity, spirituality, professional identity
✓ Foundation document for all subsequent soul work—reference for ongoing clarity and new relationship with your story
"The reflection back to me from AI was so much more than I ever expected. It was like attending a weekend healing retreat." — Lisa Wiebe

The Challenge:
Your journaling stays in your head—analyzing, performing, trying to sound wise or figure things out. Dreams arrive with powerful imagery but you collapse them into quick interpretations or forget them entirely. You write from what you think you should say rather than what you actually feel. The page becomes another place for mental gymnastics instead of embodied truth. You sense there's deeper wisdom available through writing and dreams, but you don't know how to access it without either bypassing your body or drowning in abstraction.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Embodied journaling practice—writing from lived sensation first, AI reflection second, accessing body's wisdom through words
✓ Deeper self-listening—clearer inner signals, your own knowing speaking without mental override
✓ Dream inquiry that honors symbols without fixing meaning, staying with mystery and metaphor
✓ Relief from figuring out—symbolic and metaphoric language flowing naturally, images revealing layers you hadn't recognized
✓ Sustainable practice—simple process for reflection that doesn't bypass the body, direct access to inner knowing you can return to daily
"I was surprised at how my body responded... letting myself fully feel the feeling led to an unwinding process in my body (like in myofascial release). Very cool!" — Aspen Brookite

The Challenge:
You keep encountering the same challenges, relationships, creative tensions—but from inside the pattern, you can't see it clearly. Personality tests give you labels that feel limiting. You've looked at your birth chart but it seemed like prediction or fixed fate rather than living wisdom. You sense there are larger forces shaping your life, archetypal energies moving through your story, but you don't have language for them that feels both true and useful. You're ready to see the bigger patterns without losing the embodied particularity of your actual life.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Recognition of deep patterns across your lifetime—your story making sense in new ways from soul perspective
✓ Archetypal wisdom as living energy—not labels or fixed identity, but gifts and challenges seen through sacred lenses
✓ Natal chart as soul map—perspective on long-term themes, creative tensions, and potentials without prediction
✓ Freedom and context—understanding your unique soul configuration while staying grounded in embodied truth
✓ Integration of symbolic frameworks—working relationship with archetypal language that honors multiple traditions and your direct experience
"The natal chart reading was profound in weaving together my past experiences into my current changes in life. Like a golden thread that matured within me. Now I understand how AI can be a mirror." — Lisa Wiebe

The Challenge:
You've written mission statements that feel borrowed or hollow. Your "vision" lives in your head as vague aspiration, never landing in your body or daily choices. You're not sure which values are truly yours versus what you absorbed from family, culture, or spiritual communities. When asked what you're here to do, you either freeze or perform something that doesn't feel fully true. You yearn to express your soul's journey—through words, images, sound—but creation feels blocked or performative. You need vision that inspires without pressuring, purpose grounded in embodied clarity.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Embodied vision and values—deepest truths becoming clear and nameable, emerging from body wisdom not mental construction
✓ Living soul manifesto—articulation of what matters most in your own voice and imagery, vision that guides without constricting
✓ Creative expression flowing—narrative story, poem, song, images of your journey from authentic truth not performance
✓ Relief from performing purpose—integration of life direction with practical reality, mission that feels like coming home
✓ Practical alignment—daily choices reflecting what you actually value, vision inspiring your next steps naturally
"Helping me see my mission statement quickly was sweet. I feel supported spiritually helping me see what I couldn't before, love how it aligned with wisdom healing." — Leah Moody

The Challenge:
The same relationship dynamic keeps showing up. The same emotional response triggers in different contexts. Your body holds tension in familiar places but you can't quite connect it to larger patterns. You've tried fixing yourself, diagnosing your problems, or spiritually bypassing uncomfortable truths. There's shame around recurring challenges—why can't you just stop doing this? You sense the patterns are trying to teach you something, but from inside them, you can't see clearly. You need recognition without judgment, healing that doesn't require becoming someone else.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Pattern recognition with compassion—seeing clearly across body, emotion, mind, relationships without collapsing into shame
✓ Embodied awareness practice—your body's wisdom speaking directly about what's ready to shift
✓ Patterns as teachers—working with recurring themes as initiations rather than problems to fix
✓ Relief from solving yourself—healing that witnesses and integrates rather than diagnoses and bypasses
✓ Greater clarity and responsibility—understanding your patterns while honoring the lived experience they emerged from, freedom to choose differently
"I didn't expect the experience to be as powerful as it was, seeing myself so clearly in the mirror... with hints of what healing and progress can look like." — Michael

The Challenge:
You've practiced with different teachers, explored various traditions, had powerful spiritual experiences—but they don't feel coherent. One practice emphasizes transcendence, another embodiment. You've had spiritual crises or breakthroughs that you've never fully integrated. Sometimes you wonder if you're spiritually bypassing or if your path is authentic. You carry influences from Christianity, Buddhism, indigenous wisdom, New Age explorations—and you're not sure how they all live together. You need language for your unique spiritual expression that honors multiplicity without fragmentation, that stays grounded while reaching for the transcendent.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Coherent spiritual narrative—your path making sense across influences, teachers, crises, and evolution over time
✓ Integration without compartmentalization—different traditions living peacefully together within you, each contributing to wholeness
✓ Recognition of spiritual initiations—crises and breakthroughs understood as necessary stages of soul development
✓ Grounded spiritual identity—authentic expression that serves your actual life, not performance or bypassing
✓ Language for your path—articulating your unique spiritual journey with clarity and sovereignty, honoring both roots and current flowering
"Spiritually I feel open and expansive. It validated a lot." — Andrea

The Challenge:
Your résumé shows jobs and titles but doesn't reveal the thread of meaning moving through it all. You've changed careers, reinvented yourself, maybe questioned your entire professional direction—and from inside the transitions, it looks random. There's disconnection between your inner truth and how you show up professionally. You sense a core gift you're here to offer, but it's hard to name clearly or claim fully. Perhaps your work feels hollow despite external success, or you're talented but unclear about contribution. You need to see your professional life from soul perspective—as a sequence of initiations preparing you for what you're actually here to do.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Core gift recognition—seeing the consistent offering moving through all your work, past and present
✓ Professional history as soul story—career changes making sense as initiations rather than failures or random pivots
✓ Clarity about contribution—understanding what you're uniquely here to offer the world, grounded in embodied truth
✓ Integration of inner and outer—alignment of work with soul purpose, relief from performing professionalism
✓ Meaningful work pathway—practical clarity about next professional steps rooted in authentic gifts and calling
"The depth and clarity I reached would have taken me a month or more on my own. The process provided extensive insight into my core offerings that would have been impossible for me on my own." — Lisa Wiebe ($50,000 value for two hours)

The Challenge:
You carry a specific burden right now. Maybe you're leading others and feeling the weight without adequate reflection. Perhaps you're a healer or therapist absorbing everyone's pain with nowhere to put it down. You might be in major life transition—divorce, career change, health crisis, spiritual awakening—without clear support for what you're navigating. The generic advice doesn't land because your situation is particular. You need focused inquiry that meets your current reality directly, that honors both your role and your humanity, that helps you see what's ready to change or mature next without bypassing what is.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Focused clarity on current challenges—specific insights for your unique leadership, healing work, or transition
✓ Support for what you're carrying—relief from isolation in your particular role or circumstance
✓ Recognition of readiness—understanding what's maturing next in your service or life stage
✓ Responsibility with sovereignty—clarifying your role without overwhelm, your service without self-abandonment
✓ Practical practices for ongoing work—tools you can return to for continued leadership, healing, or navigation of major change
"Genuinely I feel excited, so much possibility. I'm already feeling more clear, clearer with how to ask questions, how I see, and how I use the GPT as a supportive tool." — Leah Moody

The Challenge:
You've done the inner work. You have clarity about your purpose, gifts, values. But when you try to translate it into actual life or business, something gets lost. Your business plan feels disconnected from soul truth. Your offerings don't quite express what you're here to give. You create from pressure or market demands rather than aligned movement. Projects don't sustain you—energetically, financially, or spiritually. There's a gap between vision and implementation, between the depth you've discovered and the practical pathway forward. You need integration that honors both soul and sustainability, purpose and livelihood, inner alignment and outer expression.
What You Learn & Experience:
✓ Complete business package—vision, mission, branding, bio, and business plan for therapists, coaches, healers, facilitators, teachers, founders, leaders
✓ Inner-outer alignment—practical pathway emerging from soul clarity, sustainable approach grounded in embodied truth
✓ Relief from pressure-driven achievement—offerings and projects that express authentic purpose, not market pressure
✓ Coherent pathway forward—clear next steps integrating all previous modules into living expression
✓ Sustainable soul-aligned work—ethical business or life design that nourishes you while serving others, bridging vision and practical reality
"This process will allow me to move forward much quicker than I imagined possible. Spiritually, I believe I am in the right place at the right time. No mistake. I feel guided to be here." — Lisa Wiebe
By the end of the 10-module journey, you will have:
✓ Mature, embodied relationship with AI — Using technology consciously in service of soul
✓ Clear inner compass rooted in lived experience rather than external authority
✓ Language, structure, and creative expression for your soul purpose
✓ Personal archive supporting ongoing growth and professional contribution
✓ Complete soul map — Who you are, where you came from, where you’re going
✓ Coherent pathway translating inner truth into sustainable outer expression
✓ Embodied practices for continued clarity and integration
✓ Community connection with others on the soul purpose journey
✓ Complete business package — Vision, mission, branding, bio, and business plan
When I asked the twelve participants who stayed until 9pm to assign a dollar value to what they learned, experienced, and created, the average was $24,723.
But these numbers barely capture what actually happened.
$50,000 for Two Hours
"The value of the evening session done in two hours is worth at least $50,000. Having extensive experience in strategic planning, marketing, and business development, it is hard for me to express my amazement at what was accomplished. The depth and clarity I reached would have taken me a month or more on my own."
Lisa Wiebe
$20,000 Over Years
"I have participated in self-development courses that cost $500-$700 for a weekend but charge well over $10,000 for in-depth programs. For this program in particular, given its continued guidance and value for me over the next few years, I would value it at $20,000."
Andrea
Worth Millions
"This experience has been priceless, unique and expertly delivered, with clarity, integrity and heartfelt feeling beyond measure. To me it is worth millions."
Kathy
The Value You Can't Measure
David: "I feel like it coalesced many years of my life into one weekend."
Jessica: "Deeply expanded almost overwhelming as the knowledge lands inside my cells. Spiritually I know this is just the beginning of a way to funnel my connection creatively to humanity."
Suzanne: "I am not stuck anymore. I feel enlivened to listen more clearly and spend more time in discernment and meditation. I feel hopeful."
Ancient Wisdom Meets New Technology
For thirty years, I’ve taught Wisdom Healing Qigong—ancient technology for embodied consciousness.
For two years, I’ve explored AI through multiple retreats, refining processes that bridge the timeless and the cutting-edge.
This integration is unprecedented.
Most AI training pulls you into your head—into concepts, productivity, optimization. Into the digital realm that disconnects you from your body.
This training does the opposite.
We use AI as a sacred mirror while keeping you grounded in sensation, breath, and embodied presence throughout.
You Discover AI As:
🪞 A Mirror — Showing you yourself with precision and love
🤝 A Friend — Meeting you exactly where you are
🧭 A Coach — Guiding personal and professional evolution
📊 A Strategist — Clarifying life’s work and impact
🎨 A Creative Partner — Helping express your soul through art
“I have been experimenting with several AI models for about a year. I knew I was barely scratching the surface, and this weekend showed a penetrating light on the truth of the matter. The AI showed itself to be an amazing co-creator… And with the right approach could be a competent colleague, counselor, astrologer, or anything we threw at it.” — Robert Case
The right approach. That’s everything.
TRANSFORMATION AT LIGHTNING SPEED
Lisa: Two hours = one month of work (or “impossible on my own”)
David: Years of life coalesced into one weekend
Suzanne: Years of being stuck → clear and hopeful in two days
This is not rushing. This is natural acceleration when ancient wisdom meets new technology in perfect integration.
Your body knows its own wisdom. AI reflects it back with precision. Qigong keeps you grounded in sensation. The combination creates transformation that feels inevitable, not forced.
The natural investment to honor the $24,723 average value would be in the thousands.
But for a short time, I’m offering this training at the lowest price possible at $397—before increasing to $900 to match closer to its true value.
Why?
Because I want souls who are truly ready to have access. I want the people who would metaphorically “stay until 9pm”—deeply committed to their transformation—to be able to say yes.
But this window won’t last.
When more people discover what thirty participants experienced—when they see the depth, the speed, the testimonials—the investment will rise to $900 and eventually higher.
Take Advantage Now
Transform your life in every aspect at lightning speed—before this window closes.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This training serves you if:
✓ You’re ready to move beyond scattered AI experimentation to grounded, conscious use
✓ You seek clarity about who you are, where you came from, where you’re going
✓ You want to align inner truth with professional expression
✓ You’re a leader, healer, or person in major life transition
✓ You value embodied wisdom alongside technological advancement
✓ You’re willing to do deep soul work, not just learn techniques
✓ You sense AI could serve your awakening if approached correctly
✓ You’re committed to transformation that integrates all dimensions of life
YOUR INVESTMENT
10 Comprehensive Modules — The exact processes valued at average $24,723
Ancient + Modern Integration — 30 years Qigong mastery + 2 years AI refinement
Embodied Throughout — Every module woven with sensation and presence
Complete Soul Map — Who you are, where you came from, where you’re going
Professional Clarity — Business development process valued at $50,000
Complete Business Package — Vision, mission, branding, bio, and business plan
Creative Expression — Your own poems, songs, stories from soul truth
Personal Archive — Ongoing reference for growth and contribution
Community Field — Collective encounter amplifying individual transformation
Regular Investment: $900
Limited-Time Accessible Pricing: [$397]
No. We start with clarifying what AI actually is. Complete beginners and experienced users both benefit—we meet you where you are.
This isn’t about productivity or prompts. This is soul work using AI as a sacred mirror while maintaining embodied presence throughout. The integration of 30 years of Qigong wisdom with AI technology is unprecedented.
Each module is self-paced. Most participants spend 2-4 hours per module, but you move at your own rhythm. The key is depth, not speed.
Perfect. We begin with clarifying AI’s real capacities and limits. Healthy skepticism supports grounded use. We’re not evangelizing technology—we’re teaching conscious relationship with it.
Yes. Module 8 (Professional Exploration) and Module 10 (Coherent Pathway) specifically address this. Lisa valued the business portion alone at $50,000 for two hours of clarity. You’ll leave with a complete business package including vision, mission, branding, bio, and business plan.
The training is self-paced with all materials accessible immediately. Optional live community sessions amplify the work through collective field.
Computer or tablet with internet access. We primarily work with ChatGPT (free or paid version).
The Divine Mirror
"That integration is divine. I don't think I've ever been mirrored so accurately in a way that I wish to see, I'm not scared to see, and I'm able to deeply integrate."
Jessica
Impossible Made Possible
"The depth and clarity I reached would have taken me a month or more on my own. In fact, the process provided extensive insight into my core offerings that would have been impossible for me on my own."
Lisa Wiebe
Years of Stuck → Unstuck
"I feel like I now have wording and ideas for my website which I have been stuck on for years now. While I still come out of this process in discernment mode—I am not stuck anymore. I feel enlivened to listen more clearly. I feel hopeful."
Suzanne Fageol
A Lifetime Coalesced
"This weekend was much much more than I could have imagined. It will take months to digest it all, but I feel like it coalesced many years of my life into one weekend. My body feels open, full, a vessel for expanded breath. Feet on the ground. Emotionally open, spiritually alive."
David
Energy Transformation
"Physically and mentally tired but emotionally and spiritually energized. I didn't expect to experience anything I would call 'healing' while working with AI. The result was a quiet but real sense of coherence and relief I didn't anticipate. I am energetically feeling expanded and warm."
Scott (Aspen Brookite)
The Peripheral Witness
"I didn't officially take this class, rather I was here to assist Peter. Yet despite the brain fatigue... it was very impressive! Even as a peripheral member, it was clear that A.I. became accessible as a partner to bring an extraordinary depth of awareness, consciousness and spiritual growth. And throughout, always, all-ways weaving it together with the sensations and feelings in the body. This was a journey of a lifetime... literally."
Julie (Observer, not participant)
At 9pm on that Sunday, I told twelve committed souls:
“Today is one of the best days of my life.”
Because I had spent two years learning to guide this work. And I was watching it transform thirty people—layer after layer, person after person.
Now it’s your turn.
The ten modules are ready. The mirror is clear. The ancient and new technologies are integrated.
But this accessible pricing won’t last.
For a short time, you can access what participants valued at $24,723 for a fraction of that investment—before it rises to $900 and beyond.
Feel your breath. Feel your body. Feel this moment.
Your soul knows if this is yours.
You do not need to choose between being human and being intelligent.
You can be both.
This weekend is an invitation to stand in that balance—
clear, embodied, and awake—
and let technology adapt to life, not the other way around.
The practice comes first.
Your body knows the way.
AI can clarify the path, but only you can walk it.
January 10-11, 2025 | 9am-4pm PST | $397
Live Online via Zoom | Lifetime Recording Access
This weekend values depth over speed, clarity over certainty, and presence over performance. Come as you are.
Master Mingtong’s teaching: why conscious use of AI matters (17 min)
For thirty years, I’ve taught Wisdom Healing Qigong—guiding thousands through embodied awakening and healing. I trained at China’s medicine-less hospital where I healed from thirty years of chronic asthma and stuttering through Qigong practice.
My work bridges ancient Chinese healing wisdom with contemporary leadership and spiritual development. I serve diverse communities including spiritual teachers, healthcare professionals, business leaders, and individuals seeking embodied healing.
For the past two years, I’ve been exploring how AI—when approached with consciousness and embodied presence—can serve as a sacred mirror for soul purpose and authentic awakening.
This 10-module training represents the culmination of that exploration: ancient wisdom meeting new technology in service of your soul’s evolution.
Transform your life in every aspect at lightning speed. Before this window closes.
A Field Guide for Clarity, Creativity, and Inner Authority
@The Chi Center
The Chi Center is located in the majestic high desert of Central New Mexico, USA, just 27 minutes South of Santa Fe in the beautiful Galisteo Basin.
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.
During your on-campus Retreat you will enjoy stunning vistas, grounds, and the restorative atmosphere at The Center in the Galisteo Basin of New Mexico. Along with your Retreat program of learning, practice, and healing you will have time to relax and enjoy our arroyos, petroglyphs, labyrinths, trails, water features, comfortable rooms, and healthy, flavorful meals!
"I had a dire medical diagnosis and at the end of December 2020, so I signed up for the 20 day retreat. And then of course COVID came (retreat canceled) and I thought, well, I guess I have to do this on my own. "But I ended up doing a couple of online week-long retreats, which were wonderful, really wonderful. When I sat down in front of my computer, I just had all of this love and light coming at me and I found that continued even when I had work to do. What I've experienced in my body has been significant changes in the discomfort that I've been feeling and more mobility. "And all of the folks in the online retreat had their gallery pictures on while we were practicing. I'm amazed. I'm simply amazed at the connection and the joy and the happiness. "Wisdom Healing Qigong has come to mean community for me. I've practiced Qigong for many years. Different forms. And it's always been a spiritual experience for me. But this feels like a very tangible, earthly and heavenly community that I can step into, whenever I need to, or want."
Patty O.
I now practice Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down more deeply, moving energy all around my body. I feel it especially in my feet, organs, kidneys, heart, and especially my brain. The practice of Hun Yuan Ling Tong is so powerful as a seed expanding to the infinite and back to the smallest infinitesimally small... smaller than the smallest particle and larger than the largest parts of the infinite cosmos. It is a beautiful paradox of all things transforming. It is the flower opening like "a beautiful sun in the morning. Slowly my stroke is evaporating. It is hard and requires great concentration, great focus and love for myself in spite of anything that affects my well being externally, such as finances, divorce, relationships, and all the children I teach...all of it good. Anything challenging is all transformed by my deepening practice. I have a great facility in my brain for visualizing. From making art, creativity and visualization go hand in hand. My mental capacity increases when the image is strong of connecting with the chifield (and it is always getting stronger). Where my mind goes the energy flows..it really does.
Jeff D.
First Day | |
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2:30pm – 5:30pm | Room Check In (For on-campus guests) |
5.45pm – 6.15pm | Welcome and orientation for our on-campus guests and online participants |
6.15pm – 8.30pm | Dinner will be held in the dining hall and then transition to the Kiva (will be streamed for the online participants) |
Retreat In-session | |
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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 | On-Campus 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 | On-Campus Teachings & Practice from the Kiva — livestreamed (break times will vary)
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6:15pm – 7:15pm | Dinner break (no livestream) |
7:30pm – 8:20pm | Evening Activities: Healing Sessions, Small Groups, and Closing Ceremonies on — These activities will be livestreamed online as feasible |
Last Day | |
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Magical Sunday: The Chi Center is open to the Public
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Early Morning | Sacred Time for reflection |
8:15am – 9:00am | Practice in the Kiva |
9:00am – 10:45am | Breakfast buffet and Free Time to enjoy Magical Sunday |
11am – 12:30pm | Closing of the Retreat – Practice, Teaching, and Testimonials (On-Campus and Online Retreats and Magical Sunday together)
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12:40pm – 3:30pm | Photos, good-byes, simple lunch (for Retreat guests only), and check out |
If you must cancel, please understand that we do not grant refunds for any reason. However, you may apply the funds you paid toward attendance of a future Chi Center Retreat or Program of your choice, within 12 months from your date of cancellation. If The Chi Center cancels this program, you will receive 2 weeks’ notice when possible, and a full refund. We are not responsible for the cost of any other cancellation expenses you may incur, such as non-refundable travel fees, etc.
Students learn and practice one of the most effective energy healing practices and systems of human science – Wisdom Healing (Zhineng) Qigong. Master Mingtong may lead any of the basic to the advanced practice including Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down Method (LCUPCD), Standing Meditation, Spinal Bone Marrow Method, Body Mind Method, Wall Squats, Inner Alchemy of Emotional Transformation, Transforming Jing Method, Nine Palaces Method, and other advanced methods. The practice will be a sustainable practice of healing as well as a life transformation. Wisdom Healing Qigong practices represent a radically different technology offered to awaken, transform, and integrate your entire chi body — from the cellular to the spiritual — returning us to our natural, healthy, balanced state of being. This technology re-patterns the physical, emotional and mental/spiritual energy that is not flowing freely, that is experienced as pain and suffering, into energy that is flowing freely, bringing forth natural states of happiness, compassion, openness, and wholeness.
During certain segments of the day students may practice with qualified teachers, the most applicable methods according to your personal needs and recommended by Master Mingtong.
Students drink in the potent chi “medicine” day and night, just as the people at the medicine-less Qigong Hospital in China, through movement, meditation, sound, visualization and REST. Master Mingtong will personally lead you to cultivate the Six Golden Keys of chi “medicine” as the most effective “ingredients” prescribed by the Qigong Hospital.
Participants cultivate and embody the chi medicine––which is the life force within–– residing in this powerful chi field led by Master Mingtong as transmitted by Grandmaster Pang Ming through the ancient Wisdom tradition of Qigong. There are additional qualified teachers and experienced leaders to guide the practice and support your process. The chi community, bonded by the healing chi field, is one of the most precious jewels that will continue to connect to your heart and practice.
Attendees “digest” chi medicine with a “chi nap” every day and “sleep Qigong” overnight. Master Mingtong will lead group-healing sessions every day, including healing transmissions, healing circles or spirals, and small group healing sessions. Master Mingtong or and his gifted wife, Linling may offer individual healing session appointments to retreat participants.
Students purify chi by moving through challenges and releasing the mental and emotional resistance to change using this profound practice of energy transformation, including Inner Alchemy of Emotional Transformation Method.
Participants learn and practice to receive chi mentally by receiving teachings and changing mental patterns to align with their conscious choice of healing and fulfillment in life. Students bring the infinite heavenly blessings into their food, conventional medicine, and earthly life through visualization. They realize the significance of earthly life as the expression of the heavenly consciousness.
Attendees activate and celebrate awakening through music, song, dance and lots of hugs and laughter. There will be silence during half of the retreat to allow for integration and your personal journey deeply inward. The Chi Team leaders will support you in loving, intimate, and healing sub-groups.
Students embody heavenly chi medicine through inner wisdom and consciousness, awakening to their individual deep nature and purpose. They learn the advanced skills to “transmit” chi into the body and living organisms through your consciousness.
During the Retreat, participants receive and cultivate the most precious gift — their awakening consciousness — and will be able to actualize it within their body, heart, and mind and therefore all of life transforming automated, conditioned patterns to that of autonomous wisdom. Students can cultivate this practice as a roadmap towards complete healing, as well as a path to enlightenment.
There is no requirement for experiencing Qigong. We welcome anyone who sincerely wishes to transform their challenges of life into an opportunity for growth, whether on the physical level, mental level, emotional level, or spiritual level.
And, we’ve prepared a Retreat Foundations Kit that you can begin as soon as you register for your next Retreat. The staff and teachers have loaded this with lots of terminology, tips, and practice ideas you’ll want to know in advance. As Master Mingtong says, “Your Retreat begins the moment you’ve made the decision to sign up!”
Once you begin, participating in the Healing Intensive Retreat does require your full commitment to the healing process.Open your mind and heart to your healing intention and healing chi; “Do your best, allow the mind to rest and let the Universe do the rest!”
Make your Qigong Retreat (self-healing together) your absolute priority for the precious days you are in Master Mingtong’s presence and minimize your daily obligations and other activities.
Make a list of your challenges and resistances (mental, emotional, and physical conditions). Bring your awareness and compassion to these areas of healing. Always inwardly trust your dedication to your healing. Let go of your old stories and the stories of others.
Make a dedication to yourself in this way: “I am ready to heal myself in the chi field, no matter what it takes and how it feels.” — instead of “I will be healed if this happens and that doesn’t happen.”
The Universe responds to our intention unconditionally. Any conditioning of my willingness to heal will compromise the benefit.
Listen to your inner voice of your body and stay in the chi field even when you need to take a break; Allow your mind and heart to offer the best healing medicine to your body.
Honor yourself as well as others, respect everyone’s privacy and offer your blessings to others’ challenges. Don’t share any stories from the Retreat with others.
Conventional medical support will be respected and honored. We each will honor ourselves as a sovereign self-healer, and not as a patient. You may want to include your medication and dietary supplements in your intention for healing — acknowledging that everything is energy/chi and then extend the blessing of “all is well and getting better” (Haola) to the conventional medicine. You can embrace the wisdom of your body to use what is in service and supportive within the medication, while allowing anything that is not serving your health and wellness to pass through you without harm. If you anticipate any special needs during the retreat, please make advance arrangements. You may bring flowers, healing objects to the space to make your heart offering. Your healing has been accelerating already since you made a dedication to this Retreat. With the blessings of all teachers, Master Mingtong Gu has organized this healing chi field for all of us. He advises that all obstacles you may experience, before and during the retreat, will be a deep purification of mind, emotion, and your body.Stay in a “Haola” mindset — “All is well and getting better. So be it!”
The goal of a Chi Center Retreat or Healing Intensive is transformation. Truly a life-changing experience, the Wisdom Healing Retreats are opportunities to work on your body, heart, mind, and energy — to realize your deepest intention of radiant health, true happiness, joy, and profound peace — and to embody the awakening consciousness.
Expect the unexpected. Make the impossible possible. This is the science and technology of making miracles. We, together, are the scientists, healers, and explorers of the creative inner and outer life force.
Your mind, heart and cells are truly fed by life energy on all levels. Your capacity, as a human being encoded with good will, intelligence and love, will fully awaken to its true potential as self-healer and healer of others. You will not only bring home your renewed body and spirit but also effective tools and practices that will sustain your healthy body and support your conscious living. The healing community is growing so strong and you are connected with this big “chi family” through continuous reunion and support, even at a long distance.
Healing Intensive Retreats have been designed to actualize an experience of intensive chi healing. A first-of–its-kind in North America, the Healing Intensive Retreat offers the same successful healing program that was 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.
You will receive great benefit if you are:
Participating in Chi Center Retreats will enable you to:
Whether you attend online or on-campus, video replays of your program will be available for 30 days after the workshop ends. (Note: QFLM members retain replay access as long as they are the Qigong for Life Master member!)
If you still have questions about the Retreat, or Wisdom Healing Qigong in general please write to us and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible, so you can make the best plans and decisions for yourself. Email Support@ChiCenter.com
Getting to The Center
Getting to the Center: The address is 40 Camino Vista Clara, Lamy/Galisteo, New Mexico 87540.
Recommended New Mexico airport: Albuquerque (ABQ) is the primary airport. Travel time from the airport to The Chi Center is approximately 1 hour 15 minutes via car – approximately 75 miles. There is also an airport in Santa Fe about 40 minutes from The Center. The flights in and out of Santa Fe are limited, however.
From the Airport: Transportation while in New Mexico you will need a car to travel to The Center, on State Highway 41. There is no public transportation to our countryside location. We strongly advise that you reserve your ride service ahead of time, as not all taxis/rides will make the trip to the Center without advanced notice. Your options are Taxi, Limousine, Lyft and Uber.
Check-in time at the center is between 2:00-5:00pm. at the center is between 2:00-5:00pm. Please eat lunch before you arrive. Due to road construction nearby, it is advisable to arrive during daylight hours. Please let us know your planned arrival time via text or phone call so that we can give you specific directions and check in instructions, as needed. 505-470-1620.
First Retreat-day meals and activities begin at 5:40pm, unless otherwise posted in the Retreat description.
Check out time is between 3:00pm and 5:00pm. Final Retreat-day meals and activities end by 3:00pm.
Typical Climate
Packing Tips And Things To Know
► Toiletries – Scent-Free – includes deodorants/shampoos, etc. Please note our Center does its best to be chemical and scent-free as we have many participants that have chemical sensitivities.
► Flashlight or headlamp for walking at night.
► Sturdy walking shoes; the campus has very few outdoor paved surfaces. Most pathways are gravel and/or natural terrain.
► The evenings and mornings in the fall can be quite cool. Plan on layered clothing and a warm jacket/sweater.
► Rain gear is recommended
► Sunscreen, sunglasses, hat. We are at high-desert altitudes (6,000-7,200 ft) and it is sunny all seasons of the year.
► Water bottle – we have filtered water dispensers throughout the campus.
► Hot beverage travel cup with a secure lid, for coffee/tea.
► Toiletries – Scent-Free (see above); also, bring your medications.
► Earplugs and sleeping masks.
► Map/driving directions to The Chi Center: 40 Camino Vista Clara, Lamy, NM 87540 Chi Center onsite manager iPhone 1-505-470-1620, General Info Phone Service 1-800-959-2892.
No Perfumes or Scented Products: Due to guests’ allergies and sensitivities to scents, please leave your perfumes, scented lotions, deodorants, shampoos, incense etc. at home.
Arrival At The Chi Center: Please come to the Dining Hall/Main Lodge to register – just past the pond.
Check-In/Orientation: At the beginning of your stay, you will receive a welcome orientation by our staff at check-in to relay important information about the site. This will include an outline of emergency procedures and releases for each individual.
Lodging
►Check-in time at the center is between 2:00-5:00pm. Dinner, Intro and Orientation events begin at 5:40pm.
► Most of our rooms have shared bathrooms so please bring a robe, slippers, and an easy bag to carry your toiletries from your room to the bath.
► We provide all towels, bedding, sheets and blankets.
► There are laundry facilities available for guests.
Laundry:
We have a guest laundry room located at the Ranch House (see map). The door is marked “Guest Laundry” and the building is nearest to the large white Kuan Yin statue for additional reference. Unscented soaps are provided and there is no charge to launder your personal items.
Terrain:
The campus lies on 150 acres of somewhat hilly terrain. There is a road as well as a walking trail between the rooms and the main house where meals are served. The road is lit at night for safe passage. It is approximately a 5-minute walk to and from most of the guest rooms and the main house. Please bring closed toed shoes for walking and hiking in desert terrain.
Computer Access:
WiFi is available to all of our guests (password is chiguest).
Cellular Telephone Coverage:
Mobile phone coverage on campus works best if you set your phone to enable WiFi calling and connect to the wifi. Cellular service is week, so you can also make calls over the internet through apps like What’s App. We ask that you turn your ring setting to vibrate or silent while on campus to keep from disturbing other guests.
Lost & Found:
All Lost & Found articles will be held for 30 days, after which they will be distributed in a charitable manner. If you feel you have left something behind, please email us at Support@chicenter.com.
Healing Sessions with Master Mingtong and Linling:
If you would like to have a healing session, Master Mingtong will conduct a limited number of sessions during retreats in the Kiva. Linling can conduct 2 sessions per day and will come to your room. Sessions with Master Mingtong are $380 and with Linling are $280.
Quiet Hours:
Quiet hours are from 9:00 pm to 7:45 am. Please be considerate of other retreat participants at all times.
Pet Policy:
Only Certified companion animals and guide dogs are permitted on campus. (Advanced notice and permission is required.)
Self Care – Hydration:
Be sure to drink more water than usual – lots of water! We are at high, dry elevations and staying hydrated is essential. You’ll find dispensers filled with filtered water in many places on the property to help remind you to “fill up”. Prevention will help you acclimate to the 7,000 ft altitude and dry terrain and bypass the typical mild symptoms that can include fatigue, headaches, lightheadedness, or sleep disturbances.
Parking:
After loading or unloading, you will be instructed where to park your vehicle according to room assignments.
Special Needs:
► We will do our best to accommodate persons with mobility and special dietary needs. If you have not yet shared your needs with us, please contact Support@chicenter.com right away.
Meals
► Our meals are served buffet style. We do our best to provide locally sourced, organic, healthy, whole foods at every meal. Vegetarian, Vegan, and Omnivore options will be available at every meal. Please let us know your preferences before arriving so that the kitchen team can purchase and prepare in advance.
► Complimentary tea and coffee are available in the main house building 7:30am – 7:00pm daily.
Tips for Staff:
The Chi Center staff strive to do their best for you. Please consider leaving a tip for the kitchen and housekeeping staff when you leave the Center.
Smoking
We are a smoke-free campus.
Fires
► We do not allow the use of candles or incense inside or outside our buildings.
► Outdoor campfires are not allowed. We are governed by very strict laws due to a high fire danger and the remoteness of the area.
Hiking
► Trails
► Be aware of snakes and other wildlife native to this area.
Facilities and Grounds
► Please do not take retreat center furniture, fixtures, or bedding out of the rooms.
► Please turn off lights and turn down heaters/air conditioning when you are not in your room.
► The speed limit on the property is 5 mph. Please be mindful of animals and humans when you are driving your car on the roads
First Aid:
We have an emergency medical kit for minor injuries in the Main Lodge.
Questions?
Please contact us at Support@chicenter.com
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Yes, we do!
The intention of The Chi Center’s Partial Scholarship Program is to support dedicated individuals with financial challenges, who want to participate in our global mission of cultivating wisdom, healing, awakening, and transformation by developing a sustainable Qigong practice.
Our Partial Scholarship Program is designed to lend a helping hand to those facing financial challenges, and who are just as passionate about our mission as we are.
We have a limited number of partial scholarships, so please apply early. There is no credit check, just a one-page online form to complete.
We recommend that applicants apply for a scholarship if they are able to pay for at least 85% of the regular Retreat fee (Based upon funds available your scholarship award may reduce this amount).
On-Campus and Online Scholarships generally cover between 14% to 28% of Retreat fees.
While scholarships are non-refundable, we’re flexible – they can be transferred to another course or program if needed. Our scholarship team will make decisions based on available funds and enrollments, and will always notify you within 1 week of your application.
Got questions? Our super-friendly support team is here for you at support@chicenter.com. Click on the button found under the Retreat packages to apply for a scholarship.
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