Fall EARLY BIRD PRICING — CLOSES JUNE 30 , 2026
Fall 2026 · October 3 – November 1 · South West Sanctuary, New Mexico
The body is the living temple. Coming home is the Path of Rebirth.
Immersive Retreats in Wisdom Healing Qigong with Master Mingtong Gu
• On sacred land near Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Or from anywhere with an internet connection
• Beginning Saturday, October 3.
Watch this interview
learn about the benefits of retreat with Master Mingtong.
Early bird pricing closes June 30
Save up to $1,700 on your retreat investment.
There is a part of you that has been waiting.
Beneath the decisions. Beneath the logistics. Beneath the careful management of everything. That part has known for some time. It recognizes this.
What these retreats offer is beyond technique, beyond curriculum. A living container — shaped by sacred land, by decades of transmission, by the accumulated chi of everyone who has practiced here before you.
You arrive carrying what you carry. The field meets you there. And something begins.
“Sense, allow, and activate. Start where you are. Continue from what you can feel.”
— Master Mingtong Gu
WHAT THE BODY REVEALS
When Given Time, The Body Does What it has always known how to do
+16%
Energy levels
Rising consistently across the full retreat window
−12%
Stress levels
A daily softening — not just post-session relief
+11.5%
Resilience
Your capacity to respond to life
During the October 2025 30-Day Retreat at SouthWest Sanctuary, participants were measured daily using the Sputnik Bio-Well device — a clinical bio-energetic imaging system that reads the body’s energy field in real time.
The data confirmed what practitioners have long known in their bones.
The study revealed a pattern. In the first days, energy opens. The field begins to form. Around days four through nine, something shifts inward — not because healing has paused, but because something deeper is beginning. The body is releasing what it has carried for years.
By the second week, energy begins its sustained rise. By the third week, the collective field of the entire group reached a depth of coherence the instrument had not previously recorded.
This is why time matters. This is why the field holds you for thirty days, or sixteen.
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Tap Into Your Inner Knowing. Find Which Option Resonates.
Come to the land
30-Day Sacred Rebirth Retreat - Oct 3 - Nov 1, 2026
16-Day Embodied Awakening Retreat - October 3 - 18, 2026
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
Most Transformative
Join from home
16-Day Online Embodied Awakening Retreat - October 3 - 18, 2026
Join from anywhere in the world
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
The first decision is simple: come to the land, or begin from home. Everything after that is a natural deepening. Three doors are open. Each is complete in itself.
October 3–November 1, 2026
30-Day Sacred Rebirth Retreat in New Mexico
Thirty days in the chi field opens what no shorter container can. The body needs rhythm to release old patterns — and time, sustained unbroken time, to let the new ones root.
The most profound reorganization the study recorded happened in the third week — when the field had deepened, when the collective had become one resonant whole, when what you arrived carrying had moved through you.
What returns with you is a reorganized body, a repatterned nervous system, a heart that has learned a new way to move.
Thirty days in the chi field opens what no shorter container can. The body needs rhythm to release old patterns — and time, sustained unbroken time, to let the new ones root.
The most profound reorganization the study recorded happened in the third week — when the field had deepened, when the collective had become one resonant whole, when what you arrived carrying had moved through you.
What returns with you is a reorganized body, a repatterned nervous system, a heart that has learned a new way to move.
“Being in the energy field with Master Mingtong for 30 days shifted something I thought was unchangeable. I now live from my center.”
— George C., 30-Day Participant
October 3–18, 2026
16-Day Embodied Awakening Retreat In New Mexico
Sixteen days is a complete immersion. The same sacred land. The same teacher beside you each day. The same living chi field that the study measured.
The threshold the bio-energetic data revealed — the deep interior shift that begins around days four through nine — is fully within reach. You enter it. You move through it. You emerge on the other side.
Sixteen days is precisely enough time for the body’s natural purification to complete its first full cycle.
Sixteen days is a complete immersion. The same sacred land. The same teacher beside you each day. The same living chi field that the study measured.
The threshold the bio-energetic data revealed — the deep interior shift that begins around days four through nine — is fully within reach. You enter it. You move through it. You emerge on the other side.
Sixteen days is precisely enough time for the body’s natural purification to complete its first full cycle.
“I’ve done retreats all over the world. This one is different. It’s about coming home — to your body, your energy, your truth.”
— Elena R., Retreat Participant
October 3–18, 2026
16-Day Online Healing Retreat
The 16-Day Online Healing Retreat brings Master Mingtong’s direct transmission into your home. The same practices. The same chi field. The same invitation to return.
The field is not confined to the land. It is a living presence that travels — through screen, through sound, through the body of anyone who is genuinely open.
Begin here. Let what opens guide what comes next.
8-DAY ONLINE HEALING RETREAT · MAY 3–10
Your Path to the Field May Lead Through a Screen.
The 8-Day Online Healing Retreat brings Master Mingtong’s direct transmission into your home. The same practices. The same chi field. The same invitation to return.
The field is not confined to the land. It is a living presence that travels — through screen, through sound, through the body of anyone who is genuinely open. For those whose life cannot yet allow travel to New Mexico, this is the door that is open to you now.
Begin here. Let what opens guide what comes next.
FROM THOSE WHO HAVE RETURNED
Participants arrive carrying different things. The field met each of them exactly.
“At 75, my heart got still. I feel nine years younger. Connection to body dissolves fear. This is the real deal.”
“Back home, I notice the great hole in my center is no longer there. It has been filled. I am looking at the world with a sense of wonder.”
“I was a GP prescribing inhalers for ten years. I came here wondering if I could heal. I left breathing without medication.*”
“I came for physical renewal — and I received that — and I also found my true voice and a calling I had been afraid to name.”
Sam’s Story
Lisa’s Story
Judy’s Story
Carol-Ann’s Story
EARLY BIRD PRICING — CLOSES JUNE 30
All-Inclusive Retreat Packages
Early bird pricing closes June 30 at midnight PDT. Standard pricing resumes July 1.
Choose Your Retreat All-Inclusive Package
16-DAY on-Campus RETREAT October 3 - 18, 2026
Most Immersive
30-DAY on-Campus RETREAT October 3 - November 1, 2026
16-Day Online Retreat October 3 - 18, 2026
$1,889
Commuter (Tuition, supplies, and meals – No Room)
$5,581
$10,464
Standard – Double Occupancy
$6,951
$13,034
Premium – Double Occupancy
$7,537
$14,132
Standard – Single Occupancy
$8,437
$15,82
Deluxe Single Occupancy
$8,945
$16,772
Payment plans available — ask our team for details.
16-Day Online Healing Retreat
October 3 - 18, 2026- 55555
9-DAY RETREAT
MAY 2–10, 2026- Commuter (Tuition & meals – No Room) — $3,139
- Standard – Double Occupancy — $3,910
- Premium – Double Occupancy — $4,239
- Standard – Single Occupancy — $4,746
- Deluxe Single Occupancy — $5,031
16-Day On-Campus Healing Retreat
October 3 - 18, 2026- Commuter (Tuition & meals – No Room) — $5,581
- Standard – Double Occupancy — $6,951
- Premium – Double Occupancy — $7,537
- Standard – Single Occupancy — $8,437
- Deluxe Single Occupancy — $8,945
30-Day On-Campus Healing Retreat
Oct 3 - Nov 1, 2026- Commuter (Tuition & meals – No Room) — $10,464
- Standard – Double Occupancy — $13,034
- Premium – Double Occupancy — $14,132
- Standard – Single Occupancy — $15,820
- Deluxe Single Occupancy — $16,772
Payment plans available. Partial scholarships are available for those with financial need. Commuter option (tuition + meals, no lodging) available for those based locally.
THE SOUTHWEST SANCTUARY
The land is part of your Healing
150 acres of sacred high desert near Santa Fe. Vast skies that open the chest just by looking up. Ancient cottonwoods whose roots have drunk from the same arroyos for centuries. The Kiva at the center of daily practice has held thousands of hours of transmission — and the earth itself carries that history, present in its clay and stone.
When you arrive, something slows. The pace of ordinary life releases before you have done a single practice. The land and the chi field move as one here. The earth amplifies. The sky holds.
“The moment you sign up for the retreat, feel your body, feel your heart, feel your energy system start to activate differently. Your practice starts to feel different — before you even arrive.”
— Master Mingtong Gu
experience the magic of Southwest Sanctuary
DAILY RHYTHM
What Your Days Hold
🌞 Morning
Qigong movement and healing meditations with Master Mingtong. Morning practice opens you from the inside — movement and sound working through the body before the analytical mind fully wakes. Master Mingtong’s teaching follows: direct transmission, not explanation.
🌀 Midday
Teachings, rest (Chi Naps), and quiet integration. The body digesting what has moved, the energy settling into new patterns. Chef-prepared meals with local, seasonal ingredients ground you in nourishment as your energy reorganizes.
🌿 Afternoon
Nature, creativity, and embodied inquiry. Community practice amplifies what is awakening in each individual — thirty people becoming one resonant field, the coherence the study measured building day by day.
🌙 Evening
Community connection, fireside dialogue, and deepening practice. The interior quieter than it was that morning. Structure is here. And within it, the kind of freedom that only comes when you have given yourself fully to something real.
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OPTIONAL EXPLORATIONS
Further openings during free time
Free time in the retreat is integration time — the body’s time to do what it cannot do while held in practice. For those who feel called, three optional explorations are available during scheduled free periods.
AI for Healing and Soul Purpose
A living inquiry into AI as a tool of soul discovery — a mirror for purpose, for pattern recognition, for understanding what is asking to emerge in this chapter of your life.
Expanded Consciousness & Embodied Integration
Body-based practices to support integration — allowing insight to settle into the nervous system, the breath, and the energy body.
Santa Fe: Local Exploration
Santa Fe has been a gathering place for artists and healers for over a century. Integration through beauty — the practical and the profound moving together.
YOUR MASTER TEACHER
Master Mingtong Gu
“Healing is not something you receive. It is something your body remembers how to do, when given the right conditions.”
Master Mingtong Gu is the founder of The Chi Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong and architect of the Embodied Awakening movement — a living response to the modern crisis of disconnection.
Trained at the renowned medicine-less Qigong hospital in China under Dr. Pang Ming, and steeped in Buddhist and Taoist wisdom, Master Mingtong has guided thousands in reclaiming their health, vitality, and spiritual presence. He is named International Qigong Master of the Year.
His teaching is transmission-based. He doesn’t explain — he activates. Students describe his presence as both grounding and luminous. His approach integrates the Five Medicines: Body, Earth, Heaven, Community, and Essence.
He is the author of ‘Coming Home to Embodied Awakening’ and leads The Portal, The Path, and intensive retreat programs worldwide.
WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW
Common questions
Do I need prior experience in Qigong?
No experience is required. Start where you are — this is the foundation of the teaching. The field does not require preparation. It receives.
How do I choose between retreat lengths?
Feel what is possible first — in your body, in your calendar, in your life. Thirty days is the full experience; sixteen days completes the body’s first purification cycle; nine days is the entry, the initiation. Many who begin with nine return for more. Begin where you can, and let the field tell you what comes next. If you want to talk it through, our team is here: chicenter.com/conversation.
How do I choose between retreat lengths?
Feel what is possible first — in your body, in your calendar, in your life. Thirty days is the full experience; sixteen days completes the body’s first purification cycle. Many who begin with sixteen return for thirty. If you want to talk it through, our enrollment team is here: chicenter.com/conversation
What if I have health conditions or physical limitations?
Wisdom Healing Qigong is fully adaptable. Every movement practice can be done standing, seated, or lying down. Many who arrive carrying serious physical, emotional, or neurological challenges find the retreat container is precisely what their body had been waiting for.
What’s included in the all-inclusive package?
Chef-prepared meals with local, seasonal ingredients. Comfortable lodging (for on-campus options). Daily teachings, transmissions, and healing sessions with Master Mingtong. Group sessions, community integration, and embodied support.
Is financial support available?
The call to heal is real. The investment is significant. Partial scholarships and payment plans are available. Speak with our team — we want to find what is possible for you.
What happens after I register?
From the moment you register, you’ll begin receiving orientation materials and weekly dispatches to prepare your body and energy for October. The journey begins with your yes — not when you arrive on October 3.
“Power lives within. When you choose to embody it, everything changes.”
Your Body has Been Waiting for This
The sacred lands of SouthWest Sanctuary open October 3. Master Mingtong is there. The field is alive. Every door is ready.
Early bird pricing closes June 30. This is the only discounted window before October.
FTC Disclosure
Wisdom Healing Qigong is not intended to diagnose, cure, or substitute for professional medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider before beginning any wellness program. Qigong movements are adaptable for accessibility and can be done in any comfortable position — sitting, standing, or lying down. Health outcomes shared by participants reflect their personal experience and are not guaranteed. Results will vary. Copyright ChiCenter.com
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