COME HOME TO YOURSELF | The Embodied Awakening Daylong Immersion
A full day of Wisdom Healing Qigong, meditation, sound healing & embodied practice. Awaken Your Natural Capacity For Healing.
Join Master Mingtong Gu for a live Wisdom Healing Qigong immersion featuring gentle movement, sound, meditation, and direct transmission—online or at Southwest Sanctuary, Santa Fe NM.
Sunday, October 4, 2026 · Live Online 9–5pm MT · In Person at Southwest Sanctuary, Santa Fe NM
Join Master Mingtong Gu for a live Wisdom Healing Qigong immersion featuring gentle movement, sound, meditation, and direct transmission—online or at SouthWest Sanctuary, Santa Fe NM.
Sunday, October 4, 2026 · Live Online 9–5pm MT · In Person at Southwest Sanctuary, Santa Fe NM
Is This Day for You?
This immersion may be for you if:
- Your mind rarely stops, but your energy feels depleted.
- You are caring for everything around you while losing connection with yourself.
- You understand what you need intellectually, but cannot always feel your way forward.
- You want greater vitality, clarity, and inner steadiness—not simply more information.
You do not need previous Qigong or meditation experience. You only need a willingness to begin exactly where you are.
The Way Back Begins In The Body
More and more of life pulls our attention outward.
Screens.
Information.
Decisions.
Artificial intelligence.
Constant change.
The mind becomes faster while the body is asked to keep up.
Wisdom Healing Qigong begins with a simple movement in the opposite direction:
Reconnect mind and body.
When attention returns to the body, sensation becomes available again.
When sensation becomes available, energy becomes easier to feel.
Over time, you can begin to feel depleted, ungrounded, and disconnected from yourself—even when everything appears fine from the outside.
This is the doorway to Embodied Awakening.
One connection begins changing everything else—your relationship with your body, your energy, your emotions, your healing, your choices and your sense of purpose.
October 4 gives you one uninterrupted day to enter that doorway.
Ancient Wisdom For A Time Of Acceleration
Wisdom Healing Qigong is an ancient energetic practice brought into the realities of modern life.
Through movement, sound, meditation, visualization and the conscious use of the mind, we learn to reconnect with the body and cultivate a more direct relationship with the energy of life.
The practice does not ask you to withdraw from a changing world. It gives you a way to meet that world without losing connection with yourself.
This is the central invitation of Coming Home to Embodied Awakening: reclaim your body, your power and your purpose in the age of AI and disruption.
The body becomes an anchor.
Energy becomes a resource.
Practice becomes a relationship.
And wisdom becomes something you live.
What People Experience When They Come Back To The Body
“Coming back to the body enabled me to come back to everything else: my wife, my kids, my grandkids, in a new light.”
— Jay
“The little girl in me is back—full swing. When she’s back, the head disappears. Things are more spontaneous.”
— Deanna
“I felt like my brain became weightless, floating just above my head. An unknown old pattern lifting away. There is a quiet, peaceful, electric aliveness dancing within this body of mine.”
— Kerry
Every person’s experience is different. These stories are not promises of what will happen for you. They point to what can become available when the body is given time, attention, practice and support.
This Is Embodied Awakening
Embodied Awakening begins when wisdom moves beyond something you understand and becomes something you can feel, experience and live.
Through the practices of Wisdom Healing Qigong—movement, sound, meditation, visualization, and conscious connection with energy—you begin to experience wisdom through the body, not only understand it through the mind.
Your mind softens.
Your body opens.
Your energy begins to move.
You may experience greater vitality, joy and peace.
You may feel a deeper connection with yourself.
You may discover clarity about something in your life that thinking alone has been unable to resolve.
Healing and awakening begin to reveal themselves as parts of the same movement toward wholeness.
You are not coming simply to collect another technique.
You are coming to experience yourself differently.
For The First Time In Years: A Deep Focus On Lift Chi Up, Pour Chi Down
One of the foundational practices of Wisdom Healing Qigong, Lift Chi Up, Pour Chi Down—LCUPCD—was a principal method emphasized in the medicine-less Qigong center in China where Master Mingtong trained.
The practice is simple in form:
Open.
Expand.
Gather.
Receive.
Through gentle movement, attention and visualization, LCUPCD trains the body and mind to participate consciously in the exchange between the energy within us and the larger field of energy around us.
The outward movement cultivates opening and expansion.
The inward movement cultivates gathering and receiving.
With practice, energetic awareness can gradually deepen—from the hands and surface of the body toward a more interior felt experience.
On October 4, Master Mingtong will guide not only the outer movement, but the deeper energetic purpose behind it: how to relax, how to use the mind, how to visualize, how to receive and how to feel the practice from within.
For new students, this is an accessible doorway into the energetic foundation of Wisdom Healing Qigong.
For longtime practitioners, it is an opportunity to return to a familiar method with renewed precision, transmission and depth.
One Full Day Inside A Living Chi Field
There is a depth of practice that becomes easier to access when we stop carrying the whole process alone.
Master Mingtong calls the shared energetic environment created through collective practice the Chi Field.
As people practice together—with intention, movement, sound, meditation and awareness—the field accumulates.
The practice deepens.
The body becomes more receptive.
What felt inaccessible can begin to soften and open.
Master Mingtong teaches live from within this field, responding to the people present and to what is unfolding in the moment.
The experience is alive.
You arrive as you are.
And together, we discover what opens.
“Every group is different. I teach each retreat as if it is the first time. That is how we create real change.”
— Master Mingtong Gu
What You May Experience
Every person’s experience is different, but participants often describe changes that reach beyond the hours of practice:
→ A deeper connection with your body and yourself
→ Greater vitality, energy and aliveness
→ Deep peace, joy and inner spaciousness
→ More clarity, hope and a sense of your next step
→ Greater confidence in your own capacity for healing and practice
→ A direct experience of what Embodied Awakening actually means
Your experience may be subtle or powerful.
You may feel more energy.
You may feel quiet.
You may feel emotion moving.
You may simply feel more present.
You begin exactly where you are.
Why One Full Day?
A class gives you practice.
A full day gives the practice time to accumulate.
A short session can open something real.
Then the phone rings.
The next meeting begins.
The mind returns to what comes next.
A full day creates a different rhythm.
You arrive.
You stop rushing.
The body begins to trust that it will not immediately be pulled away again.
Movement has time to deepen.
Stillness has time to deepen.
The Chi Field has time to build.
The difference is less about learning more.
It is about staying long enough to experience more.
Why Can One Day Go Deeper?
TIME
The body needs uninterrupted space to open. A moment can offer a glimpse. Several hours give that opening time to deepen.
PRACTICE
Repetition turns an idea into lived experience. What begins as learning a movement can gradually become something the body recognizes and remembers.
TEACHING & TRANSMISSION
Direct guidance from a master teacher can help you recognize dimensions of practice that are difficult to discover through technique alone—the quality of relaxation, the use of the mind, energetic intention and the subtle feeling within the movement.
COMMUNITY & THE CHI FIELD
Individual practice builds capacity. Collective practice amplifies connection. The field supports each person while each person contributes to the field.
One day brings all four together.
Retreat allows them to continue.
FOR THOSE JOINING IN PERSON
Step Into A Retreat Already In Motion
For October 4, the in-person experience is especially unique.
The retreat at SouthWest Sanctuary, Santa Fe NM begins October 3.
By the time you enter the Lotus Kiva on October 4, the retreat community will already have arrived and begun practicing together. The shared intention will be present, and the Chi Field will already be forming.
You are not simply arriving for a standalone one-day workshop. You are entering a dedicated retreat environment already in motion.
You will practice with Master Mingtong and the retreat community in the Lotus Kiva.
You will share lunch together, and you will experience SouthWest Sanctuary, Santa Fe NM—the land, the silence, the community, and the deeper rhythm of retreat practice.
Only 30 daylong participants can join in person.
For those who choose In-Person VIP, the experience continues into the evening with dinner, connection, rest, and integration within the ongoing retreat environment.
Choose How You’d Like To Experience The Day
The main immersion runs from 9 AM–5 PM Mountain Time.
VIP continues into the evening: Dinner & Conversation with Master Mingtong from 5:30–7:30 PM MT, followed by a Private Group Healing Session from 7:30–8:30 PM MT.
Join Online
Day Pass · 9 AM–5 PM MT
$79
Join the complete immersion live from home, with 24-hour replay access once the recording is available.
VIP · 9 AM–8:30 PM MT
$178
Includes the full day, virtual dinner and Q&A, evening healing session, and lifetime recording access.
In Person at SouthWest Sanctuary, Santa Fe NM
Day Pass · 9 AM–5 PM MT
$239
Limited to 30 participants
Practice in the Lotus Kiva with Master Mingtong and the retreat community. Includes lunch and 24-hour replay access once the recording is available.
VIP · 9 AM–8:30 PM MT
$368
Includes the full day, lunch, dinner, evening healing session, and lifetime recording access.
All purchases are final and nonrefundable. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another person by contacting us before the event.
The Journey of the Day
Rather than a collection of separate classes, the day unfolds as one continuous experience.
Together we will move through:
Opening the Chi Field
Arrive, connect and awaken awareness of body and energy
Lift Chi Up, Pour Chi Down
Learn and deepen this foundational Wisdom Healing Qigong practice through movement, visualization, opening, gathering and receiving
Movement Meditation
Cultivate vitality, openness and flow
Sound Healing
Use vibration and breath to deepen connection with the body
Stillness & Integration
Allow the practice to settle beneath thought and effort
Deep Healing Practice
La Chi, meditation and collective energetic practice
Teaching & Transmission
Master Mingtong responds to what is unfolding in the group in real time
The day includes a lunch break and shorter pauses for rest and integration.
Integration & Q&A
Explore how to carry what has opened into healing, relationships, work and daily life.
VIP Evening · 5:30–8:30 PM MT
Dinner and conversation with Master Mingtong from 5:30–7:30 PM, followed by a private group healing session from 7:30–8:30 PM.
The practices are gentle and adaptable. You can practice standing or seated, and rest whenever your body asks.
No previous Qigong or meditation experience is required.
Experienced practitioners can use the day to enter familiar practices with deeper intention, transmission and energetic awareness.
Why Continuing The Practice Matters
One day can create a meaningful opening.
Consistent practice gives that opening time to settle and become part of everyday life.
As your relationship with your body and energy deepens, practice can become less something you do and more a way of meeting your life.
October 4 gives you a direct experience of that possibility—one full day to practice, feel, and discover what you may want to continue.
More Participant Experiences
“I leave with a deeper understanding that healing is not just about my physical body, but the spiritual, the emotional, the relational—all of it.”
— Mary
“I feel it on an emotional, spiritual and mental level. The whole beingness is being affected in a very positive way. And it affects how I interact with everyday life.”
— Caroline
These stories describe individual experiences. Your own experience will be unique.
Meet Master Mingtong Gu
Master Mingtong Gu is the founder of The Chi Center and SouthWest Sanctuary, author of Coming Home to Embodied Awakening, and a teacher of Wisdom Healing Qigong in the lineage of Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming.
His work arises from decades of practice, teaching and direct experience with the Zhineng/Wisdom Healing Qigong tradition, including study in China at the medicine-less Qigong center where intensive practice, collective Chi Field and self-healing were central to daily life.
He has taught tens of thousands of students around the world, bringing together ancient energetic wisdom with the lived challenges of health, purpose, spiritual awakening and modern life.
His teaching centers on one experiential truth:
When mind and body reconnect, energy begins to flow differently.
From there, healing becomes more possible.
Awareness deepens.
Wisdom becomes embodied.
Life itself becomes the practice.
Come Home To Yourself
You do not need to arrive healed.
You do not need to arrive certain.
You do not need to understand energy before you experience it.
Bring the body you actually have.
Bring what you are carrying.
Bring your questions.
Give yourself one full day to reconnect mind and body, practice inside a powerful collective field, and explore the living energy within you and all around you.
Sunday, October 4, 2026 9:00 AM–5:00 PM Mountain Time Join online or in person. VIP continues through 8:30 PM.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need experience with Qigong or meditation?
No previous experience is required. The practices are guided, gentle and adaptable. If you are already an experienced practitioner, the day offers an opportunity to explore familiar practices through sustained time, direct teaching, transmission and the collective field.
What is Wisdom Healing Qigong?
Wisdom Healing Qigong is an energetic practice using movement, sound, meditation, visualization and conscious awareness to cultivate the connection of mind, body and life energy. Master Mingtong teaches in the lineage of Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming and brings these practices into the modern journey of healing and Embodied Awakening.
What is Lift Chi Up, Pour Chi Down?
Lift Chi Up, Pour Chi Down (LCUPCD) is a foundational Wisdom Healing Qigong practice using gentle movement, attention and visualization to cultivate opening, expansion, gathering and receiving. It was one of the principal practices emphasized in the Qigong healing center in China where Master Mingtong trained. On October 4, he will place special emphasis on the deeper principles and practice of LCUPCD for the first time in years.
Can I participate with physical limitations?
The practices are adaptable to different physical capacities. Many can be practiced standing or seated, with rest as needed. Listen to your body and participate in the way that feels appropriate for you.
What is the difference between online and in person?
Both experiences include live teaching, practice and participation in the collective Chi Field.
Online allows you to enter the day from your own home.
In person adds the physical experience of practicing with Master Mingtong and the retreat community inside the Lotus Kiva at SouthWest Sanctuary, sharing lunch together, being on the land and entering a retreat field that has already begun forming.
How many people can attend in person?
The October 4 in-person immersion is limited to 30 daylong participants.
What is included with the $239 in-person registration?
The full daylong immersion, live practice with Master Mingtong in the Lotus Kiva, participation alongside the retreat group, access to the SouthWest Sanctuary, Santa Fe NM environment and lunch with the retreat community.
What is included in the VIP ticket?
Both VIP options include the complete daylong immersion plus the extended evening experience.
Online VIP — $178
- Full daylong immersion from 9 AM–5 PM MT
- Virtual dinner and intimate Q&A with Master Mingtong from 5:30–7:30 PM MT
- Private group healing session from 7:30–8:30 PM MT
- Lifetime recording access
In-Person VIP — $368
- Full daylong immersion in the Lotus Kiva from 9 AM–5 PM MT
- Lunch and dinner with the retreat community
- Dinner and conversation with Master Mingtong from 5:30–7:30 PM MT
- Private group healing session from 7:30–8:30 PM MT
- Lifetime recording access
Is there a recording?
A full recording is included with Online VIP. And a 24 hour replay access will be provided to all online and in-person sessions for Non-VIP’s
Is this a healing workshop or a spiritual retreat?
Healing and awakening are woven together in Wisdom Healing Qigong. Some people arrive primarily interested in health, vitality or healing. Others come for spiritual practice, clarity, purpose or a deeper relationship with themselves. The common doorway is the same: reconnect mind and body and begin where you are.
What makes this different from another Qigong class?
The day is designed as a sustained immersion rather than a collection of techniques. Movement, LCUPCD, sound, meditation, teaching and transmission unfold within one continuous collective Chi Field. In person, you also enter an existing retreat field already being cultivated through sustained group practice.
What happens after the immersion?
You may simply receive the experience and take it home.
If you discover that you want more time inside the field, there will also be opportunities to continue through ongoing practice with The Path and deeper retreat experiences with Master Mingtong.
The next step becomes clearer through what you experience.
What is the refund and transfer policy?
All purchases are final and nonrefundable. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another person by contacting us before the event.
OCTOBER 4, 2026
One day. One living field. One opportunity to come home.
Reconnect mind and body.
Experience Wisdom Healing Qigong directly with Master Mingtong Gu.
Awaken your relationship with the source energy of life within you and all around you.
Give the practice time to deepen.
And discover what vitality, joy, clarity and Embodied Awakening feel like from within.
COME HOME TO YOURSELF
The Embodied Awakening Daylong Immersion
Online
$79
Online VIP
$178
In-person
Lunch included
$239
In-person VIP
Lunch + dinner included
$368
Refund and Transfer Policy: All purchases are final and nonrefundable. If you are unable to attend, you may transfer your registration to another person by contacting us before the event.
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.
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