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Something Isn't Working. Your Body Already Knows It.
For the first time in six years, Master Mingtong Gu comes to you live and in person.
Live August 8 · JCC Marin, San Rafael · No Experience Required · 8-Hour Live Immersion · Limited to 200 seats
If you’ve tried meditation, therapy, breathwork or personal growth but still feel like something is missing, join Master Mingtong Gu in the room for one powerful day that helps restore vitality, quiet the mind, and reconnect you with yourself through Wisdom Healing Qigong.
A FULL-DAY IN-PERSON EMBODIED AWAKENING IMMERSION WITH MASTER MINGTONG GU
Something Isn't Working. Your Body Already Knows It.
For the first time in six years, Master Mingtong Gu comes to you live and in person.
Live August 8 · JCC Marin, San Rafael · No Experience Required · 8-Hour Live Immersion · Limited to 200 seats
If you’ve tried meditation, therapy, breathwork or personal growth but still feel like something is missing, join Master Mingtong Gu in the room for one powerful day that helps restore vitality, quiet the mind, and reconnect you with yourself through Wisdom Healing Qigong.
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“I felt lighter after one day than I had in years.”
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“I finally understood what healing in the body actually feels like.”
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“The most powerful healing experience I’ve ever had.”
Master Mingtong Gu’s work has been recognized and featured by:
Author of
COMING HOME TO EMBODIED AWAKENING
Why So Many People Still Feel Stuck
Something is not working. You feel it. Something in you knows there is more: more health, more aliveness, more peace inside this body. But time passes and the patterns stay.
- You’ve tried meditation but still feel disconnected.
- You know stress is living in your body.
- Personal growth has helped—but something deeper hasn’t shifted.
- You want healing you can actually feel.
What you have been looking for is not a new technique. It is a new field.
This Isn't Another Workshop
Most programs hand you more to think about, more to try, more to add to the pile. But you have never been short on information.
What has been missing is an experience your body can actually feel. That is the difference here.
Most Programs
- They give you more information to absorb.
- They hand you techniques to try on your own.
- They ask you to understand healing in your head.
- You practice alone, and hope it holds.
- Progress is slow, and never quite certain.
Wisdom Healing Qigong
- You receive a direct, felt experience
- Healing moves through the body, not the mind.
- You practice live, guided by Master Mingtong in real time.
- You are held inside a shared, collective field.
- Real shifts begin in a single day.
This Day Is for You If…
- You have been practicing — and sense something deeper is available. Meditation, yoga, therapy, bodywork. You are not new to the inner path. And there is a layer the solo practice has not yet reached.
- Your body is carrying more than it can release on its own. Stress, grief, chronic tension, old patterns. You feel it. You know something needs to move — and you haven’t found the container that can hold it.
- Healing and spiritual growth feel like separate tracks. The body wants to awaken. The spirit wants to heal. You are looking for something that brings them home to the same place.
- You are in the Bay Area and the field is calling you. Master Mingtong has not taught in person in the Bay Area in six years. If something in you has been waiting — this is the room.
- You are anywhere in the world and ready to receive. Distance does not diminish the field. The online option carries the same transmission. You arrive as you are, from wherever you are.
✨ LION GATES PORTAL ✨
August 8 Is Not an Ordinary Day
August 8 marks the annual Lion’s Gate Portal—a sacred window associated with transformation, awakening, and expanded consciousness.
Across many cultures, the number eight symbolizes abundance, wholeness, and new beginnings. In Chinese culture, it is considered especially auspicious, representing prosperity and flourishing.
On August 8, the living practice of Wisdom Healing Qigong meets this powerful moment.
When inner practice aligns with nature’s rhythms, profound shifts become possible.
What might ordinarily take months can begin to unfold with greater ease, as body, energy,
and consciousness come into harmony.
What You Will Walk Away With
Restored Energy
A body that feels lighter, more alive, and more your own — after a single day of practice with Master Mingtong Gu.
Direct Transmission
Not information about healing. The experience of healing — live, in real time, through movement, sound, and field.
A Practice to Carry Home
Something that doesn’t end when the day does. A felt knowing of how to return — to your body, to your energy, to yourself.
And on August 8, something else: the first public reveal of the Bio-Well science data from the October retreat, and a major announcement at 3:30pm — exclusive to everyone in the room.
What Most People Notice After Just One Day
Less stress
the tension you've been carrying starts to ease.
More energy
a body that feels lighter and more alive.
Greater emotional balance
steadier, calmer, more like yourself.
Clearer mind
less mental chatter, more presence.
For the First Time In Six Years
The last time Master Mingtong taught in person in the Bay Area, it was March 2020.
The world was changing in ways none of us had language for yet. He gathered with the WHQ community — online, from a friend’s home in Marin named Savitri — before returning to Santa Fe. What they held together that evening: fear, overwhelm, the weight of collective uncertainty.
Online teaching held people through what could not be held alone. Technology connects across distance. And there is something it cannot replicate: the felt weight of being in the same room. The field that forms between bodies that can sense each other, not through a screen, but through the air.
Both are real. Both matter. On August 8, one of them comes to where you already are.
This Immersive One-Day Retreat Is...
Most healing events offer content. Coming Home to Yourself is different in kind, not just in degree.
Master Mingtong Gu teaches every session himself. No prepared curriculum. No manual to follow. No content delegated to assistants. The teaching goes exactly where the field goes: deeper and wider as the hours accumulate, responding to what is alive in the bodies in the room, never the same twice.
“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 receive is not information. It is transmission: direct, living contact with the field of Wisdom Healing Qigong — held by more than thirty years of practice and the collective energy of everyone present.
No performance required. No expectation of how healing should look, or how fast it should happen. You arrive as you are. The field meets you there.
Last spring, thirty people gathered at Southwest Sanctuary in the high desert of New Mexico — in the Kiva, a space built for exactly this kind of healing. For thirty days, they practiced together. The field that formed between them was measurable, biological, and profound.
Those stories come from the Kiva. On August 8, the teacher who held that field comes to San Rafael.
Not a livestream. A room. Two hundred people. One teacher. One field.
Meet Your Teacher
Master Mingtong Gu
Wisdom Healing Qigong Lineage Holder • Founder of The Chi Center • Qigong Master of the Year
Master Mingtong Gu is the founder of Wisdom Healing Qigong and The Chi Center, and has guided tens of thousands of students across six continents.
His teaching isn’t a curriculum. It’s a transmission: direct, living, and never repeated the same way twice. His students consistently describe the same paradox, the most intensive healing experience of their lives, and at the same time the most restful.
He grew up in rural China during the Cultural Revolution, in a village with almost nothing. He became the first person from his village to attend university and went on to earn two master’s degrees, including one from Ohio State. By every external measure, his life was going well.
But the body holds what the mind moves past. His was carrying asthma, scoliosis, chronic back pain, and a deep exhaustion he’d lived with so long he’d stopped noticing it.
The turning point came in 1997, when he returned to China for advanced training under Grand Master Pang Ming, founder of the world’s largest medicine-free Qigong hospital. There he witnessed thousands of people recovering from chronic and complex conditions, not through force or discipline, but through energy, movement, and the act of returning to the wisdom already living in the body.
Today, Master Mingtong Gu is recognized as one of the world’s leading teachers of Qigong, and the author of Coming Home to Embodied Awakening.
What People Are Saying About Master Mingtong
What Brought Us Here
Patrick’s Story
The Wingman Who Stayed
Kira’s Story
Kerry
“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.”
Jay
“Coming back to the body enabled me to come back to everything else: my wife, my kids, my grandkids, in a new light.”
Deanna Stella B
“The little girl in me is back — full swing. When she’s back, the head disappears. Things are more spontaneous.”
Mary
“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.”
Robin
“I reached out internally and it actually worked — surprise, surprise.”
Caroline
“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.”
9:00 AM–12:30 PM US Pacific Time
Morning Teaching + Practice
Reconnect with your body and arrive fully present.
Master Mingtong opens the chi field with moving meditation, sound healing, live teaching, and guided practice.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
12:30–2:00 PM US Pacific Time
Lunch Break + Integration
Give the morning’s practice time to settle and take root.
Step away for lunch, rest, and quiet integration before we gather again. In-person participants are encouraged to bring their lunch.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
2:00–5:00 PM US Pacific Time
Afternoon Teaching, Healing + Special Presentations
Go deeper as the field builds throughout the day.
The afternoon includes continued teaching and healing practice, the documentary film, the Bio-Well science presentation. We’ll close with a final transmission and Q&A to help you carry the practice home.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
5:00 PM US Pacific Time
Day Session Closes
Walk away with a felt shift you can return to anytime.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
VIP EXPERIENCE SCHEDULE:
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
5:00–6:00 PM US Pacific Time
Dinner Break
Take time to get your dinner and prepare for the VIP evening.
In-person participants may bring dinner or pick up takeout nearby and return to the JCC. Online participants can prepare or pick up their meal at home. We’ll enjoy dinner together when the VIP session begins.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
6:00–7:30 PM US Pacific Time
VIP Dinner + Q&A with Master Mingtong Gu
Stay for a more intimate conversation after the day’s formal teaching has ended.
Enjoy dinner together while Master Mingtong offers further teaching, reflection, and answers questions from VIP participants.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
7:30–8:30 PM US Pacific Time
Private Group Healing Session
Close the evening with deeper practice inside a smaller space held especially for VIP participants.
The session includes La Chi, collective sound healing, and personal transmission with Master Mingtong.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
The Full-Day Experience
A full day, 9:00am–5:00pm Pacific Time, taught live by Master Mingtong Gu. Every session is part of one continuous field that deepens as the day moves.
How We'll Guide You Through Your Healing
Everything you experience on August 8 is part of one system: Wisdom Healing Qigong. Master Mingtong guides you through its three living practices, woven together throughout the day:
Movement Meditation
Moving meditation and energy cultivation that works directly through the body — releasing stored patterns while building aliveness, flow, and presence from the inside out.
Sound Healing
Master Mingtong's signature Five Organ Sound Healing uses vibration to reach what the mind cannot touch — clearing energetic blockages and restoring coherence at a cellular level.
Live Transmission
This is where everything shifts. Master Mingtong will guide you to the root of what is holding you back — with presence, truth, and real transformation in real time.
What Happens in One Day
The field does not need a month to begin its work. One day of sustained practice — with the right teacher, the right community, and the right transmission — opens what years of effort alone cannot.
What You Experience
- 8 hours of live transmission with Master Mingtong Gu — every session taught in real time.
- Moving meditation and Five Organ Sound Healing, practiced in the living field of a shared community
- The first public release of Bio-Well data from the October 2026 retreat: measurable results from thirty days inside the collective field
- A major live announcement at 3:30pm PT — exclusive early-access pricing on the April 2027 Santa Fe retreat
What You Feel
- A body that has stopped bracing, not through effort, but through the field making it safe to release
- The particular aliveness that arrives when the practice moves through you, not from you
- The difference between being told about healing and experiencing it in real time
- Something that has been waiting - recognized, welcomed, given room to move
What You Carry Home
- A felt knowing of how to return to your body, not a concept, a lived experience you can revisit
- The memory of the field in your nervous system — which makes practice easier, deeper, and more available the next time
- A clear next step: whether that is continuing with The Path, inquiring about the October retreat, or simply allowing what opened to keep opening
Reserve Your Place
One day only August 8
A live field that happens once and cannot be repeated.
Practice with Master Mingtong in real time, together.
9:00am – 5:00pm Pacific Time
JCC Marin, San Rafael + Online via Zoom
IN-PERSON
- Full 8-hour live immersion at JCC Marin, San Rafael
- Direct in-room transmission with Master Mingtong Gu
- Morning practice, sound healing, La Chi, afternoon healing, and closing Q&A transmission (Value $397)
- Exclusive early-access pricing on April 2027 announced at the event (Save Up to $500)
- Bio-Well science reveal: October retreat results, presented publicly for the first time
- Closing transmission + Q&A
- Limited to 200 in-person seats
ONLINE
- Full 8-hour live immersion via Zoom with Master Mingtong Gu (Value $397)
- Morning practice, sound healing, La Chi, afternoon healing, and closing Q&A transmission (Value $397)
- Exclusive early-access pricing on April 2027 announced at the event (Save Up to $500)
- Bio-Well science data reveal: October retreat results, presented publicly for the first time
- Closing transmission + Q&A
Please note: All registrations are final and non-refundable.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need experience with Qigong or meditation?
No experience is required. All practices are adapted to what your body can receive. You arrive as you are. Many participants describe their first session with Master Mingtong as one of the most powerful healing experiences of their lives, not because they were ready, but because the field met them where they were.
Where is the in-person event?
JCC Marin, San Rafael, California. The full day runs 9:00am–5:00pm PT.
What is the difference between in-person and online?
Both options receive the same sessions, the same teacher, and the same transmission. The difference is the room. In-person attendees share physical space with 150 fellow practitioners and with Master Mingtong directly. The felt weight of being in the same room is qualitatively different from any online experience. If you are in or near the Bay Area, the in-person invitation is close. The online option carries the full field from wherever you are.
Is there a VIP option?
Yes. After you complete registration at the standard rate, a VIP upgrade is offered on the Thank You Page. VIP includes lifetime replay access to all day sessions, the 5:30 – 7:30PM PT virtual dinner with Master Mingtong Gu, and a private group healing session from 7:30 – 8:30PM PT
Can I attend in person?
A limited number of in-person places are available at Southwest Sanctuary in Galisteo, New Mexico. Email support@chicenter.com to inquire.
Where is the VIP offer shown?
The VIP option is presented on the Thank You Page after standard registration is complete. It is available for a limited time after you secure your place.
Is there a replay?
VIP registrants receive lifetime replay access to all day sessions. The live field is the experience. Standard participants attend live. If you may miss portions of the day, VIP is the right choice.
What is your refund policy?
All in-person registrations are final and non-refundable. Because seating is limited, each registration reserves a specific place at the event. If your plans change, you may transfer your ticket to another person by contacting support@chicenter.com.
What is the April 2027 announcement?
Four world-class guest presenters are joining Master Mingtong for a 5-Day Healing and Awakening Retreat in Santa Fe in April 2027. Their names are revealed live at 3:30pm PT on August 8. All attendees — in person and online — receive exclusive early-access pricing before it is available anywhere else.
What if I have a chronic illness or physical limitation?
The practices are adapted to your body’s capacity. The retreat environment has welcomed participants with significant health challenges. Individual results will vary.
Can I attend online if I’m outside the Bay Area?
Yes. The online option is open to anyone in the world. Same live sessions. Same teacher. Same field — available wherever you are.