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A FULL-DAY HEALING IMMERSION WITH MASTER MINGTONG GU
Come Home to Yourself
Join Master Mingtong Gu for one immersive day of Embodied Awakening to restore vitality, quiet the mind, and reconnect with yourself.
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Embodied Awakening
You know there’s more.
More vitality. More peace. More freedom to live fully in your own body.
Perhaps you’ve spent years exploring books, meditation, therapies, or personal growth. You’ve gained insights, learned practices, and experienced moments of transformation. Yet something still feels just beyond reach.
Not because you’re doing it wrong. But because lasting change doesn’t begin by trying harder. It begins by reconnecting with the intelligence already living within you.
Embodied Awakening offers a different approach.
Instead of asking you to fix yourself, it helps you remember what your body has known all along. Through simple yet profound practices that engage the body, mind, and energy together, you’ll begin to experience a deeper sense of presence, resilience, and aliveness—not just during the retreat, but in everyday life.
What you’ve been looking for isn’t another technique. It’s a different way of experiencing yourself.
This Immersive One-Day Retreat Is...
More than information. A living experience. Many workshops leave you with new ideas, new notes, and another set of practices to take home.
This retreat is different.
Master Mingtong Gu teaches every session himself, responding in real time to the people in the room and the experience that’s unfolding. There is no script to follow and no prerecorded curriculum. Every retreat evolves naturally, making each one a unique experience.
Rather than simply learning new concepts, you’ll spend the day practicing, experiencing, and discovering what becomes possible when your body, mind, and energy begin working together.
“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.
No expectation of how healing should look or how fast it should happen. You arrive as you are. The field meets you there.
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. He has taught tens of thousands of students across six continents, spending years studying at the medicineless hospital in China under Grand Master Pang Ming, where chronic and terminal illness were treated through sustained group Qigong practice.
His teaching is not a curriculum. It is 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 simultaneously the most restful.
He grew up in rural China during the Cultural Revolution, in a village where there was very little of anything. He became the first person from his village to attend university, earned two master’s degrees including one from Ohio State, and by every external measure, things were going well.
The body holds what the mind moves past. His was carrying asthma, scoliosis, back pain, and a deep exhaustion he had lived with for so long he had stopped noticing it was there.
The turning point came in 1997, when he returned to China for advanced training under Dr. Pang Ming, founder of the world’s largest medicine-free Qigong hospital. What he witnessed there changed everything: 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 inside the body.
Master Mingtong Gu is the author of Coming Home to Embodied Awakening.
What People Are Saying About Master Mingtong
What Brought Us Here
Deanna’s Story
The Little Girl Is Back
Richard’s Story
When I Show Up
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 US Pacific Time
Opening Transmission + Morning Practice
Master Mingtong opens the chi field. Moving meditation, sound healing, and live teaching. You arrive as you are.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
12:00 PM US Pacific Time
Integration Rest
A half-hour of stillness. The field continues even in rest.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
12:30 PM US Pacific Time
Bio-Well Science Reveal
Mike Cicali presents the October 2026 retreat field data publicly for the first time.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
1:30 PM US Pacific Time
Afternoon Healing Practice
Deep sound healing, La Chi, and Five Organ Sound Healing. The accumulated field carries the practice deeper.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
3:30 PM US Pacific Time
Major Announcement: April 2027 Santa Fe
The four guest presenters for the April 2027 5-Day Healing and Awakening Retreat are revealed live. Attendees receive exclusive early-access pricing.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
4:00 PM US Pacific Time
Closing Transmission + Q&A
Questions answered from inside the practice, not as concepts but as transmission. How to carry home what opened.
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
5:00 PM US Pacific Time
Day Session Closes
30 days — Full experience · May 2–31
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.
Reserve Your Place
August 8, 2026 · Full Day
9am–5pm US Pacific Time
Online via Zoom + Limited In-Person
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
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.
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.
Can I attend in person?
A limited number of in-person places are available at JCC Marin, San Rafael, California. The full day runs 9:00am–5:00pm PT. Email support@chicenter.com to inquire.
What makes this retreat different?
Many workshops focus on learning new ideas or techniques. This retreat is designed around direct experience. Throughout the day, Master Mingtong guides you through practices that help you reconnect with your body’s natural capacity for vitality, resilience, and inner balance. Rather than simply leaving with more information, you’ll experience a way of being that you can continue to cultivate long after the retreat ends.
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 may vary.