An Online Sanctuary for Healing, Presence & Remembering Who You Are
Step into a sacred field of practice from the comfort of your home — a time to release, renew, and awaken the deeper intelligence within you.
UPCOMING Online RETREAT DATES
07 — 12
October
2025
14 — 19
October
2025
21 — 26
October
2025
Healing and Awakening Retreats with Master Mingtong Gu are among the most focused and in-depth Wisdom Healing Qigong experiences available. They are designed for people of all backgrounds who wish to strengthen wellbeing, stabilize their energy, and live with greater presence and clarity.
Through 6-day cycles of guided practice, energetic teaching transmission,s and community connection, you’ll discover how to activate your body’s natural energy system from home to:
This is the essence of Wisdom Healing Qigong — a practical, time-tested method that allows the benefits you experience in retreat to ripple into every part of daily life.
This Retreat focuses on restoring the body’s natural capacity for healing and awakening. Through the core practices of Wisdom Healing Qigong — movement, sound vibration, visualization, and guided energy awareness — you’ll begin to release the physical and emotional blockages held in cellular memory.
Immersed in the chi field, you’ll discover how to reset old patterns at their energetic root.
Participants often notice less discomfort, more sustained levels of energy, and deeper rest at night. Many also describe greater ease in digestion, circulation, and overall vitality as the body reorganizes toward balance.
This Retreat is welcoming to both new and seasoned practitioners, making it an ideal Retreat for everyone wishing to strengthen vitality and resilience. It creates the conditions for long-term healing and provides practical tools you can continue using in daily life.
Retreat One is suitable for all levels — beginning to advanced. If your primary challenges are physical healing, we recommend attending at least the first two Retreats of the Fall 2025 series for the best results.
This Retreat emphasizes the balance of emotional and mental energy while expanding clarity of awareness. Through sequences that harmonize the brain and heart, you’ll learn to quiet stress reactions, stabilize mood, and clear mental fog.
The teachings and transmissions of this week help energy reorganize into coherence — where body, heart, and mind are synchronized.
Participants often describe feeling more creative, more open in relationships, and more centered when facing challenge. Many also report improved focus, greater capacity for problem-solving, and the ability to return to calm more quickly after stress.
This Retreat offers profound benefit whether you are new to the practices or have years of experience, and it also supports the ongoing continuity of healing for those focusing on physical recovery.
Retreat Two is suitable for all levels — beginning to advanced. If your primary challenges are physical healing, we recommend attending at least the first two Retreats of the Fall 2025 series for the best results.
This Retreat is designed for practitioners with an established foundation in Wisdom Healing Qigong. It is for those ready to access deeper states of energetic awareness, expansion, and integration through advanced methods of practice.
If you are newer to Qigong, you are welcome in this Retreat when it follows your participation in Retreats One and Two. The immersion and chi field development of those weeks create the preparation needed to engage the intensity of advanced practice.
For those considering only Retreat Three: please know this is not a “fast track” option. Without prior immersion, the pace and depth of this week can feel overwhelming and limit your benefit.
In this container, you will engage advanced methods, increase the intensity, duration, and refinement of your practice, explore deeper states of consciousness and presence, and expand your understanding of the Hun Yuan chi body as a living experience.
Participants often report a stronger continuity of energy flow throughout the day, profound spiritual connection, and the ability to sustain practice as an embodied way of life.
Master Mingtong shares why personal healing is inseparable from the healing of our planet — and why this moment calls for it.
“Even though I couldn’t always attend during the live broadcasts, I could feel the healing energy of the chi-verse when I was able to tune in later in the day. Master Mingtong Gu’s sound healings make my organs sing! Not only do I have more energy and my knees are much happier, but at this time of rapid change and challenge I feel calm and centered. I would encourage anyone who wants to feel better, with more vitality and joy, to sign up for an online retreat with The Chi Center today! Haola”
– Kaija
In Master Mingtong’s teaching, these words are living transmissions — each one pointing us beyond concept into the felt experience of wholeness and transformation.
Alignment
When the parts of our being — body, mind, heart, and spirit — come into harmony, energy flows freely. Alignment allows each dimension of life to reinforce the others in a natural rhythm of healing, love, and fulfillment. It is a state of life arranging itself into progressive, evolving wholeness.
“When we are in full alignment with the energy of the Universe, we create an environment for synchronicities and miracles that can astound us.” — MMG
Coherence
Coherence is the synchronization of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energies so they function as one. When energy is coherent, all parts are connected, moving in rhythm, and reinforcing each other. This high-frequency order generates harmony, resilience, creativity, and optimal functioning.
“When you are in coherence you are functioning optimally. This is also called a flow-state or being in the zone. Your creativity is amplified and perception can be extraordinary.” — MMG
Awakening
Awakening opens our awareness to new dimensions of connection. Inner and outer, part and whole, are experienced as inseparable. With awakening, alignment and coherence continue to expand, revealing themselves as distinct expressions of the same living energy. Awakening guides us into deeper presence and fuller participation in life.
“Awakening is the discovery of a new consciousness, where energy flows freely and life reveals its wholeness.” — MMG
“I did not expect this much from an Online Qigong Retreat! It was a profoundly intense experience. It felt like I was under a waterfall washing away all impurities in my physical and energetic bodies. I felt a deep sense of cleansing and purification, as well as a deep sense of peace. So much so, that I decided to stay in stillness and quietness during the breaks. There was so much to integrate. This was, for me, the best sound healing I ever experienced, and I could feel the cleansing happening in my digestive tract and other organs. Thank you Master Mingtong so very much.”
– Claude
We’ll start each day’s session with a short meditation (called setting the chi field), followed by Master Mingtong teaching you simple movement practices that relax your mind and body to generate more powerful healing and awakening effects.
Then we’ll continue working together as a group in the beautiful round Lotus Flower Kiva, at one of the hilltop labyrinths, underneath the Grandmother Cottonwood Tree, or on the Infinity Deck at the Meditation Pond.
Your day will include teachings, transmissions, sound healing technologies, and gentle movement practices. In addition, you will have plenty of time to process and learn within small groups, with a chi buddy, or in silence.
“Cancer affected my spine with 5 spinal fractures. Participating in the online Qigong Retreat, and embracing discomfort, has increased my range of motion which has improved my quality of life. I look forward to more improvements physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally as I continue to practice. Thank you all, and Haola!
– Jim
You will learn and practice intensive Sound Healing for the 5 organ systems. Sacred healing sounds work to release the stress we all feel — which is often primarily emotional stress locked in the cellular memory of our organs. By healing these emotional contractions of energy, you empower yourself to heal and awaken on every level of your life.
Sound is an energetic vibration that can awaken your heart, your organs, your consciousness, and your cells – to facilitate deep healing and transformation on all levels from the physical to the emotional and spiritual.
Master Mingtong will teach you the Sound Healing techniques that are normally shared with Level 3 practitioners of Wisdom Healing Qigong. Advanced toning techniques benefit the brain, spinal cord, nerves, joints, muscles, and tendons — as well as awaken your consciousness.
Sound Healing is a deeply empowering practice. Anybody can do it. You don’t need to know how to play a musical instrument, you don’t need a strong voice, and you don’t need any special healing skills. You simply join in making the healing sounds and experience the vibrations and energy around you. Even if you’re a complete beginner, you can learn these techniques with step-by-step guidance.
“I’m at home [online with the Retreat] but I am there. I am reeling. I could feel the chi internally…I felt the fire of healing. Haola! This was extremely powerful. Qigong is new to me every Retreat because I have not yet met who I am becoming. My Old Story departs every second. Online is fabulous! One heart/one mind of optimism, highest faith, and whatever comes next…”
– Mary
Continuing the progress you’ve made in Sound Healing and Movement practices, Master Mingtong will introduce you to the beautiful practice of Lift Chi Up & Pour Chi Down, plus beginning Pure Consciousness practices.
This will be one of the rare times both these practice forms are shared with the general public — the teachings were previously only available within the Zhineng Qigong Master training program in China.
By combining these practices with the energetic charge of our sacred location, plus the collective energy field of the group… the entire Retreat will become a supercharged experience of healing and spiritual awakening!
“I am thrilled with the results I’ve already seen after just a few days and it definitely deepening my commitment to myself. I cannot thank you enough, Master Mingtong for ALL that you are doing to change the lives of people and thereby creating a more loving and powerful atmosphere for the ascension of our planet! Hoala!”
– Susan
What’s Included in Each Week of Retreat
Online Retreat Weeks
Retreat Dates | Fee | Retreat Focus | |
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October 7-12, 2025 | $999 | This Retreat is suitable for all levels — beginning to advanced. | Reserve My Spot |
October 14-19, 2025 | $999 | This Retreat is suitable for all levels — beginning to advanced — and is ideal for Wisdom Healing Qigong Coaches and Facilitators. | Reserve My Spot |
October 21-26, 2025 | $999 | The Advanced Practices Retreat is designed for seasoned practitioners who are ready to deepen their connection to energy, refine their skills, and unlock new dimensions of healing and awakening. | Reserve My Spot |
Retreat Dates | Fee | Retreat Focus | |
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October 21-26, 2025 | $999 | The Advanced Practices Retreat is designed for seasoned practitioners who are ready to deepen their connection to energy, refine their skills, and unlock new dimensions of healing and awakening. | Reserve My Spot |
The 30-Day Sacred Rebirth Retreat with Master Mingtong takes place October 4 – November 2, 2025 at the SouthWest Sanctuary for Wisdom & Healing in New Mexico.
It carries the same Wisdom Healing Qigong teachings into a fully immersive container — with additional days of practice, integration, and community life. Learn More About the 30-Day Retreat
Named Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress on Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Master Mingtong Gu possesses a profound ability to harness energy in order to accelerate personal and global healing, making him a sought-after Teacher, practitioner, and inspirational speaker.
Mingtong Gu is an internationally recognized Teacher who received his training from a variety of Grandmasters of China and Tibet and at the world’s largest Qigong hospital. This “medicine-less” hospital, Zhineng Qigong Center, treated over 200,000 patients with over 185 different illnesses.
He is the founder of The Chi Center, Inc., Wisdom Healing Qigong, and The Southwest Sanctuary for Wisdom and Healing just outside Santa Fe New Mexico.
“The way The Chi Center has shown up online is remarkable, beautiful and profound. My connection to myself, life in general and to my healing journey in particular continues to grow and deepen. Thank you and haola!”
– Elizabeth
“Please share my gratefulness to everyone for this amazing Online Retreat. I felt the transmission strongly through the teachings and was touched by watching all the contributions of the staff. Everyone there gave something. It was so fun to watch the dancing and hear the laughing and it added so much to be tuned into it all virtually, although I can’t be there in person. My confidence and intention have deepened. This practice is a gift and I am deeply grateful that I was led to find this precious gift in my life. One of my sons asked, ‘Are you still doing that magic Qigong thing’? And, all of my family members have told me to never stop doing it because they have noticed great change in me. Haola to everyone. I love you all! Hugs! Haola!”
– Shelley
QIGONG is a practice, a technology, and an art that applies ancient wisdom, modern science, and the mind’s creative power to transform our lives from dis-ease to health and well-being.
It’s a direct and powerful technology to tap into the infinite source of energy — the same energy in the Milky Way — and use this infinite source to transform our physical and psychological conditions for a better, more balanced life.
HEALING is the application and benefit of awakening consciousness and wisdom when we work with energy as the foundational substance of the creative living universe within and around us.
True healing addresses the deepest causes of disease and life’s problems beyond simply fixing the symptoms. It requires practice to become aware of and change the limited patterns of mind, body, and heart and to then address those energetic conditions. The result is improvement of health and wellbeing, including the transformation of chronic illness for both the long and short term. Healing also seeks – quite naturally – the deep transformation of the whole person, by realizing the whole unified harmony of the individual within and in relationship to the multi-dimensional unity of all life.
WISDOM is the understanding that arises from an awakening of our perception and consciousness of life. Ultimate wisdom is the ability to know and embody the creative source of the living universe, moment-to-moment. It is our conscious capacity to fully participate in the continuous dance of evolving creation.
WISDOM HEALING QIGONG is a Western expression of the most validated effective form of Qigong, cultivated and refined by Master Mingtong Gu. Its foundations stem from the practice of Zhineng Qigong, founded by Master Mingtong’s revered and beloved teacher in China, Dr. Grandmaster Pang Ming.
Qigong is the cosmology (theory) and technology (art) for consciousness to work with creative energy (chi). It is a creative union of consciousness and energy, which awakens the joy-full wisdom capacity of mind, heart, and body.
“I am in deep gratitude to everyone who helped make this Retreat happen for all of us online. It was so smooth at all times. Thank you all so much! Haola”
– Theresa
“Gratitude for this Online Retreat – Master Mingtong and all at The Chi Center making these teachings possible to reach us anywhere. Gratitude and Haola.”
– Brenna
Qigong movements are adaptable for accessibility, gentle, and free flowing. Accompanying visualization and meditation can be done in any comfortable position —sitting, standing, or lying down. FTC DISCLOSURE: Wisdom Healing Qigong is not intended to diagnose, cure, or be a substitute for professional medical advice. Before beginning this, or any wellness program, please consult your trusted healthcare professional. Any instructions given or suggestions made during the course of Master Mingtong Gu’s Chi Center programs are not intended as a substitute for medical counseling or treatment. Please consult with your primary care physician before beginning this energy practice. Any health claims shared by viewers, students, friends, subscribers, or clients are understood to be true and accurate, representing their subjective experience, but are not verified. Results will vary from person to person. Always do your own due diligence and use your best judgment when making any health-related decisions and purchases.
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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
Click here to learn more about research data, facts, & information to understand Zhineng Wisdom Healing Qigong. – https://chicenter.com/research
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.
Here is what you need to know:
The Chi Center’s online programs are not just a second-best choice option nor are they simply another online course among many in the virtual world. Online offerings have been the ever-strengthening foundation of our core programs for more than 10 years, through the on-going cultivation of Master Mingtong’s vision and The Chi Center’s commitment.
This Fall our Online Retreats have been upgraded yet again to meet our evolving community’s needs and capacity. You will find these Retreats the most immersive deep dive of anything of their kind. We are setting new records — not only for the breadth and depth of our own programs but also within the field of mind-body-spirit.
So, today’s attendees will benefit from decades of the deepening of the Wisdom Healing Qigong chi field, plus the expanded power and potency of our ever-evolving teachings and programs designed to serve a world-wide community.
Make a special space to connect online that supports your experience. Have a comfortable place to sit, and to stand with room enough to move your arms for practice. Also, have a comfortable place to lie down as needed and for chi naps.
It is preferable that your space is in one room, but this is not essential. Just try to minimize the amount of moving around your house during the online sessions so that you are better able to stay focused and relax into the chi field.
And remember to have cozy blankets and pillows with you, too. It’s all about being relaxed and comfortable.
“Even though I couldn’t always attend during the live broadcasts, I could feel the healing energy of the chi-verse when I was able to tune in later in the day. Master Mingtong Gu’s sound healings make my organs sing! Not only do I have more energy and my knees are much happier, but at this time of rapid change and challenge I feel calm and centered. I would encourage anyone who wants to feel better, with more vitality and joy, to sign up for an online retreat with The Chi Center today! Haola"
- Kaija
"I'm at home [online attending the Retreat] but I feel like I am there in the Kiva too. I am reeling. I could feel the chi internally... I felt the fire of healing. Haola! This was extremely powerful. Qigong is brand new to me during every Retreat because I am a different person each time — I have not yet met who I am becoming. My Old Story departs every second. Online Retreats are fabulous! I am experiencing One Heart/One Mind of optimism, highest fath, and whatever comes next..."
- Mary
"Gratitude for this Online Retreat – Master Mingtong and all at The Chi Center making these teachings possible to reach us anywhere. Gratitude and Haola."
- Brenna
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 retreat ends. (Note: QFLM members retain replay access as long as they are the Qigong for Life Master member!)
Yes — in fact, we encourage it! If you have others living in your household they can share the online livestream with you at no additional charge.
Recordings of each session are uploaded into your Chi Center online library as soon as feasible after the videos can be processed — usually within 24 hours of the original programming. That means you can always watch any session you miss the next day, as soon as your schedule allows. And, if you want to catch up or watch any segment again, the replays remain in your library as described above.
If you haven’t tried Wisdom Healing Qigong before, you may be wondering if it can really make a difference. We get it. We are very confident in the high quality of our events and want to make sure that we earn your trust, so we offer a liberal cancellation policy so you can attend for 1 day with confidence: If within the first 24 hours of your chosen livestream event, you decide the program is not right for you, please write to our Support & Service Team letting us know you would like to cancel and receive a full refund. After that time, there is no refund available.
Email: Support@ChiCenter.com
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
Click here to learn more about research data, facts, & information to understand Zhineng Wisdom Healing Qigong. – https://chicenter.com/research
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.