Wisdom Healing Qigong PASSAGES - Small group coaching membership

Watch the Video Below for a teaching about healing, more info about Passages, and a sample of real-time coaching!

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Let’s face it. Retreats are special. They are intentionally designed to be safe, immersive experiences for growth and change, with all of the support needed to facilitate transformation, and none of the distractions of everyday life that can derail it. After opening up in such a Retreat environment, surrounded by kindred spirits on a similar journey, it can be very challenging to maintain the momentum of healing and change when you return back to the many demands and fast pace of modern life.

You are Invited to Step through the Portal of Your Next Transformation and continue the embodiment of your learnings, transformative processes, and Wisdom Healing Qigong practices you began during your last Healing Intensive Retreat.

The shattered pieces of my yesterday create the sturdy portal to my tomorrow.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

After a Retreat, returning to the relationships, responsibilities, patterns, and old conditioning of daily life can often disrupt the momentum of your healing journey. And yet, transforming and evolving in the context of everyday life is an important part of your passage, since that’s where the majority of your life is lived.

So, that’s why we are introducing a program designed specifically for Healing Intensive Retreat Graduates. We’re calling it: Wisdom Healing Qigong Passages — Your Journey to H.E.A.L : Health. Energy. Awakening. Life

We have designed Passages, a membership program to support folks just like you — to help you enhance the effectiveness of your Qigong practice and sustain it day in and day out, even amidst the complexity of everyday life — to give you personalized guided support from a Chi Center Coach as you navigate your way to your wellbeing goals.

We know the stakes are high. You are on a precious and unique life-journey and we know you are committed to your personal transformation — you’ve demonstrated that just by attending a several-day in Retreat with Master Mingtong. Look at all the steps you’ve already taken just to get to where you are today!

Is This for You? How Will Passages Support the Progress you Gained During your Retreat?

We have confidence that you initiated many changes during your Retreat with Master Mingtong. If you are like most people, when you go home you will be filled with hope and a renewed sense of self-empowerment. And, we also know that those feelings tend to fade over time, and your practice can dwindle. So, Passages has been designed specifically to support you as you navigate this transition, keeping you going steadily over the long-term, with the same energy, passion and dedication you felt in Retreat.

When a seed is planted, it needs more than a one-time infusion of water and nutrients if it is to blossom into its fullness. Likewise, you need ongoing nurturing to make the big changes that can support the health and wellbeing you desire. Daily practice and continually renewing your commitment is essential for the Retreat benefits to take root and continue to grow.

What are the intended results of Your Passages Membership?

To recreate, sustain, and evolve your Retreat experience (core feeling) every day at home, supported by an ongoing container of safety, wisdom, and community
To continue the transformation of your limiting mental patterns and habits that are the source of stress, dis-ease, and unhappiness
To enhance your self-mastery and expand your capacity to work with energy
To build your confidence, strengthen your sense of connection, and encourage you through the ups and downs of change and transformation
To deepen your joy, embody your Presence, grow your capacity to meet Life, and realize your purpose

What are the intended results of Your Passages Membership?

Create a compelling vision and chart a course for your practical Wisdom Healing Qigong Healing plan with a Chi Center Coach — envisioning and mapping out your unique goals, steps, support, tracking, results, with time to reflect and celebrate as you reach new milestones
Deepen your Wisdom Healing Qigong practice so it becomes an integral part of who you are and how you live your life, instead of something you struggle to fit into your everyday schedule
Engage with a Passages community of kindred spirits who totally understand you, so you can be the supportive wind under each others’ wings

Triumphantly navigate the inevitable challenges of your journey, supported to make it through
Renegotiate old relationship patterns, agreements, and expectations with family, friends, and co-workers, so they’re increasingly able to become allies of support for you in your daily life
Expand your mindset of acceptance, activation, and appreciation which puts you in the flow of abundance, as well as the flow of even more blessings in your life
Stay connected with your Retreat experience and the strong transmission of energy from Master Mingtong via 3-6 group Zoom sessions with him over every 6 month period — exclusively for Passages members

How often will we meet? What happens if you can’t attend a session?

Ideally, there will be weekly coaching sessions held on Zoom video conferencing. This technology allows you to connect via phone or internet. Group and Private coaching sessions are the core elements of the program. If you have to miss a group meeting, all will be recorded and put into your Learning Library, so you can watch at your convenience.

Master Mingtong will convene additional live Zoom sessions during Passages, to answer your questions. The schedule will be set around his teaching and travel calendars. We’ll let you know that dates as soon as possible.

When will Passages begin and end?

New Passages groups form twice each year in June and November. Renewable commitments to the membership are in 6 month intervals. The first group coaching session will convene within a few months following your Retreat, using Zoom technology. The days and times will be determined soon, and we will try to be considerate of time zones for each group member.

And… we want you to continue your learnings sooner than that!

We will provide videos and a daily journal for charting your progress after your Retreat. You and your coach will review it and utilize it to help you map out your personalized Wisdom Healing Qigong practice plan prior to the first group coaching session.

The door is open and wide. Don't go back to sleep.

~ Rumi

We’ve designed the Passages program based upon the three keys people need to support transformation and change:

Individual Accountability and Loyalty to Self: We will support you to create, navigate, and keep going with your unique Wisdom Healing Qigong Healing plan — designed specifically for your circumstances and your goals for healing, health and wellbeing with Wisdom Healing Qigong. We will be there to help you build your sense of self-confidence and keep you from “spinning, skipping, and getting stuck”.

Community and Supportive Guidance: Community provides an emotional and energetic connection that is an invaluable resource in going through the challenges that are inherent in the transformative process. Community provides a sense of belonging — of being seen, heard, and met. In this program, you will have a private, supportive community readily available to you.

Essential Teachings, Wisdom, and Knowledge: Your Passages group will have an experienced Chi Center Coach who is well versed in the practices and principles of Wisdom Healing Qigong and the processes of transformation. In addition, your connection to Master Mingtong will continue. Over the course of the program, he will convene periodic private group sessions with the Passages group. Touching base with him will be a source of confidence and resource to address your questions, challenges, and insights that are a normal part of everyone’s journey.

What are the Passages agreements and commitments?

By joining the Passages Membership, I am committing to:

Developing and maintaining a daily practice of Wisdom Healing Qigong
Visualizing my healing and wellbeing and opening to continuous transformation
Making my best effort and learning to balance that with relaxation
Connecting with my Passages community to receive and offer support on a regular basis

Asking for support when I need it
Learning to move through chi purifications with confidence and trust
Attending at least 90% of the live program sessions
Partnering with The Chi Center staff to give feedback on the design and delivery of the Passages program, and to track and report my progress so that each iteration of the program can be improved.

What are the steps to consider before getting started?

Your first step:
Schedule a time with a member of our staff for a conversation with a member of our Team to see if you are a good fit for the Passages program. The Passages group coaching membership can be renewed in 6 month increments.

Your investment:
The WHQ Passages membership is $3,500 for each 6-month commitment. For the best value, you can pay the total in full. Or, your commitment can be paid monthly with a small service charge, at $624/month. Memberships and billings automatically renew until cancelled.

There is special pricing available for families who enroll in the Passages program together. Talk to your Coach about this option.

Your timeline:
You have a bit of time to decide if this is your best next step on your personal journey. Our intention is that you keep the flow of your practice going. So, once you join Passages, we will be sending you additional information, and your Coach will be in touch to help you outline your personalized plan, which includes the private coaching schedule.

We will close enrollment once we are full for our next group start dates.

We want you to know:

Commitment to your Self is powerful! Many people discover they feel a surge of energy just by registering and making a powerful new pledge to themselves. Sometimes this energy can be experienced as distress, as your old paradigms are stirred up. Some people may even experience what feels like the onset of a cold, flu or intensification of symptoms. Please keep with your practice! Old blockages are dissolving. The energy is flowing.

Our team will be available to support you all along the way. Feel free to reach out to us via email at any time with questions about the Passages membership, by writing to WhatsNext@ChiCenter.com. We are holding this opportunity in our hearts for you and sending you radiant blessings of health, joy, and love! Thank you for being part of our Retreat graduate community.

Your intentions and your results. In the Wisdom Healing Qigong tradition, we will help you connect with and emphasize your deepest intention. What is your true, pure intention for joining this program? Your answer, your truth carries a certain energetic signature. It is the intention beyond what you do that determines the results of your actions. Before beginning this, or any wellness program, please consult your healthcare professional. The Passages membership program is not intended to diagnose, cure, or be a substitute for professional medical advice.

Your privacy and confidential information. We take our responsibility to protect your personal data and your health information very seriously. It is our utmost priority to care responsibly for any data you give us. We use your data to deliver and improve the information and services we provide to you, and we never share it with others. All payment information is stored within secure platforms whose business is to do that securely with high levels of encryption. Each member of the Passages membership must agree to keep the information shared by others in a group program confidential to the members of the group. However, individuals may choose to share the results and testimonial stories of their own personal experience publicly.

Cancellation policies. 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 Passages membership, within 12 months from your date of cancellation. If The Chi Center cancels this membership, you will receive 2 weeks’ notice when possible, and a full refund. We are not responsible for the cost of any travel cancellation costs associated with Chi Center retreats, events, or programs.

Audio and Video Recordings. Many of our program sessions will be recorded on audio and video for the benefit of the participants. In addition, The Chi Center may use videos, photos and/or recording excerpts for educational, documentary, and marketing purposes. Participants will be provided a Release of Rights and Claims form with more information about these policies.

Meet Your Passages Program Team

Master Mingtong Gu

Master Teacher & Founder

The Chi Center

Sallena Pool

CXO | Chief Experience Officer

The Chi Center

Annie Gedye

Coaching Programs Leader

The Chi Center

Weekly Small Group Coaching Schedule

Coaching cohorts meet for 2 hours on on Mondays – at 9:00a – 11:00am or 11:15- 1:15pm am US Denver Mountain Time. You will select the best time with your coach.

In addition, there are optional daily online practice groups you will be able to meet with on Zoom, so that you are always supported by a community of fellow practitioners.

Saturday Schedule with Master Mingtong Gu

9 AM – 10:30 AM US Denver Mountain Time

February 21, 2026
March 21, 2026
April 18, 2026
June 13, 2026
July 11, 2026

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.

On-Campus Retreat Info

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.

Enjoy Great Food & Charming Accommodations

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!

For On-Campus Attendees: Room Samples

The Lofts

The Ranch House

The Serenity Center

The Pueblo House

The Main Lodge

The Zia Apartment

"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.

Frequently Asked Questions

First Day
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
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)
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
Magical Sunday: The Chi Center is open to the Public
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)
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:

Stressed or depleted
Working with any dimension of physical, mental, or emotional dis-ease or trauma
Committed to making sustainable, positive changes in life — for yourself and with others
Ready to expand and refresh your healing ability as a professional or a caregiver
Inspired to work for the awakening of human potential

Participating in Chi Center Retreats will enable you to:

Learn to clear and balance emotions so that a deeper healing can occur.
Develop a quiet and creative mind to realize healing most effectively.
Discover how to enter pure and expanded consciousness.
Organize a chi field of healing with a collective power to accelerate your healing.
Learn profound theories and practices for energy healing to better understand and realize your healing capacity.
Learn the ultimate methods to transmit chi for the healing of self and others, called Fachi and Lachi
Cultivate inner and outer support systems, including individual practice and community connections for sustainable healing.

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

There is hiking in the arroyo and on the grounds.
Please stay on the trails.
Do not approach or feed wildlife.

► 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:

You must provide advance notice to The Chi Center Management about your service animal. Please write to rooms@chicenter.com if this applies to you, before you register.
If approved, your service dog “official credentials” will need to be emailed to The Chi Center, in advance of your arrival. Please send to support@chicenter.com
Guests will need to bring doggy-bags and clean up after their pets on the grounds, depositing waste directly into the dumpster behind the Main Lodge.
The guest will be responsible to pay for any damage to rooms (stains, odors, fleas, or scratches) A waiver/agreement must be signed prior to check in.
Dogs must arrive clean and groomed with unscented shampoos
If we have other guests in attendance who have pet sensitivities, service dogs’ access to the kiva and dining hall may be limited.
All pets will need to be leashed whenever they are outside of their owner’s assigned guest room.

Carol Mark

Rebecca Rule

Lisa

Jonathan Murdock

Kira Schofield

Lea Bayles

Ted Blickwedel

Lucy Messervy

Patrick Meiering

Online Retreat Info

The Benefits of attending a Livestream

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.

How to Prepare for your at-home Livestream Experience

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

Frequently Asked Questions

First Day
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
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)
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
Magical Sunday: The Chi Center is open to the Public
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)
12:40pm – 3:30pm	Photos, good-byes, simple lunch (for Retreat guests only), and check out

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.

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.

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.

You will receive great benefit if you are:

Stressed or depleted
Working with any dimension of physical, mental, or emotional dis-ease or trauma
Committed to making sustainable, positive changes in life — for yourself and with others
Ready to expand and refresh your healing ability as a professional or a caregiver
Inspired to work for the awakening of human potential

Participating in Chi Center Retreats will enable you to:

Learn to clear and balance emotions so that a deeper healing can occur.
Develop a quiet and creative mind to realize healing most effectively.
Discover how to enter pure and expanded consciousness.
Organize a chi field of healing with a collective power to accelerate your healing.
Learn profound theories and practices for energy healing to better understand and realize your healing capacity.
Learn the ultimate methods to transmit chi for the healing of self and others, called Fachi and Lachi
Cultivate inner and outer support systems, including individual practice and community connections for sustainable healing.

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

Click here to learn more about research data, facts, & information to understand Zhineng Wisdom Healing Qigong. – https://chicenter.com/research

Yes, we do!

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.

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.