Thursdays · 9:00–10:30am Mountain · Live with Master Mingtong Gu · The Five Connections arc begins September 10
The Path of Embodied Awakening
When Life Pulls You Away from Yourself, Learn How to Return
Stress, responsibility, and constant mental effort can leave you feeling depleted and disconnected from your body. The Path Live is a weekly 90-minute online practice with Master Mingtong Gu that helps you restore that connection.
Through Wisdom Healing Qigong—gentle movement, breath, sound, meditation, and focused awareness—you learn to awaken your natural vitality, work with your own energy, and meet everyday life with greater presence and inner steadiness.
$79/month · or $690/year, saving $258 · 30-day experience guarantee
What you are joining
- A 90-minute live practice with Master Mingtong Gu every Thursday
- 9:00–10:30am Mountain · Live online from wherever you are
- Movement, sound and meditation in every session
- Live teaching, questions, and guidance shaped by what is present in the community each week
- The shared energy and support of practitioners around the world—the collective Chi Field
- Replays within 24 hours, available any time
- Focused seasonal teaching journeys, including the Five Connections beginning Sep 10, 2026
- Two foundational Embodied Awakening courses, included and yours to keep
$79/month · or $690/year, saving $258
“Mingtong is full of vitality, wisdom, and skill. He is a real healer, and the practices he teaches can change your life.”
Jack Kornfield, PhD · Cofounder, Spirit Rock Meditation Center
“Mingtong is a compassionate healer, a wise teacher and a real force for transformation in today’s world.”
Tara Brach, PhD · Author & Clinical Psychologist
“Master Mingtong Gu has brought a level of transmission of mind-body practice that is unparalleled in my experience. Since making these teachings available to patients in my medical practice, they become healthier and happier.”
Brian Bouch, M.D. · Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Medicine
You already know how to push through
You know how to keep going when you are tired. How to think your way through a problem. How to care for other people and carry responsibility, uncertainty, grief, and change.
Yet constant effort has a cost. Eventually, the body speaks—through tension, fatigue, restlessness, emotional overwhelm, or the sense that you are moving through your life without feeling fully present inside it.
You may understand what is happening. You may even know what would help. But when pressure rises, familiar reactions can take over before thought alone can change them.
The shift does not come from pushing harder. It begins by returning to the body.
Why Consistency Matters
The Practice Does Not End When the Session Does
A moment of calm can show you what is possible. Deeper change develops through repetition—returning to the body often enough that steadiness, awareness, and choice become more available when life is demanding.
When someone disappoints you, grief arrives, your body hurts, or the world feels like too much, understanding alone may not be enough. Practice gives you a way to meet what is happening without immediately losing yourself inside it.
The Path Live provides a weekly rhythm for that return. Over time, the practice becomes less like something you do for 90 minutes and more like a capacity you carry into your life.
How the Practice Works
Embodied Awakening Is Practiced Through Five Essential Connections
Wisdom Healing Qigong helps you restore connection—with your body, with the natural world, with other people, with collective energy, and with the deeper wholeness within you.
Movement, sound, and meditation allow you to experience these connections directly, rather than only understanding them as ideas.
INNER · BODY
Come back into direct relationship with yourself
Awareness returns to the body as something felt rather than thought about. Stress stops living somewhere the mind cannot reach.
VERTICAL · EARTH AND HEAVEN
Feel supported by something larger than personal effort
Rooted below, open above. If you are tired of holding everything together alone, this is where the body begins to feel held.
HORIZONTAL · HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
Practice resonance, belonging and presence with others
Connection as something practiced rather than hoped for — giving and receiving, being seen without explaining, meeting others from wholeness instead of need.
CHI FIELD · COLLECTIVE ENERGY
Enter the shared field created by practising together
Something becomes available in a room of shared presence that solitary effort cannot replicate — the felt relief of not carrying this by yourself.
ESSENCE · WHOLENESS
Remember the presence beneath roles and conditioning
Underneath your history, your roles and your diagnoses — something whole, and something that was never broken.
Movement opens the body. Sound moves what words cannot reach. Meditation holds what opens. Together, they make the Five Connections something you can feel, practice, and carry into daily life.
What Begins to change
Life May Not Become Easier. Your Capacity Can Become Larger
Change through consistent practice is often gradual and cumulative. You may notice that you return to yourself sooner, remain present longer, and have more choice in moments that once felt automatic.
Exhaustion → Resilience
Instead of relying only on effort, you learn how to restore and cultivate your energy.
Overwhelm → Capacity
You learn to feel what is happening without being completely overtaken by it.
Disconnection → Embodiment
You become more able to sense your body, listen to its signals, and respond to what you need.
Fear → Usable Energy
You learn to recognize contraction and work with the energy held within it, rather than allowing fear to direct your response.
Uncertainty → Inner Direction
As the mental noise settles, what matters—and how you want to meet it—becomes easier to feel.
The aim is not to avoid difficulty.
It is to develop a deeper capacity to remain connected to yourself while moving through it.
What This Can Look Like in Real Life
Thirty days by a river
Joanna’s mother died suddenly. She flew to Florida to arrange the funeral and settle her mother’s affairs — thirty days straight, twelve and thirteen hour days, very little sleep. There were no hours available for practice.
“She had an apartment on a river, and every single morning I stood by that river and remembered your words — that if you don’t have time to do Qigong, at least go through your five organs and say hello. This is my brain. This is my heart. I did that every morning for thirty days.
People couldn’t believe everything I was able to accomplish. They kept asking, How are you doing this? And I said, I think the only way I’m getting through this is by staying in touch with my body through Qigong every single morning. Even though I only did fifteen or twenty minutes, I truly believe it got me through.
I came back in one piece.”
— Joanna · Path member
You do not need to escape your life in order to practice. Eventually your life becomes the practice — walking, working, parenting, grieving, deciding, returning.
What happens Thursday
Ninety minutes. The same hour every week
Each Thursday, you join Master Mingtong and practitioners from around the world live on Zoom. He guides the practice in real time, responding to what is present in the community and the world that week.
- Guided Wisdom Healing Qigong movement
- Sound healing
- Meditation and Pure Consciousness practice
- Energetic transmission
- Real-life inquiry and sharing
- Live guidance from Master Mingtong
This is a living field rather than a fixed curriculum. Some weeks you arrive energized. Some weeks exhausted. Some weeks grieving. You begin exactly where you are — and you return.
When
Every Thursday, 9:00–10:30am Mountain Time
Where
Live on Zoom, from wherever you practice
If you miss it
Full replay within 24 hours, yours to keep
What it costs
$79 per month, or $690 for the year · Cancel anytime
Why Practicing Together Matters
A Shared Practice Makes It Easier to Keep Returning
Practicing alone can be meaningful. It can also be difficult to sustain when life becomes busy, demanding, or uncertain. Meeting at the same time each week creates a rhythm you do not have to rebuild on your own.
During each live session, you move, breathe, sound, and become still alongside people practicing around the world. Their presence changes the experience: you are participating in shared attention, energy, and intention, guided in real time by Master Mingtong.
This is what Master Mingtong calls the collective Chi Field. It offers support, momentum, and a sense of belonging while you strengthen your own ability to return to your body and work with your energy.
Over time, the steadiness you first experience within the group becomes more available within you.
The field holds you while you learn to hold yourself.
The living relationship
The Difference Live Guidance Makes
The heart of Path Live is the living relationship between the teacher, the practice, and the community.
Each Thursday, Master Mingtong practices with the group, responds to questions, and shapes his teaching around what is present. Replays are available, but the live session remains the source of the experience.
The teaching is alive because it meets the life you are living now.
In their own words
What members are discovering
You do not need to escape your life in order to practice. Eventually your life becomes the practice — walking, working, parenting, grieving, deciding, returning.
“I finally experience my capacity to affect my reality through changing my responses and perceptions. There really is an alternative to being overwhelmed by emotion as I have been so often in the past.”
— Sara Winter
“My main discovery is that I hold tension and fear in my heart. As I let go of this tension — or the tension lets go of me — a deeper relaxation and body presence emerges, and the tension is transformed to energy.”
— Kate McDonald
“I have faith in my power to shift from contraction through practice and the chi field, rather than seeking others to fix me.”
— Sarah Allen
“The questions I came with were answered without my asking.”
— Amina Elizabeth Stevens
“Sometimes I can do more than I was thinking. That means I feel more empowered now.”
— Maria Fofana-Schmitz
“It’s been my sustaining practice for 10 years now.”
— Karen Rowan-Tree · Long-term Path Live member
Beginning September 10
This autumn, we live the Five Connections together
Seven Thursdays, in sequence — each week building the one before it. Join at any point; the arc is a spiral you return to, not a ladder you climb.
Sep 10
Inner
Sep 17
Vertical
Sep 24
Horizontal
Oct 1
Chi Field
Oct 8
Essence
Oct 15
Living the Three A’s
Oct 22
Integration
Your first live gathering is this Thursday
Your Path Live Membership
Everything opens on your first day
Weekly 90-minute live practice with Master Mingtong
Every Thursday, 9:00–10:30am Mountain. Movement, sound, meditation and embodied inquiry — directly with him and the community.
The collective Chi Field
A living community of practitioners cultivating healing, awakening and embodied presence together.
Replays within 24 hours, available any time
Return to the session when your week allows. A week can pass without you and the rhythm still holds.
Seasonal Embodied Awakening arcs
Several times a year, a focused journey through the connections and practices — beginning with the Five Connections this September.
Coming Home to Embodied Awakening — included
The complete eight-module initiation course, carrying the foundational teachings of this work. Move through it at your own pace, on no schedule at all.
Empower Your Immune System — included
The complete program: energy flow and resilience, emotions and the five-organ system, sound healing, movement and breathing practices.
Both courses are yours to keep
Whether you stay a month or a decade.
Choose your rhythm
Join Month to Month—or Choose a Full Year of Practice
Both options include the complete Path Live membership: weekly live sessions, replays, seasonal teaching journeys, the collective Chi Field, and both foundational courses.
A YEAR OF PRACTICE
$690
for the year — saves $258 · equivalent to $57.50 a month
Different seasons meet different parts of you. What speaks to you in a joyful period becomes something else entirely during grief. A teaching you understand today may become embodied six months from now. The year gives that relationship room to unfold.
Both include everything. Same sessions, same replays, same guarantee.
Meet your guide
Master Mingtong Gu
He grew up in rural China during the Cultural Revolution and became the first from his village to attend college, later earning two master’s degrees including an MFA from Ohio State University. It was during those graduate years, far from home, that he began returning to the wisdom of his own culture.
In 1997 he went back to China for advanced training under Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming, whose medicine-less hospital became one of the largest Qigong healing centers in the world. Through consistent practice he came through his own long-standing conditions — asthma, scoliosis, back pain, kidney weakness. His teaching begins from what that taught him.
He is the founder of The Chi Center and the Southwest Sanctuary, author of Coming Home to Embodied Awakening, and the founder of the Embodied Awakening movement.
Lineage of Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming
Founder · The Chi Center
Founder · Southwest Sanctuary
Author · Coming Home to Embodied Awakening
Experience it for 30 days
Come to the sessions. Feel what happens in your own body. Notice whether you begin relating differently to energy, emotion and stress.
If you don’t feel aligned, you’ll receive a full refund. No guilt. No pressure. No energetic cords to cut.
Questions first? Linda is available at chicenter.com/conversation
What if I cannot attend every Thursday?
The full replay is in your account within 24 hours and stays there. Many members practise mostly from replays. Come live when you can — the room is different, and worth feeling at least once — but the practice does not require it.
Do I need Qigong experience?
No. You do not need to be flexible, to understand energy, or to meditate well. Newcomers and fifteen-year practitioners are in the same session and Master Mingtong guides so that both can follow. Everything can be done seated. Come exactly as life has shaped you today.
I have already done a great deal of this work. What would this add?
Then you already know the difference between information and transmission. The question is not whether you know enough — it is whether you have somewhere to practise that responds to you. Many people here have practised for fifteen years or more.
What is the difference between The Path Live and The Path Mastery?
The Path Live is the living weekly field. The Path Mastery adds a progressive training curriculum on top of it. If you are entering this work primarily to establish a consistent embodied practice, begin here — and nothing is held back from The Path Live when you do.
Monthly or yearly — does it matter?
Only for the price. $79 a month, or $690 for the year, which saves $258. The sessions, the replays and the guarantee are identical. Take monthly if you would rather decide as you go.
How do I cancel?
From your account, anytime. No fees, no notice period, no conversation required. Within the first 30 days you receive a full refund as well.
Healing is where many people begin.
Embodied Awakening is where the path leads.
What opened in you is asking for a life.
You could keep it as another meaningful experience you once had. Or you can return to it. Practise it. Live it.
$79/month · or $690/year, saving $258 · 30-day experience guarantee
Thursdays, 9:00–10:30am Mountain · Your first live gathering is this Thursday
Come as you are. Return to your body. Continue from what you can feel.
Haola.
© The Chi Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong
Wisdom Healing Qigong is a practice for wellbeing. It is not medical care and does not diagnose, treat, or replace treatment from a licensed provider.