Intergenerational & Planetary Transformation through Sound Healing, Prayer, & Ritual

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Did you know you have a superpower that can transform personal and planetary suffering into peace and joy?

Well, you do…

It might be more subtle than leaping tall buildings or moving objects with your mind, but we were each born with the ability to use sounds to heal and shift negative emotions into positive ones.

However, as we grew up, most of us forgot how to use this powerful talent in an effective way.

All ancient traditions have had rituals which contain sound — like chanting, singing, prayers, and drumming — and provide them a direct connection with the universal energy which is far bigger than our problems.

And at this critical point in history, we must call upon ALL of our sacred tools and practices to change our trajectory.

According to multiple prophecies of indigenous people the world over, this is a time of major transformation and renewal of consciousness, a time that is pivotal for our common well-being and the survival of the human race.

Global economic challenges, political turmoil, and undeniable environmental collapse require a radically different way of relating to each other and the planet on which we live.

In fact, because the signs of these prophecies are rising to the surface now indigenous communities from all over the planet overlooked their differences and came together — united in Oneness — to resist the “black snake” pipeline at Standing Rock.

Right now, our global family is experiencing great pain and discord, but it’s essential to remember that most causes, and solutions, to suffering start with the self….

In this day and age, there is an increasing disconnection between our minds and our hearts. And when this happens, we not only suffer internally, we often direct our pain outward energetically. This might show up in the physical world bodies as someone yelling at their kids, or others in great power may escalate violence against people they perceive as “others.”

Similarly, from the fields of both science and spirituality, we know that global change begins within each individual and ripples out. Collective change is the manifestation of the energy of transformation reaching critical mass (1% of Earth’s population becomes a tipping point).

The field of consciousness and energy on planet Earth is a collaborative, accumulative, and co-creative life force. When you make a positive change in your life or community, it impacts the greater world.

Fortunately, nature gifted us with sound technology which re-patterns blocked physical, emotional and mental/spiritual energy — experienced as pain and suffering — into energy which flows freely, bringing forth natural states of happiness, compassion, openness and clarity.

In fact, sound can heal traumas passed down intergenerationally. For example, if your grandmother was a Holocaust survivor, you may experience residual anxieties carried in your genes which show up in your life as “fight or flight” in your body.

From ancient Qigong perspectives, emotions are an energetic experience in the organs, rather than a feeling arising from the brain. And sacred sounds taught in this practice access the deep energy patterns within the organs, harmonizing them and creating new, healthy and stable emotional patterns.

So if for example, you’re experiencing anxiety passed down from your family or ancestors, you might want to focus on sounds which change the vibrations of your liver which is associated with fear.

Disease or trauma is energy being expressed in unhealthy patterns. And we can use simple sound practices to bring high quality, vibrational healing to any condition or emotional state, and facilitate a state of health and harmony. It’s also applicable to any conflict or concern — whether personal, in your workplace or global.

What sets sound healing apart from many Western healing modalities, is that it’s a direct and experiential way to transform your emotions and align with your natural “energetic blueprint” as well as the energy of all life.

It doesn’t rely upon medications with long lists of side effects. You don’t need to strain your brain to forcefully replace negative thoughts with a positive one. It moves you away from your storylines and limiting beliefs into pure vibrations.

For example, Wisdom Healing Qigong (WHQ)’s Five Organ Integrative Sound Healing provides access to your organs directly for the purpose of healing and harmonizing all dimensions of your five organ system (heart, kidneys, pancreas, lungs) … including your emotional energy body.

You learn to relate to the energy of your organs, beneath the triggers of your experiences, bypassing your brain’s labels. We experience the harmony and the Oneness when each of our organs, on all levels — physical, emotional, mental and spiritual — are communicating freely.

At first sound healing might sound “woo-woo” to many of us who didn’t grow up with Traditional Chinese Medicine or indigenous practices, but remember western doctors do use ultrasound waves to break up kidney stones (and so much more!) and sound healing for collecting healing and awakening is now being explored more in-depth by science….

Leaders in Sound Therapy, such as Dr. Richard Gerber (Vibrational Medicine) and Jonathan Goldman (Healing Sound), found that sound in the forms of chanting, toning, drumming, and mantras is an effective tool for altering the electromagnetic field and impulses of an individual and the environment.

Sound produces measurable vibratory feelings throughout the body, altered by the frequency and amplitude of the sound. Researchers have found that certain sounds influence the geometric patterns and organization of cells and living systems.

Resonance (the basic vibratory rate of an object) can be changed through entrainment, and that according to Goldman,”involves the ability of more powerful rhythmic vibrations of one object to change the less powerful rhythmic vibrations of another object and cause them to synchronize their rhythms with the first object.

Through sound, it is possible to change the rhythms of our brain waves, as well as our heartbeat and respiration.” Sound restores homeostasis and brings us back to our natural order of health and well-being. Research also shows that the effects of sound are accumulative — meaning the more you incorporate sound healing into your daily routine, the greater and more permanent effect it can have on your energies and the collective energetic field.

There is no better time than now to unite as one heart, focused on the singular intention of creating a loving and sustainable world, not only for ourselves now, but for generations to come.

As we connect with critical mass conscious — using our innate sound healing “superpowers” — we can transform the old pattern of fear into a strong vibration of love and joy… launching us forward into a new reality.

Life-Mastery Program

Learn step-by-step at your own pace with community teachings led by Master Mingtong

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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"

"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..."

"Gratitude for this Online Retreat – Master Mingtong and all at The Chi Center making these teachings possible to reach us anywhere. Gratitude and Haola."

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 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.

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."

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.

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

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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Dogs must arrive clean and groomed with unscented shampoos
  6. If we have other guests in attendance who have pet sensitivities, service dogs’ access to the kiva and dining hall may be limited.
  7. All pets will need to be leashed whenever they are outside of their owner’s assigned guest room.
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