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Now take the next step in your awakening journey.

If this summit is already stirring something deep within you, the Embodied Awakening Program BUNDLE is the guided path to help you turn inspiration into embodied transformation.

Begin Your Embodied Awakening Journey

Join hundreds of summit participants continuing their journey through embodied practice.

Within This Bundle of Programs You’ll Learn How To

  • Restore natural energy and vitality
  • Release emotional tension stored in the body
  • Reconnect with inner clarity and purpose
  • Cultivate a simple daily embodied practice
  • Integrate mind, heart, body, and awareness

What You Will Receive

  • ✔ 8-Module Embodied Awakening Course
  • ✔ 3 Months Path Live Community Access
  • ✔ Coming Home to Embodied Awakening — the Book
  • ✔ $1,699+ in Additional Practice Bonuses

Total Program Value

$2,434+

Future Public Price: $597

This program was created specifically for participants of the Coming Home to Embodied Awakening Summit.

Summit Participant Price

$329

Join the Program Now

What All the Healing Stories Have in Common

If you attended the summit, you witnessed the journeys of Debra, Otis, Cynthia, and Tom.

Each story is unique. Yet they share something important.

They all entered the practice.

They stepped into a living field of Wisdom Healing Qigong practice — through retreats, community practice, and consistent embodiment. This is where transformation begins.

The Embodied Awakening Program was created so anyone can begin this journey.

Why This Program BUNDLE Exists

Over the years, Master Mingtong Gu noticed something important.

Many people experience powerful insights during summits, retreats, or workshops.

For a moment they feel:

  • deeply present
  • connected to their body
  • clear about their life direction

But after returning to everyday life, those experiences often fade.

Not because the insight was wrong.

But because lasting transformation requires consistent practice.

What Students Are Saying

“I didn’t know how much my body had been waiting to feel this alive. The chi field became so tangible that my pain transformed into light and movement. I could finally breathe again — from my soul.”

— Andrea Ishikawa

“Greetings from Ireland. I have Parkinson’s and have been drug-free for years using Wisdom Healing Qigong. Today’s Path reminded me again — the power is truly within us.”

— Raymond Noble

“I just went through a cardiac arrest event four weeks ago. A less than 1% chance of survival and I came through it intact. There is no doubt in my mind that the three years of Qigong had prepared me to survive that event.”

— Dan Furtado

“It was like I got plugged back into life or life plugged back into me. Whatever happened. I got my life back. I got my energy back. I got my joy back.”

— Debra Chamberlin Taylor

The Implementation Gap

Many people leave a summit inspired.
They take notes.
They reflect on new possibilities.
They feel a sense of awakening.
But within weeks something familiar happens.

Life becomes busy again.
Notes remain unread.
Insights slowly fade.

Not because the teachings weren’t meaningful.
But because real transformation requires embodiment, not just inspiration.
When the body becomes part of the process, something remarkable begins to happen.

  • Energy begins to flow.
  • Clarity returns.
  • Healing becomes possible again.

Why This Path Works When Others Don’t

Many people who come to Wisdom Healing Qigong have already explored other approaches. They may have tried:

  • Meditation practices
  • Therapy or coaching
  • Personal growth workshops
  • Spiritual teachings that focus mainly on the mind

These approaches can offer valuable insights.

But many people discover something important: insight alone rarely creates lasting change.

Real transformation begins when the body becomes part of the process.

Wisdom Healing Qigong works differently because it integrates four essential elements:

The Body’s Natural Intelligence

The practices help you reconnect with the body’s inherent healing capacity.

Energy Activation

Gentle movements and sound practices awaken the flow of Qi, restoring vitality and balance.

The Healing Field

Practicing within a community creates a powerful collective field that supports transformation.

Consistent Embodied Practice

Small daily practices allow healing and awakening to unfold naturally over time.

When these four elements come together, something remarkable begins to happen.

Energy flows. The nervous system settles. The body begins reorganizing itself toward greater health, clarity, and presence.

This is why so many people who encounter these teachings experience changes they had not found elsewhere.

Why Many Participants Continue After the Summit

After every summit we hear the same reflection:

“I don’t want this to become just another event I enjoyed and then moved on from.”

Participants realize something important.
Transformation rarely happens through inspiration alone.
It happens through consistent embodied practice.

That’s why many summit participants choose to continue their journey inside the Embodied Awakening Program.

Inside they receive something the summit cannot provide:

  • A clear path of practice
  • Guided integration of the teachings
  • A supportive community
  • A structure that helps the experience deepen over time

What Makes This Program BUNDLE Different

Most personal growth approaches focus primarily on the mind.

They teach concepts and frameworks to think differently.

But embodied awakening begins somewhere else. It begins with the body itself.

Through gentle practices rooted in Wisdom Healing Qigong, you reconnect with the body’s natural intelligence.

Rather than forcing change through effort, the practices restore balance so healing and awareness can arise naturally.

What Your First 30 Days May Look Like

During your first weeks of practice, you may begin to experience:

  • More stable energy
  • Deeper calm in the body
  • Increased emotional awareness
  • Clearer thinking
  • A daily rhythm of embodied practice

These shifts begin subtly but grow into profound transformation over time.

Your Journey Through the 8-Module Course

MODULE 1 — The Four Noble Truths for Our Time

The body is not in the way — it is the way. This module reframes the foundation of modern suffering as disconnection, and begins your return.

MODULE 2 — The Body Is the Temple

Your body is not matter — it is movement. Not just structure — it is spirit. Discover the three levels of body wisdom and the medicine already inside you.

MODULE 3 — Pain as a Portal

Pain is not punishment. Discomfort is not failure. Learn The Three A’s — Acceptance, Activation, Appreciation — and let what once felt like a closed door become a threshold.

MODULE 4 — The Heart as the Gateway

When the heart opens, healing moves through the entire five-organ energy system. Sound becomes medicine. Emotions become energy.

MODULE 5 — The Mind as an Ally

An untrained mind contracts your energy. This module trains Awareness, Intention, Concentration, and Visualization — the four gates of inner mastery.

MODULE 6 — Presence Beyond Identity

Beyond the name, the story, the role — there is pure presence. Healing and awakening are revealed as one and the same.

MODULE 7 — The Five Sacred Connections

You are woven into a vast field: your body, the Earth, Heaven, the community, and timeless Essence. This module guides you from isolation into interbeing.

MODULE 8 — Alignment and Fulfillment

True fulfillment lives not in striving but in alignment. When body, mind, heart, and spirit move as one, energy is liberated and life flows.

Coming Home to Embodied Awakening — the Book By Master Mingtong Gu

This program now includes Master Mingtong’s newest book — Coming Home to Embodied Awakening — as a companion to your practice.

Where the modules guide you through direct experience, the book deepens your understanding of the principles behind the practice. The healing stories of Debra, Dr. Cynthia Li, Tom, and others appear here in full — offering context, inspiration, and the living proof that this path works.

Choose the format that serves your practice:

✔  Printed Edition — Value: $25.99  (a tangible companion you can return to, annotate, and share)

✔  Kindle Edition — Value: $9.99  (immediate access, readable anywhere)

The book is included as part of your Embodied Awakening Program enrollment.

Continue Practicing With Master Mingtong Gu and Community

3 Months of Path Live Membership

The course gives you the foundation. Path Live provides the weekly practice field where transformation deepens.

Inside Path Live you’ll experience:

  • Live guided practice sessions with Master Mingtong Gu each week
  • Deeper teachings and integration support
  • Connection with practitioners worldwide
  • A supportive environment for consistent practice
  • Replay access 24/7 so you stay connected when life is full

“The very essence of my life. Not a practice — a becoming.”

— Barbara McLawhorn

“Am having my 92nd birthday on Monday — I feel Wisdom Healing Qigong has kept me functional, working, teaching, filled with vitality and life. Layers and layers get revealed — a sense of being lighter and free.”

— Reesa Boyce


Transformation in Numbers

Additional Practice Bonuses

You will also receive:

✔  Healing Session Recordings from Master Mingtong Gu — Value: $970

✔  Immune System Upgrade Practices — Value: $440

✔  Healing of Generational Trauma Training — Value: $130

✔  Self-Healing of Chronic Conditions Training — Value: $159

Everything Included in the bundle

8-Module Embodied Awakening Course

$322

3 Months Path Live Membership – Live Transmissions plus Community

$387

Coming Home to Embodied Awakening — Printed Book (Free in the USA)

$25.99

Coming Home to Embodied Awakening — Pre-order Digital Copies for International Delivery

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Healing Session Recordings

$970

Immune System Upgrade

$440

Healing of Generational Trauma

$130

Self-Healing of Chronic Conditions

$159

Total Program Value

$2,434+

Summit Participant Price

$329

Join the Program Now

Meet Your Guide: Master Mingtong Gu

World-Renowned Qigong Master · Founder · International Qigong Master of the Year

Master Mingtong Gu is a world-renowned Qigong master, teacher, and founder of The Chi Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong. Named International Qigong Master of the Year, he has guided thousands of students worldwide in reclaiming their health, vitality, and spiritual presence.

Trained in China in the ancient lineages of Qigong and steeped in Buddhist and Taoist wisdom, Master Mingtong brings decades of experience in witnessing and facilitating profound healing — from chronic illness to emotional trauma to spiritual awakening. His approach integrates the Five Medicines (Body, Earth, Heaven, Community, and Essence) into a living practice that transforms how people inhabit their bodies and navigate their lives.

Master Mingtong is the architect of the Embodied Awakening movement, which addresses the modern crisis of disconnection — from AI overwhelm to nervous system collapse — by returning people to the wisdom of the body and the field. His teaching is transmission-based: he doesn’t just explain concepts, he activates energy. Students describe his presence as both grounding and luminous, his teaching as the bridge between ancient practice and modern life.

He is the author of Coming Home to Embodied Awakening and leads transformative programs including The Portal (energetic activations), The Path (daily practice rhythms), intensive retreats, and advanced certification trainings. His mission: to help millions reclaim their power, presence, and fulfillment by awakening the healing energy within.

“I’ve spent my life studying healing traditions from around the world and practicing them, and I have to say, honestly, from my heart and my mind, that this is the most impactful experience of healing I’ve ever had.”

— Joan Borysenko, PhD

Praise From Recognized Leaders

"I came away from a retreat with Master Mingtong filled with a wonderful sense of aliveness, wakefulness, and openheartedness. He is a compassionate healer, a wise teacher, and a real force for transformation in today's world. "
Tara Brach, PhD.
Clinical Psychologist and Meditation Teacher
“Mingtong is like a moonbeam, like a sun. I can feel the warmth of his love and his joy. I mean, he makes me cry in a good way… wow. So we need so much of this energy and wisdom that he brings.”
Lynne Twist
Co‑founder of the Pachamama Alliance, Author of The Soul of Money
"Master Mingtong Gu is an exquisite embodiment of being "happy for no reason." I've had the great pleasure of taking courses from Master Mingtong Gu, and I continue to receive wonderful benefits from those courses and experience better health and a more joyful life. His message is a true blessing to our world, which is in need of more happy Chi!"
Marci Shimoff
Author, Happy for No Reason, Love For No Reason, Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

Our Practice Guarantee

We invite you to experience this work directly and let your own body be the guide.

  • 2-Week Practice Guarantee on the Embodied Awakening Course: If within two weeks you decide the program is not right for you, request a full refund.
  • 30-Day Guarantee on Path Live Membership: If you don’t feel aligned within 30 days, you’ll receive a full refund. No guilt. No pressure.

Your Journey Begins Here

If something in the summit touched your heart…

If part of you feels called to explore this path…

The Embodied Awakening Program was created for exactly this moment.

Your journey does not need to remain an inspiration.

It can become your lived experience.

Begin Your Embodied Awakening Journey — $329

8-Module Course · 3 Months Path Live · The Book · $900+ in Bonuses

@The Chi Center

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:

  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.

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

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.