Wisdom Healing Qigong is a set of practices with a focus on posture alignment, gentle repetitive mindful movements, visualization and meditation, and sound, all designed to open up energy blockages in our body and restore our natural energy flow for greater health, happiness, and deep fulfillment in life. Scroll to learn more …
~~~ Sharing My Certification Highlights
and Some of My Healing Story ~~~
Level Two Teacher Certification Photo
with Master Mingtong Gu
Certification Retreat in June 2019
Teacher
Certification
Level One
October 2017
Click Here to watch a video from our October 2017 Level One Certification Retreat in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During the last 10 minutes of Master Mingtong Gu’s video teaching, I was asked to share part of my personal healing story with a particular focus on Wisdom Healing Qigong and the ultimate total healing of a particular neurological disorder I had had for nearly 30 years. It was indeed a privilege to be asked and a joy to share in the hope that it might offer encouragement to even one other person on their own healing journey.
This special session with Master Mingtong Gu was live streamed and shared as a replay. His entire Sunday morning teaching session had focused on Transformation and Healing for conditions such as Cancer, Parkinson’s, Lyme Disease, Auto-Immune Conditions, Neurological Disorders, and more. Click Here for a PDF that elaborates a little more on the Webinar.
Healing Facilitator Certification
Level One ~ October 2018
(Missing from photo – Jeff de Castro)
*** Click here for a personal 3-5 minute video done at my Healing Facilitator Certification Retreat in October 2018, again sharing part of my own Wisdom Healing Qigong Healing Story.
Teacher Certification
Level Two ~ June 2019
A list of Wisdom Healing Teachers world-wide can be found in the Teacher Directory
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Winter 2026
Wisdom Healing Qigong
Click here for Winter 2026 Flyer for easy reference, and easy printing and sharing.
~ Note: Some ending dates may vary due to other pending commitments. ~
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Our 8-week set of Winter 2026 classes will go from Jan 29th – Mar 26th
Each session will be a GO pending sufficient registrations.
If a GO, then drop-in classes are an option as space allows … though weekly attendance is of most benefit since classes build on each other, and even more so as you build toward a daily practice between classes, always as your life and time allow.
Morning and Evening Beginners classes are open to all, whether new or returning.
Afternoon Beyond Beginners classes are ONLY for those who have previously done at least one full set of 8-week classes, are fairly comfortable with the practices,
and feel ready to do a deeper practice.
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Winter 2026 Saturday Retreats yet to be scheduled
at Virginia Water Contemplative Centre on beautiful Virginia Lake
at 47 Parsonage Drive, St. John’s, off Logy Bay Road.
All welcome, whether brand new, or familiar with the practices.
The day will be a mix of quiet and practice. It can be a wonderful introduction or a great opportunity to go deeper into your practice.
Simply bring along a spirit of adventure, openness, and enthusiasm.
Always come with a “beginners mind”, whether new or returning!
Can come for either half day or full day.
Welcome, either way, to bring a brown bag lunch and have lunch together 12:30 – 1:30.
Please let me know when you register if you plan on attending a.m./p.m. or both.
9:30 – 12:30 for T’ai Chi Chih and 1:30 – 4:30 for Wisdom Healing Qigong
Cell is 709-727-7863. Please note my new G-mail address sheilaleonard67@gmail.com
Preregistration is recommended for classes and is required for Retreats.
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Suggested donation: $10 per class at the Lantern … $20 for each half day at Virginia Water …
or pay what you can, when you can, as your circumstances allow …
Donations can be made by cash, cheque payable to me, or e-transfer.
Please never let $$$ be an issue that prevents you from joining us …
you can always “pay forward” by doing a kindness for someone else.
We are all so connected that what we do for one of us we do for all of us.
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Give your self a treat in the midst of all else going on …
a little “time-out” just for YOU !
As one student summed it up,
“Doing it just feels good!”
Come, taste and see!
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ALLERGY REMINDER:
PLEASE KEEP SESSIONS AS SCENT-FREE AS POSSIBLE.
THANK YOU
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*** What is Wisdom Healing Qigong? ***
*** CLICK HERE for a printer-friendly copy
of what I call my GEMS poster highlighting the key components of Wisdom Healing Qigong.
Qigong itself is an ancient healing technology and revitalized science of energy healing, developed through more than 5000 years of Chinese history. Energy is alive. Energy wants to move. Energy wants to connect. The more freely energy flows, the more alive and healthy we are, body, mind and spirit, and the more happy and joyous and free!
This energy which animates all life is referred to as Chi, (pronounced ‘Chee’) or spelled “Qi” as in Qigong. Qi means “life energy” and “gong” means working with it and cultivation of its benefits, cultivating our capacity and our confidence in fostering greater health, happiness and well-being.
Wisdom Healing Qigong with its “Qigong for Life” focus guides your mind to access more directly, more deeply and more gently the natural universal energy of life all around us and within us. As Wisdom Healing Qigong Master Mingtong Gu so often reminds us, “Where the mind goes, energy flows”.
The practice of Wisdom Healing Qigong itself as taught by Master Mingtong Gu guides you to access this energy of life to calm your mind, re-energize your body and your life by releasing the energy blockages caused by stress.
Through posture alignment, gentle movement, visualization, sound, breathing and conscious intention, the ancient practice of Qigong energy healing dynamically restores the life energy and creative power within you.
A key and constant focus with Mingtong is the releasing of energy blockages, whatever their source, and thus the creating and fostering of new, healthier energy patterns for greater health and happiness and fulfillment of life.
As the underlying causes of life’s challenges are released, you reconnect with the universal source and bring new and vital energy streams into the flow of life. With consistent daily practice, you amplify a web of positive changes for you, your loved ones, and all life on all kinds of levels.
Among the many styles of Qigong, Zhineng (Tszu-nen) Qigong, known as Wisdom Healing™ Qigong, is said to be one of the most powerful. Translated literally, Zhineng Qigong means “Cultivating Wisdom Energy Ability.”
READ MORE ON-LINE re What is Qigong at
https://www.chicenter.com/Chi/Home/index.cfm?&app=chicenter&ssl=set
*** About Master Mingtong Gu ***
“Mingtong lives what he teaches, exudes vibrancy and love,
supports the empowerment and health of each person
and shares his experience and knowledge
as a wisdom master.”
– Bruce Fabric, M.D., Board Certified Psychiatrist
Master Mingtong Gu is an internationally recognized teacher and healer, teaching Qigong to thousands of people in the USA, China, and Europe. He trained with a variety of Grandmasters in China, including Dr. Pang Ming, a Qigong Grandmaster trained in Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and who himself
studied with at least 19 teachers and Masters. You can find a 13-minute video telling his personal healing story and and the story of the unfolding dream it gave birth to as you scroll down past the “On-Line Options” and the “Other Resources” headings below.
Dr. Pang synthesized his profound medical knowledge of old and new healing sciences into this ancient Qigong practice of self-healing for our modern pragmatic world. He had founded in the 1980’s what later grew into the world’s largest Qigong hospital, a “medicine-less” hospital, the Zhineng Qigong Center, in China which has treated over 200,000 patients, with over 185 different illnesses, and with a 95% effective improvement rate.
Click here to read more about how it works, what the research says, and overall benefits
In 1997 Mingtong returned to China to study with Dr. Pang and to train at the hospital. There he observed thousands of cases of chronic and “incurable” diseases being healed.Witnessing these profound healing experiences inspired his dedication to the teaching and practice of Qigong healing.
Through this practice, he recovered from his own chronic conditions of severe asthma, scoliosis, back pain and kidney weakness. In working with his students he found his life passion, purpose, and fulfillment in this union of spiritual practice and healing wisdom.
Mingtong was named Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress for Qigong and TCM in 2012, and is the founder of the Chi Center, formerly based at EarthRise at IONS in Petaluma, California, and relocated in October 2016 to an amazing site in Galisteo, NM.
Despite having earlier also earned several Masters Degrees while studying in the US, including in Math and The Fine Arts, Mingtong is quick to claim that the most important Mastery is that of oneself for one’s own self-healing and empowerment and for the healing of our whole Earth.
Master Gu’s teaching emphasizes activating the power of inner self-healing which facilitates the release of chronic illness, while improving health and well-being. Deep awakening and transformation typically arise in this process of healing. Wisdom Healing™ Qigong integrates many forms of traditional Qigong with Eastern and Western medicine. It is a concentrated and powerful system engaging all levels of physical, mental, emotional, and soulful healing.
Through posture, movement, sound, vizualization, breath and mental concentration, Qigong offers a methodology to rediscover the inner medicine – chi, the vital and natural healing resource within us. It does more than magnify the exchange of energy between ourselves and nature. In the process it enables us to fuse as One with the infinite creative power of the universe that ultimately is the origin of love, compassion, and the source of all healing.
“Master Mingtong Gu has brought a level of transmission of mind-body practice
that is unparalleled in my experience. Since making these teachings available to patients
in my medical practice, they become healthier and happier.”
– Brian Bouch, MD, Director of Hill Park Medical Center
“Mingtong is full of vitality, wisdom and skill. He is a real healer,
and the practices he teaches can change your life.”
– Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center
and the author of several bestselling books.
To Read More of Mingtong’s Biography and Dr. Pang click here:
http://www.chicenter.com/Chi/AboutUs/MasterTeachers/index.cfm
*** What are the benefits of Qigong? ***
By tapping into this ancient healing technology, you will develop powerful tools for self-healing.
Common Qigong Benefits:
• Strengthening your endocrine and immune systems
• Reducing stress, anxiety and depression
• Achieving a deeper sense of well-being, emotional stability and balance
• Becoming empowered to attract positive changes into your life
• Enhancing other mind-body-spiritual practices you may be following
• Deepening your connection to universal healing energy
Research has found Qigong training:
• Initiates the relaxation response; decreasing heart rate and blood pressure
• Alters the neurochemistry profile moderating pain, depression and addictive cravings,
as well as optimizing immune capability
• Enhances the efficiency of the immune system through increased rate and flow of the
lymphatic fluid
• Improves resistance to disease and infection and increases the efficiency of cell metabolism
and tissue regeneration
• Coordinates right/left brain hemisphere dominance promoting deep sleep, reduced anxiety
and mental clarity
• Induces alpha and theta brain waves which reduce heart rate and blood pressure, facilitating
relaxation, and mental focus
• Moderates the function of the glands, as well as the fluid of the brain and spinal cord,
which mediates pain and mood, potentiating immune function
To READ MORE, visit the About Us link at www.chicenter.com
Also invited to visit Wisdom Healing Qigong on Facebook
*** On-Line Options ***
Numerous wonderful links to information about on-line options, as well as on-site options, can be found by visiting the Chi Center Home Page at www.chicenter.com These can be for a day, a weekend , a week or several weeks or months, including special shorter or longer retreats, and professional trainings.
At the bottom of the Home Page you can also sign up for the free Chi Center Newsletter to keep up to date on happenings and offerings.
*** Local Community Sessions ***
• You are welcome to sign up for local weekly 8-week Beginners classes Thursday mornings from 10:30 – 12:00 and evenings from 7:00 – 8:30 at The Lantern, 35 Barnes Road in St. John’s, starting January, April and June. These classes are open to both new and returning students. There is also a dedicated practice session 2:00 – 3:30 which is only for returning students already quite familiar with the basic practices.
Since 2017 there have also been free Lunch Hour Wellness Sessions from 12:00 -1:00 on the lawn at Government House in July and August. Tuesdays for T’ai Chi Chih and Thursdays for Widom Healing Qigong. All welcome. whether brand new or already familiar with the practices. Can all be done seated or standing. Welcome to bring along a lawn chair!
For Lantern sessions there is a suggested voluntary contribution of $10/session … or an amount according to your ability to contribute. You can also “Pay Forward” by giving freely of your time and talents in some other context as your life and time allows. We are all so integrally connected that what we do for one we do for all. Please never let money keep you from joining us. Any contributions will be used to help support the continuation of Wisdom Healing Qigong as a Lantern Ministry and to help support the operation of the facility itself.
There are also occasional Saturday Retreat Days or half days for both TCC and WHQ at Virginia Water Contemplative Centre on beautiful Virginia Lake at 47 Parsonage Drive. See more details elsewhere under various headings on my site or on the News page.
*** OTHER RESOURCES ***
I have a small # of books on hand for purchase.
Welcome to visit The Chi Center You Tube Channel for multiple videos of interviews and practices with Master Mingtong, his wife Linling, or other teachers. www.chicenter.com/youtube
Below are several shorter and longer videos you may enjoy browsing, or practicing along with.
Some are follow-along practices led by Master Mingtong Gu. Some are basic teaching sessions.
Some are sessions led by other Wisdom Healing Qigong teachers, including myself, mostly as part of what Master Mingtong Gu had started as free daily sessions on-line from The Chi Center during the Covid Pandemic. He had called it Chi-TV. Chi-TV continues each week now as a free Tuesday session 12:30 – 1:30, open to all, whether new or more seasoned.
My personally led sessions or handouts I have created are marked with ***.
Any and all will give you a feel for Wisdom Healing Qigong and may prompt you to want to do more. Some of the videos you can begin to incorporate into a daily practice of your own.
Always welcome to join us for local classes. Scroll back to the top of this page for class flyer with times, days and dates and location. You can also keep up to date on the NEWS page on this site re ongoing updates regarding classes and other related happenings.
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*** Master Mingtong Gu’s Personal Story ***
*** Here is a You Tube link in which Mingtong shares his amazing personal healing story:
“The Journey and the Vision” – https://vimeo.com/187993912 (13:16)
*** Sample Introductory Information Videos ***
*** About Wisdom Healing Qigong (2:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AILQTJlLMd4
*** Discover Qigong for Health and Wellness (7:04)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVu_KvXtGwA
*** Here is a sample 9-minute teaching video with Master Mingtong Gu answering the question:
“What is the relationship between the emotions and a Healthy Immune System?“
*** Here is a sample 9-minute teaching video with Master Mingtong addressing the question”:
“Why is our personal spiritual work important for the evolution of ALL humanity and Planet Earth?”
*** Chi-TV on-line for Global Healing and Awakening ***
*** began during Covid-19 Pandemic and continues today ***
Her are some basics about Chi-TV first,
one of Master Mingtong’s most amazing gifts to us during Covid,
followed by an offering below of a rich selection
of teaching and practice videos/audios,
many of which we use in class,
and others for using on your own, either to deepen what we do in class,
or simply to explore what Wisdom Healing Qigong is about
if it tweaks your interest or simply finds you curious!
Chi-TV was originated by Master Mingtong Gu in April 2020 as a creative, free and easily accessible way to provide daily on-line Wisdom Healing Qigong practice opportunities that anyone could participate in during Covid-19 lockdowns through Zoom as well as You TUBE.
It was initiated as part of Master Mingtong’s dream of Global Healing and Transformation
as Covid-19 spread rapidly around the globe, with no one dream the path or the toll it would take as it would amazingly rolled over into 2022 … and then into 2023… and beyond!
Chi-TV was, and still is, open to all, whether brand new to Wisdom Healing Qigong or a seasoned practitioner. All practices can be done seated or standing, always modifying as your body allows. or can be enjoyed, with wonderful benefits, even while simply sitting or lying down and resting while visualizing the practice as if you were doing it. The Chi-TV sessions continue to be offered today, though only on Tuesdays, and still from 9:00 – 10:00MT, the time Zone at The Chi Center in New Mexico, which means 12:30 – 1:30 NL time.
These original FREE Chi-TV practice sessions initially alternated between two key movement practices called Awakening Vitality and Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down.You will find individual Awakening Vitality and Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down sections below, each with its own heading, where you can experience and learn more about these key forms, including guided practices for each. Each session was generally a 1-hour teacher-led practice that began with a 15-minute Chi Field Setting Meditation and then a 1/2 hour movement practice followed by 5 fun minutes of free dance movement to help integrate and circulate the energy we have gotten moving, and then a 10-minute closing integration meditation.
Today the Chi-TV sessions are led by either Master Mintong or by Linling, also an amazing teacher and healer. Master Mingtong’s and Linling are husband and wife and together operate the Chi Center. A third wonderfully powerful healing practice, called Lachi, is now an integral part of their Chi-TV teaching and practice sessions and also has its own teaching and practice section below under the Lachi heading.
There are 3 easy ways to join the LIVE Wisdom Healing Qigong
Chi-TV teaching and practice sessions on Tuesdays from 12:30 – 1:30 NL time :
(These can also be found in the Sept 1st post on my NEWS page on this site …)
1. If you prefer to join the live Chi-TV practices directly from the Chi Center page on Tuesdays, click here, without needing to sign in or sign in if asked: chicenter.com/watchnow
2. You can click here to join via the Chi Center You Tube Channel by clicking on the VIDEOS or LIVE links at Chi Center You Tube Channel
3. If you want to participate via live Zoom, with or without your webcam, you can use this Zoom link Chi TV, every Tuesday at 9am MDT
https://chicenter.zoom.us/j/227457119?pwd=OEhCM1ZxUjNWcjlmU1c0bWZIUmFXQT09
Or on your Zoom JOIN page, simply type in the Zoom ID # 227 457 119
and the Password: Awaken
The most recent Chi-TV and numerous other teaching and practice recordings can be en-JOY-ed as a replay at any time, as your life and time allow, on the Chi Center You Tube Channel under the LIVE and VIDEO menu buttons.
Here also is the Chi Center Facebook link for finding numerous Chi Center video and video/practice links … and constantly updated info re other offerings from the Chi Center.
https://www.facebook.com/wisdomhealingqigong/
Also, links to some of the Chi-TV Awaken Vitality and Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down global sessions which I had led during Covid-19, and some since, can be found below under the respective headings below and will be marked by 3 asterisks ***
*** Chi Field Setting ***
Foundational to any Wisdom Healing Qigong practice is what we call the Chi Field Setting Meditation … which more deeply grounds us in our coming home to our bodies and in our inner and outer connection with the Energy of the entire Universe, which is often in many circles referred to as Chi (pronounced “chee”).
Here is the link to the printed copy of Master Mingtong’s Chi Field Setting Script in its essence for easy reference and copying. Master Mingtong, Linling, and other teachers use variations of that original script to begin a practice session.
*** Here is a link you can click for a personal audio recording I did of the Chi Field Setting Script . In class we may use it or use a variation. I encourage you to make a practice of using the Chi Field Setting or a variation of it as a meditation every day as life and time allow, before a practice or simply to start your day or during the day to help focus your energy and thoughts before some important happening.
Note: Maybe make your own Chi Field Setting recording!
I would strongly encourage you to eventually do a recording of your own that you can use to listen to instead of reading the paper copy. … there’s something amazing about listening our own voice that resonates more deeply within us, too, though it may feel a little funny when we listen to ourselves first. Most phones have a Voice Recorder. Perhaps record part of it and stop and then do some more, as a practice, and then start fresh and do the whole recording. En-JOY the adventure if so inclined to do the recording. You may both surprise and delight yourself!
*** 100 Day Gong Video Practice ***
*** Here is a You Tube link for a 20 minute 100 Day Gong Challenge from Mingtong which again you can follow along with or simply watch and drink in for a taste. This was initially sent out to students and teachers 100 days prior to the opening of the new Chi Center in Santa Fe as a way of blessing the new Center in anticipation of its opening … Click here for the link … 100 Day Gong You Tube video
*** Click here for a printable handout I have created as an easy time-line reference to guide you through the various practices on the 100-Day Gong video.
*** Lachi Practice ***
*** “How to Heal with the Light Ball” is one of the amazingly simple yet powerful healing practices we learn in Wisdom Healing Qigong. Here is an introductory teaching and practice session with Mingtong which can be found on You Tube (10 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4JcTVd9Tv4
*** In this Lachi Practice called Head, Heart and Concern, Master Mingtong leads a powerful Wisdom Healing Qigong Lachi practice integrating Sound Healing using Kai Hui. Kai means Opening to the Source Energy of the Universe, Hui meaning Gathering the Energy and bringing it deep inside. (23 minutes)
*** In this July 2, 2019 video, Haola Lachi Practice on Zhineng Qigong Culture Day, Master Mingtong leads a powerful Wisdom Healing Qigong Lachi teaching and practice session integrating Sound Healing using Haola, meaning All is Well and Getting Better. (52 minutes)
*** Here is a January 5, 2023 You Tube link and my Facebook link for a powerful Full Moon Lachi Healing session with Master Mingtong Gu on January 5, 2023 to start off the New Year. Full Moons are a tremendously awesome time for healing on all levels.
*** Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down Practices ***
*** Here is a link for a 23 minute Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down (LCUPCD) practice at the Ocean which we use in class. In this video Master Mingtong guides us as we follow along with Linling while she does the practice. You can also copy and paste this link. https://vimeo.com/147811001 . The first 4 minutes are a lovely Chi Field Setting leading us into the actual movement. A wonderful daily practice, or as life and time allow, for connecting with deeper energy inside and from the Universe for powerful healing. Follow along as much as you like, as often as you like without trying to learn the sequence by heart. That will happen automatically over time. You can also turn off the volume and simply follow along in silence once you are more familiar with it.
*** Here is another lovely 29-minute guided Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice you can en-JOY with Master Mingtong Gu as your life and time allow … The first 5 minutes is the all-important Chi Field Setting meditation. We also use this one in class.
*** Here another 46-minute Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down video practice … beginning with a 7-minute Chi Field Setting meditation. Wonderful guidance and wonderfully clear visual presentation. Within the practice there is an occasional reference to the HYLT (Hun Yuan Ling Tong) we is part of a practice we generally have introduced in our afternoon Beyond Beginners class for returning students.
*** Here is another link for a 35-minute Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down for Love and Peace practice with Master Mingtong Gu
*** Here is a lovely shorter 17-minute Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice with Master Mingtong Gu as he leads a large group from the stage at a Conference. Though he is further away, it is still easy to follow along with.
NOTE:
The following is a set of Chi Center You Tube links
for Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practices
which I have led on Chi-TV since 2020 …
Many of those You Tube Videos can also be found on my Facebook pages
by scrolling down to the dates noted below.
Some have only my Facebook link since their You Tube links are no longer available.
*** Here is the August 1, 2020 You Tube link and my Facebook link for a Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice as part of our Global Chi-TV program through the Chi Center … followed by our usual free movement dance time and then Master Mingtong’s meditation.
*** Here is my August 29, 2020 Facebook link for a Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice s part of our Global Chi-TV program through the Chi Center … followed by our usual free movement dance time and then Master Mingtong’s meditation.
*** Here is the September 19, 2020 You Tube link and my Facebook link for a full SEATED Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice as part of our Global Chi-TV program through the Chi Center … followed by our usual free movement dance time and then Master Mingtong’s meditation.
*** Here is my October 17, 2020 Facebook link and the You Tube link for a Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down , followed by our usual free movement dance time and then Master Mingtong’s meditation. My actual practice begins at 15:00 minutes into the video. The first 15 minutes of the Facebook link Sarah, our host, is responding to questions about Wisdom Healing Qigong. The You Tube link starts a few minutes into the practice.
*** Here is my October 31, 2020 Facebook link for a Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice , followed by our usual free movement dance time and then a meditation led this time by Teacher and host for our Chi-TV sessions, Sarah Sampayo, in Master Mingtong’s absence.
*** Here is my December 26, 2020 Facebook link for a Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice , followed by our usual free movement dance time and then a meditation led this time by Teacher and host for our Chi-TV sessions, Sarah Sampayo, in Master Mingtong’s absence.
*** Here is my January 23, 2021 Facebook link and the You Tube Link for a Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice , followed by our usual free movement dance time and then a meditation led by Master Mingtong Gu as part of our regular Saturday Chi-TV sessions through the Chi Center.
*** Here is my February 27, 2021 Facebook link and the You Tube Link for a much SLOWER Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice , followed by our usual free movement dance time and then a meditation led by Master Mingtong Gu as part of our regular Saturday Chi-TV sessions through the Chi Center.
*** Here is the March 27, 2021 You Tube link and my Facebook link to a slower Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice , followed by our usual free movement dance time and then followed by a meditation as part of our regular weekly Chi-TV sessions through the Chi Center.
*** Here also are 2021 April 10th (Betsy), 17th (Diane) and 24th (me) Facebook link practices for Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down, followed by our usual free movement dance time and then followed by a meditation as part of our regular weekly Chi-TV sessions through the Chi Center.
*** Here is the May 15, 2021 You Tube link to a SLOWER Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice, followed by our usual free movement dance time and then followed by a meditation as part of our regular weekly Chi-TV sessions through the Chi Center.
*** Here is my December 28, 2021 You Tube link for a much SLOWER Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice, followed by our usual free movement dance time and then followed by a meditation as part of our regular weekly Chi-TV sessions through the Chi Center.
Note: The free Chi-TV sessions continue to be offered on Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30 NL time.
You can join us through Zoom Link or You Tube. or click HERE to watch latest one now
on the Chi Center web site. Can also see my NEWS page for the links in my March 24, 2024 Chi-TV information post.
*** Awaken Vitality Practices ***
*** Below are links for two Awaken Vitality guided video practices with Master Mingtong Gu. The first one is a short 8 min demo just meant for watching to get a feel. The longer one is great for a follow-along practice as life and time allow, doing only parts of it if you wish as you are ready. They both have the full set of the 5 Awaken Vitality movements – Spinal Bone Marrow, Hip Rotations, Crane’s Neck, Bending Spine, Chen Chi, with an opening Chi Field Meditation and a closing as energy “bookends”.
Short Demo and teaching for viewing only … https://vimeo.com/57718688 8 Min 29 sec
Full Practice and teaching for following along … https://vimeo.com/60772947 28 min 59 sec
The 8 minute demo, simply for watching only, shows a brief walk-through for 4 of the 5 moves, with wonderful teaching bits from Mingtong. Great to simply watch over and over again!
The other is a 28 minute full practice video. We would be learning and practicing the moves in more detail and with more guidance in a regular class so you could do them with optimum care and for optimum benefit. You may enjoy following along with the full video and seeing how they flow one into the other. Simply practice along with the simpler movements – Spinal Bone Marrow, Hip Rotations, Chen Chi – as much as you like. I recommend mostly watching Bending Spine and Crane’s Neck at first until you get more of a feel for them. Becomes simpler with practice over time … may feel like a lot at first. Easy does it! One bit at a time! As life and time allow … hopefully some each day and gradually for longer periods of time.
*** Click this Dropbox link to share a wonderful 38 minute Awaken Vitality guided video practice with Master Mingtong Gu The practice includes the full set of the 5 Awaken Vitality movements – Spinal Bone Marrow, Hip Rotations, Crane’s Neck, Bending Spine, Chen Chi, with its usual Chi Field Meditation to begin, and then a double Bending Spine practice as an added bonus. Perhaps it may encourage you to repeat the Bending Spine when you practice on your own, noticing what it feels like as it takes you deeper with the repetition.
*** Here is a bonus practice with Master Mingtong with Spinal Bone Marrow for Awakening the Heart …
How to release accumulated energetic stress from your body –
an 8-Minute Meditative movement & sound healing practice video –
Spinal Bone Marrow and Open Heart Activation
NOTE:
The following is a set of Chi Center You Tube links
for Awaken Vitality practices
which I have led on Chi-TV since 2020 …
Many of those You Tube Videos can also be found on my Facebook pages
by scrolling down to the dates noted below.
Some have only my Facebook link since their You Tube links are no longer available.
Mostly I had led Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down and fewer Awaken Vitality
since most other teachers tended to do Awaken Vitality.
*** Here is the October 3rd , 2020 You Tube Link and my Facebook link for a full SEATED Awaken Vitality as part of our Global Chi-TV program through the Chi Center… followed by our usual free movement dance time and then Master Mingtong’s meditation.
*** Here is the December 27, 2022 You Tube link for a full Awaken Vitality practice which I had led as part of our Global Chi-TV program through the Chi Center… followed by our usual free movement dance time and then Master Mingtong’s meditation.
*** Here is the January 3, 2023 You Tube link and my Facebook link for a full Awaken Vitality as part of our Global Chi-TV program through the Chi Center… followed by our usual free movement dance time and then Master Mingtong’s meditation.
Note: The free Chi-TV sessions continue to be offered on Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30 NL time.
You can join us through Zoom Link or You Tube. or click HERE to watch latest one now.
Can also see my NEWS page for the links in my March 24, 2024 Chi-TV information post.
*** Five Organ Sound Healing Practice ***
*** Click HERE for a printable copy of Master Mingtong Gu’s Sound Healing Chart for the Five Organ Sound Healing Practice
*** Here is a link for a simple 5-Organ Sound Healing practice with Master Mingtong in 2016 and which we used at the end of our Spring 2023 Wisdom Healing Qigong session …
Full Sound Healing Practice with Master Mingtong Gu from 2016 (37 minutes – with tapping at the end)
*** CLICK HERE for a free full Sound Healing Practice led by Master Mingtong Gu with a focus on Grief and Healing through Sound Healing During Times of Crisis – Including When Someone We Love Dies. Full free Sound Healing practices led by Master Mingtong are a rare treasure.
This practice video was part of a July 25, 2020 Chi Center Course called Practice with the Master which is a registered, paid course continuing until mid-August. In a rare gesture for material from these registered courses, this recording is being made available free by Master Mingtong for enjoying and sharing as widely and as often as you like. It was an amazingly moving moment and I am so excited to be able to share it with you … and you can do the same if you wish. EnJOY it again and again …
*** CLICK HERE for a free full Sound Healing Practice led by Master Mingtong Gu with a focus on Transforming Fear to Love from a live November 2016 practice. Our current, collective experience is not just about one person or party or this moment in history. It is about many things, including the opportunity we have right now for individuals and humanity to come together, learning and healing our longstanding discord and misunderstandings, together. It is important to remember that none of us is either powerless or without choice. Anything we can do from a place of love will bring more healing, and anything we do from a place of fear will bring the opposite of peace.
*** CLICK HERE link below for a full Sound Healing practice with Master Mingtong Gu ~~~ “World Tai Chi and Qigong Day 2017: Sound Healing” … enJOY!
*** This next video of Mingtong at an Institute of Noetic Sciences Conference (IONS) (28:53) is excellent regarding the “Science” of Qigong – so simply put! It includes a follow-along Sound Healing practice for 3 of the 5 organ systems organs about 13 minutes through the video. The first half has some simple yet profound teachings from Mingtong as a Power Point presentation leading into the practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKilv8QmwbE
*** Here is the link for the Chi Center Global Awakening and Healing Chi-TV practice and meditation from September 12, 2020 . It includes an Awaken Vitality practice with teacher, Kate Holbrook, followed by a special full Sound Healing practice with Master Mingtong Gu for all affected by the massive fires. Master Mingtong’s wonderful Sound Healing teaching starts at 33 minutes. and the practice starts at 43 minutes … for both individual and collective healing.
*** Click here for the January 18, 2022 Chi-TV link for a full Sound Healing practice which I had led, followed by our usual free movement dance time and then a brief Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice as a moving meditation to further integrate the flow of the energy and healing for ourselves, for all of humanity and for the entire Universe.
Note: The free Chi-TV sessions continue to be offered on Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30 NL time.
You can join us through Zoom or You Tube. or visit www.chicenter.com
Can also see my NEWS page for the links.
*** Inner Smile Meditation ***
Another of the healing practices we do is called The Inner Smile Meditation.
*** Here is the link to my very favourite “Mind to Heart” Inner Smile Meditation … about 23 minutes …
*** Here is a 16 minute You Tube link to another Inner Smile Meditation called “Happiness Practice – Inner Smile”
*** Here is another Inner Smile Meditation – with Master Mingtong Gu – 17 minutes …
*** Here is a link to An Inner Smile Meditation which I recorded as part of my training and saved in my dropbox – 19 minutes
EN-JOY!!!
3A’s Meditation Practice
*** Here is the link for the Inner Smile 3A’s Meditation Practice link from our class …
En-JOY it over and over … amazing …
*** Dragon Arms Practice ***
*** Dragon Arms is a delightfully AWAKENING experience for your entire body as the energy flows more and more freely! Here are three Dragon Arms video links you can en-JOY practicing with at home, and sometimes with us in class. Several of you already have experienced these from our sessions at The Lantern or on Zoom.
This first one is a video link for Dragon Arms with the Pure Consciousness Humming sound. It is from a Shift Network Fall 2019 Course promo video. This video link comes with an abundance of info about Master Mingtong’s Pure Consciousness Course the Shift Network was promoting at the time. My only access to this particular Dragon Arms link is if I send you the whole Promo e-mail. Makes for a very interesting read!
Dragon Arms video link with Humming (5 minutes 37 seconds)
This second one is from my first Wisdom Healing Qigong Shift Network Course with Master Mingtong Gu in 2016.
Dragon Arms Video Link (7 min)
This third one is a wonderful new 12-minute March 2021 recording of Dragon Arms.
Dragon Arms March 15, 2021 (12 minutes)
*** Standing Meditation ***
Here are the two links for the Standing Meditation Practice we have recently been doing in class.
*** The first is a Dropbox link to a wonderful 17-minute Standing Meditation Video of a teaching/practice session with Master Mingtong Gu.
*** The second is the February 4, 2025 Chi-TV You Tube link with Linling in which she integrates Standing Meditation into a modified Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice.
*** Eating Energetic Healing Foods ***
*** Chi and Food: How to eat energetic healing foods ( and much more!) (23:11)
More about HOW rather than WHAT we eat! This is especially good if you follow to the end re
how Qigong can help heal any disease and can also be an amazing support for those taking
medicines or doing treatments such as for Cancer or other major illnesses. Mingtong invites us
to a new understanding of all food and all medicine as powerful energy.
The movements, the sounds/chanting, the visualizations
can be done in any position,
standing, sitting or lying down,
according to each one’s ability, for whatever reason.
As Mingtong says repeatedly,
all you need is “your own best effort”
and the Chi will do the rest!
Doing Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down
at the new Chi Center in Santa Fe
which opened October 2, 2016
as the fruit of the unfolding of Mingtong’s dream
for sharing Wisdom Healing Qigong
for the healing of ourselves,
each other, and all of life