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Jutta and Christian Bollmann

Opening and Closing Ceremonies

The opening and closing ceremonies
will be led by Christian Bollmann and Jutta Reichardt

Master Mantak Chia

The Nine Supreme Inner Alchemy Formulas of Grand Master One Cloud: The Way of the Tao and Basis of the Universal Tao System

 Tao gives rise to one, One gives rise to two,
Two gives rise to three,
Three gives rise to all things.
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 1

In his keynote address to the Congress, Master Chia will discuss the basis of the Universal Tao system according to his Master, One Cloud. 

In Taoist tradition, it is said that the Three which gives rise to all things, alrady initiates the "Return to the Source", that, the Reunion with the Tao. 

The Three manifests as the Cosmic Force, 
which permeates the Universe as the presence 
of Universal Love and makes Yin and Yang 
stick together, creating Heaven and Earth, 
the Five Elements, the Human Being and 
all else that exists in the world.  
Answering the call of Universal Love, 
One Cloud's Supreme Inner Alchemy Formulas 
lead us step by step, on our way back into the Tao, 
achieving the Alchemical Marriages of Heaven and Earth, 
the Five Elements, Fire and Water, 
Spirit and Matter, Inner and Outer,
Time and Eternity, finally to attain to the Ninth Formula, 
which is called "The Reunion of Human and Tao" and
unifies the other 8 Formulas into One Supreme Alchemy Formula.

Presented by Karin Sorvik and Jamee Culbertson

Premier Documentary Screening:

"How it All Began, Origins of the Universal Healing Tao System”

Come to the premier of this unique documentary film!

At a time in history when Yoga was practiced in basements and Martial Arts found only in the movies, Taoist Internal Alchemy was not accessible to the western world.  This was the time Master Mantak Chia came to America with a dream to share Taoist Wisdom.  

Early seekers of the Tao found him in a small office in Chinatown, New York City and the Healing Tao system was born and became the bridge between East and West.  We traveled the world to interview Master Chia and those early seekers who reveal “How it All Began.”

Click to watch the documentary trailer

Karin Bio

Jamee Bio

with Christian Bollman and Jutta Reichardt

The Tao of Sounds

In a taoistic, natural and simple way Christian Bollmann and his partner Jutta Reichardt invite you to experience your breath and voice as an intimate instrument enhancing energy flow, inner balance, clarity, stillness and self healing.

While holding a continuous tone we open to the inner realms of contemplative listening and let the inherent scale of harmonic tones unfold naturally by shifting through the vocals.

In this way overtone melodies unfold over our fundamental as a vivid expression of the harmonic laws of life itself. Entering this world of healing sounds is an exciting enrichment and can complement the Universal Healing Tao.

Christian Bio

Jutta Bio

with Maggie Cowan-Hughes

Tango from the Heart 

Those who know tango know there’s more to it than high heels and being sultry and there’s vastly more than meets the eye in the close-up ‘authentic’ tango danced at home in Argentina.  It is meditation in other clothes: we find there’s tao in the tango and tango in the tao. 

To be able to be direct and yet still able to listen; to receive and yet maintain your structure, your integrity.  In the three minute charm of the tango song, the yin/yang wheel turns.   For beginners, the left-footed, and the arrhythmic – Tango from the Heart will be an unforgettable introduction to this magical dance; for all - an opportunity to open your heart and expand love energy in the world.¡Nada más!

Maggie Bio

with Daria Fain

The Perineum: An Anechoic Darkroom On Wall Street

After experiencing the Darkroom with Master Chia and researching with poet-architect Robert Kocik on other darkroom and sensory deprivation practices, Faïn and Kocik envisioned a darkroom that would occupy a symbolic location at the base of the spine of a building. As part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program in New York City, in February of 2008 they installed the Anechoic Darkroom in the basement vault of 14 Wall Street, a building that was once financial tycoon J.P. Morgan’s residence. 

During the course of this installation, visitors could reserve the darkroom for a period anywhere between half an hour and 24 hours in length. Fain and Kocik built an arched structure made out of wood, cotton, wool, and metal, roughly 9 feet square in size. It served as a place for the participant to sit or lie down according to their feeling. As with the darkrooms of all traditions, the broad purpose of the Anechoic Darkroom was to stimulate reflection, meditation, or epiphany.

Experience a fifteen-minute performance based on this collaborative work of Daria Fain and Robert Kocik.  Daria will explain the development of their collaborative research and how Master Chia's system is integrated in their artistic process including its health and artistic benefit for professional performers, poets and lay people. A ten-minute video of the performance will also be presented followed by Q and A.

Daria Bio

with Renu Li

Door into Life - A Multi-Media Presentation

Healing and moving pictures promote a natural, healthy, loving, and nurturing sexuality, without violence and abuse. There is a lot of insecurity and myth about how a Vulva or a Vagina should look. This is why Renu started taking pictures of vulvas. The photo session is already a deep and healing experience.

Most women never dare to even look at themselves. Seeing the pictures and the relation to all kinds of objects in nature, like trees, flowers, stones and more will change your perspective.  If we can look at a vulva the same way we would admire a beautiful flower a transformation happens. This is one step toward a more healthy, sensual and conscious sexuality. Well, have a look…

Renu Bio

Dena Saxer

27 Years Teaching and Living Tao: A Senior Instructor's Blessings, Blunders, Lessons, Miraculous Gifts and Hilarious Surprises

BLESSINGS: Healing painful emotions and Osteoporosis with UHT.  The bigger O.  Writing 3 books with Master Chia.  Disciplined, grateful students. UHT buddies.

MIRACULOUS GIFTS: Inner power. Clairaudience. Manifesting my house & car.

BLUNDERS:  Running from power: giving it over to a Shaman.  Arrogance about power, and the penalty.  Fearing poverty and loneliness.

LESSONS: Tao is the Source of my supply. Strict rules about students doing practices before progressing. Accepting the deaths of my mother & 3 friends. Gratitude. TE, the greatest O.               

HILARIOUS SURPRISES: surprise!
We’ll end with my rap “Those Nasty Emotions!” and a healing visualization.

Dena Bio

with Gilles Marin

The First Formula of the Fusion of the Five Elements Meditation:The Pa-qua and the Exploration of the Space-Time Continuum

In this class you will be directed into an exploration of your inner space-time to help you connect with specific events of your life, or of your ancestry, which marked turning points in your health.  The connection to these events while practicing the Fusion, or applying the Formula during CNT treatments has a deep and wide reaching healing effect.

Gilles Bio

with Jampa Stewart

The Microcosmic Orbit: Innovations and Discoveries, Polishing the Basics

As the doorway to the entire Universal Healing Tao system, the Microcosmic Orbit Meditation encompasses the foundations for the entire path of Taoist inner alchemy, chi kung, martial arts and healing.  Advanced practices rely on a continuous polishing, deepening, and perfection of the basic skills and principles.

Jampa Mackenzie Stewart will present an in-depth exploration of the Lower Dan Tian from the Taoist, Zen and Tibetan Tantric Buddhist practice traditions; alternate pathways for Microcosmic Orbit circulation; perspectives of the inner meaning of energy meditation as a practice for true spiritual awakening and returning to the Source – Wu Chi.

Jampa Bio

with Ely Britto

The Importance of the Southern Cross in Taoist Inner Alchemy

The Southern Cross influences the Southern Hemisphere as the Big Dipper does the Northern Hemisphere. The ancient name of the Southern Cross was THAU, or TAO in modern word. The letter (T Th-oo ) is from the Hebrew alphabet. Cosmic Energy has been spreading to all the world coming from the Southern Cross.

This powerful energy can be absorbed in Kan and Li practices.
For the ancient Maya, the symbol of the cross represents both the constellation of the Southern Cross and the "Sacred Tree", its four branches analogous to the four elements and the four cardinals points.

This seminar will explain how to use this powerful energy to heal yourself and our blue Planet, and talk about its ancient secret history.

Ely Bio

Minke de Vos

The Tao of Heart

In this workshop we will delve into the heart of our being, the wellspring of love, compassion and truth. We will practice Heart Chi Kung, Tao Yoga and Inner Alchemy Meditation to dynamically balance fire and water. Enhance your total wellness with tools to release stress, re-charge your batteries, and improve circulation, blood pressure, fitness and energy level.

Heal and transform negative patterns that disturb your heart. Learn ways to keep our hearts open as we ride the waves of change. Explore our limitless capacity for peace, happiness and bliss. Connecting our consciousness and love with our sexual energy we can create a new reality and spread healing chi into the world.

Minke will share the trailer of her documentary, “Heart of a Dancer”, about her healing journey and the power of the Inner Smile, starring Master Chia, followed by Q & A.   

Minke bio

with Christine Giles

5 Element Chinese Astrology -
A Great Working Tool for Instructors

In a translating role, Christine regularly assists Master Chia with individual astrology readings.  The readings have proven remarkable, life-changing and a great inspiration for many. 

Here, Christine presents a ‘how-to’ of the recent, free astro calculation on the universal-tao website.  It is accessible, very simplified and gives information on the 5-element make-up of the individual.

You’ll discover a highly practical way of applying this as a teaching aid. The 5 element tie-in to the practices can give significant results in health and also help productivity, wealth, and personal relationships, plus insights into Inner Alchemy Feng Shui.  Non-astrologers are more than welcome.

Christine Bio

with Shashi Solluna

The Tao of Nutrition

In this talk Shashi will introduce the basic principles of Five Element Nutrition. She will introduce the Five Elements in the form of a medicine wheel, or map, based on nature. This gives a very solid foundation for understanding energy flow between organs and meridians. It can be extremely helpful in diagnostics of chi blockages, and can be used to work out how to remedy such blocks.

One will gain an understanding of how different foods move through different organs and produce different effects on the energy flow. One will also gain understanding on how to be intuitive with food energetics, as well as how to read the energy of the person to gain deeper understanding. In Taoist Nutrition, it is not just what you eat, but how you eat and what your relationship with food is like.

This class will be very complimentary for anyone who practices Chi Nei Tsang, as it can give greater insight into diagnosis. It will also enable chi nei tsang practitioners to offer some nutritional advice to assist their clients in the healing process.

Shashi Bio

with Ely Britto

The Yi Jing (I Ching) and Inner Alchemy

The Book of Change is a way to understand how life is regulated by the alternation of Yin and Yang Energy.  Ely will explain how the knowledge of and consultations with the Yi Jing can be understood by Inner Alchemy  practitioners.

You will learn about the Yi Jing and the cultivation of the 4 great virtues (wisdom, love, justice and correct attitudes expressed in the Hexagram´s Judgment), a strategy to return to the Tao (post-heaven to pre-heaven in the Yi Jing);  the 5 phases of the 5 elements forming the inner structure of the Yi Jing; and how to find the Inner Alchemical  path hidden in the context of several hexagrams.

Ely Bio

with Gilles Marin

The Use of the Universal Healing Tao System in
Chi Nei Tsang

A two hours lecture on the direct application of the Healing Tao techniques while providing a Chi Nei Tsang treatment and how to progressively teach the Universal Healing Tao program to Chi Nei Tsang clients.  The understanding of the teachings in this class will allow UHT practitioners to understand better the underlying principles which make healing happen and CNT practitioners how to attract clients and efficiently enhance their practice.

Gilles Bio

with Shanti Dechen

Chi Nei Tsang Innovations for Treating 21st Century Syndromes

An innovative trend in Oriental Medicine is using essential oils, the most concentrated form of herbal medicine in the world.  Notable practitioners such as Taoist herbalist Jeffrey Yuen have classified many essential oils based on principles of traditional Chinese herbology, and apply these therapeutically to acupuncture points, meridians, and organ reflex points with great healing results. 

Drawing from years of experience practicing Chi Nei Tsang and clinical aromatherapy, Shanti Dechen has formulated powerful Five Element essential oil blends, and shares how to integrate these into your Chi Nei Tsang practice, with special emphasis on treating stress, adrenal fatigue, and menopause.

Shanti Bio

with Shanti Dechen

Energetic Alchemy of Chi Nei Tsang with Shanti Dechen

Create energetic balance with the sacred self. This Chi Nei Tsang master alchemy formula creates phenomenal clinical results. Rebalancing and integrating all the energetic bodies (physical, etheric, mental, emotional, and astral). Presentation will include detailed clinical assessment, observation and integrating the other Universal Healing Tao energetic techniques. Hands on demonstration will be included.

Shanti Bio

with Harald Xander

Chi Nei Tsang and the Coaching Process

My workshop is dealing with a basic question: How Chi Nei Tsang practitioners can benefit from experiences of professional coaching? I want to follow the map Gilles is suggesting when he states “There is no healing without confusion”. How can we share confusion with our CNT partners without getting confused by our own?

Easiness is a good point to start with. Easiness can be taken as the Yin side of the metal element. So it is very near to emotional intelligence and feeling.

I would like to provide the participants with some insights and exercises which can promote easiness in healing processes. Some of them originate from theatre training others are basic verbal and non-verbal coaching tools.

In order to strengthen the metal element I will include breathing exercises and experiments with touching and being touched.

Harald Bio

with Saumya Comer

Karsai Nei Tsang

Our genitals and reproductive organs are the wellspring of our life force energy. But all too often this special area of the body becomes burdened with physical and emotional stagnations. Karsai Nei Tsang, genital health massage, is an extraordinary tool for releasing these stagnations and restoring the natural self.

In this presentation Saumya will share her understanding of Karsai Nei Tsang, suggest ways of integrating genital massage into the CNT practice, teach how to provide a safe environment for letting go and give everyone a few tools to begin a personal practice of genital self massage.

Saumya Bio

with Wilbert Wils

Chi Nei Tsang and Trauma

Enrich your Chi Nei Tsang practice with the addition of simple techniques from two modalities that Wilbert has worked with extensively:

1) "Focusing" first formulated by Professor Gendlin, Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and leader in the field of subtle inner experience, and

2) "Somatic Experiencing" created by Dr. Peter Levine PhD, an expert on trauma.   

These techniques can enhance your CNT treatments by helping to guide your students into a deeper place  of communication with the feelings that arise in the body. In this seminar, Wilbert will offer insights and effective ways to give CNT while guiding clients into an experience of this 'felt sense'.  

Wilbert Bio

with Marie Favorito

Buddha Palm, Chi Emission

If you're inspired  by Chi Kung Healing,  Buddha Palm Chi Kung is essential. As a form, it presents an elegant set of slow Tai Chi-like movements of the arms and hands.

This practice uses major acupuncture points in your hands to activate, open and balance energy pathways throughout your body, harmonizing your internal energy.  Open Lao Gung (P-8) in your palms and activate many of the Extraordinary Channels. Tap into Heaven, Earth and Cosmic Chi and direct this life force for healing and creativity. Perfect your form and experience a few Chi Kung Healing Techniques.

Marie Bio

with Stephanie Wilger

Breast Health

Stephanie Wilger has been a participant in  a 15-year breast wellness study and found Chi Nei Tsang indispensable in keeping breast tissue healthy and clear of accumulation.  

She will guide you in simple self breast care with CNT to assess and gently work with your breast/chest tissue and the corresponding abdominal tissues so irregularities release. 

With continued CNT, the shape and texture of the breasts improve, stored emotions and pain depart, the qi of the twelve meridians that flow through the chest brightens, and the heart chakra opens.

Stephanie Bio

with Tiffiny Fyans

Chi Nei Tsang III

Tiffiny invites you to explore the techniques of Chi Nei Tsang III, soon to be published in her upcoming book with Master Chia, Chi Nei Ji Jian.

Chi Nei Ji Jian explores the distinct types of energy found both on the surface and in the deeper layers of the Tendono-Muscular Sinew Channels.  Through guided palpation, practitioners can locate the points where chi and blood have stagnated and gently release these blockages to open the passageways to promote a healthy movement of chi.

Utilizing techniques learned in Chi Nei Tsang I and II, participants will learn to move energy throughout the body by releasing and opening these passageways along the tendons, muscles, bones, and meridians of the body.  We will explore the anatomy of the Sinew Channels and ways to work with them to free the flow of chi.  This workshop will incorporate some of the teachings of the 2010 Chi Nei Tsang Convention, which is scheduled just prior to the Tao Congress.

Tiffiny Bio

with Lee Holden

How to Make a DVD

Have you ever dreamed of having your own DVD?  Learn how to create a high end production without big costs.  This workshop will focus on creativity, vision, production, and marketing.  Lee Holden has produced 10 condition specific Qi Gong DVDs that have aired nationwide on Public Television stations in the U.S.

Lee Bio

Jon Ashley Weston

Universal Tao Publications Presentation

Jon's presentation will cover the history of the Healing Tao Publications and will discuss the evolution of the publishing of the books from the years of self-publishing to the current publishing arrangement with Inner Traditions.  

Jon will discuss how the books are written based on the formulas established by Master Chia with co-authors, editors, and ghost writers as well as the Project Manager's role.  The Thai staff will be introduced and there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

Jon Bio

John Zielinski

Effective Use of Digital Media to Enhance Your Teaching

Instructors realize the great value and benefits of the Universal Tao system and are motivated to share and teach what they know.   In fact, many instructors would be teaching full time if they knew that they could make a living at teaching.  Oftentimes instructors do not understand the aspects of marketing and the potential benefits of an effective Internet strategy.  This talk overviews strategies and options in the world of Digital Media available to Instructors which will help them to promote themselves and develop a community of students. 
    
Features will be presented that will aide you in the creation of your own web presence.  Establishing yourself in the digital world will express itself in the physical world by new students showing up for your classes and by the formation of your student community.

John Bio

with Doug Hilton

The Universal Healing Tao and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) – An Integrated Powerful Way To Heal

EMDR is currently being used worldwide to help people let go of unresolved emotional pain from their past experiences. In this seminar I will provide a description of EMDR and then describe how Master Chia has helped to shed light on how it works, how it can work even better, and how it can be done on your own. 

The evolution of how the procedure has changed over time as Master Chia and I have used The Universal Healing Tao to simplify and enhance the process will be outlined. Ways in which specific Universal Healing Tao practices can be modified to include this type of emotional release will be explained.

Doug Bio

with Judith Poole

A Taste of Complementary Energetic Approaches

This mini transformational retreat provides an opportunity to integrate your Tao Congress experiences, employing material developed by front line innovators in energy psychology and energy medicine.

With a focus on testing, balancing and shifting energy, the group’s collective chi determines content. Reclaim energy locked up in DNA, personal and ancestral traumas, and a universal self-protective strategy of blocking access to emotions. Increased awareness of energetic habits allows us to liberate more chi, making increased vitality available to apply to the Universal Tao practices that Master Chia has so generously made available to us.

Judith Bio

with Jutta Reichardt

Lotus Light Qi Gong

Jutta Reichardt will introduce her Lotus Light Qi Gong as an easy to learn sequence of healing movements, which refer to our bodies energy centres and go along with an uplifting message and affirmation, determined to focus the mind and intention besides the body work being performed.

The affirmations are simple and have evolved from over twenty years of experience with the Universal Tao Yoga and daily healing work as a holistic medical doctor and psychotherapist.

With the Vocal Breathing and her Morning and Evening Blessing she will lead through further balancing holistic meditations as a gift for daily life.

Jutta Bio

with Dr Linda Berry Bio

The Magic Three

Want to learn body/energy work that wowed Master Chia? In just 2 hours get easy-to-use treatment pearls refined from Eastern and Western traditions to add to your healing cart - effective immediately! 

The techniques you will learn work with “The Magic Three” - Body, Mind, and Spirit. Recognize the structure of your client and what that means in terms of tension and weakness. Use Taoist skills to link-in with their resonance.  And tap into their reptilian, emotional and conscious brain to transform distress into harmony and balance.

Here’s what Master Chia said when Dr. Berry worked on him using the same practices she’ll be sharing with you. "Your technique is so refined. Are you teaching this?"

Join Dr. Berry to gain the essence of what Master Chia was so excited about!

Dr Linda Berry Bio

with Michael Winn

Taoist Internal Alchemy Cultivation in the West

Taoist internal alchemy (neidangong) is perhaps China's most secretive art. It is secret within China, and doubly secret to foreign "barbarians" who historically would never be initiated into esoteric circles of alchemical knowledge.  

Pioneer Mantak Chia "broke" the code of secrecy beginning in 1980 when he began teaching these formulas to Western adepts.  He began a revolution in the West that is still reverberating back to China, where he has perforce inspired the Chinese to be less secretive. As a result of the Healing Tao (originally "Taoist Esoteric Yoga") teaching out these secrets, there are probably many more people in the West studying internal alchemy today than in China.  

Participants will gain a more clear understanding of this Way and its relationship to Western spiritual archetypes and schools of alchemy. Topics will include Jungian psychological alchemy, bodily vs. laboratory alchemy, role of alchemy in energetic healing, and Eastern vs. Western notions of immortality, resurrection and eternal life.

This seminar will highlight the fruits of my teaching higher level alchemy retreats in the West over the last 15 years.

Michael Winn Bio

with Lee Holden

The Magic of Qi Gong - Structure and Flow

Qi Gong is the art of effortless power.  Like a river moving down the mountain, Qi Gong requires both structure and flow to cultivate internal power.  This intensive will delve into the inner structure of Qi Gong as a path to moving meditation. You will learn five flowing movements for each element as well as 5 standing meditations.  

Lee Bio

with Raven Cohan

Tao Yin: Stretching Without Qvetching!

Experience Raven's alternate stretches. A great many exercises offer alignment in varied positions to move while 'rocking and rolling' rather than subtle isolations.  All moves are done while being conscious of chi moving through the Macrocosmic Orbit guided by Raven aloud and followed by you in your inner voice.  Most important, is training to notice stress, let it go and not orally or even unconsciously complain or "Qvetch" about it. All is done as we SMILE and internally LAUGH...

Raven Bio

with Marie Favorito

Chi Kung and Meditation: A Gateway to your True Nature

An Invitation to an experience designed to sharpen your skill in moving energy: Three Tan Tien Chi Kung, Ten Step Breathing, Buddhist Incense Chi Kung with an introduction to BaGua Chi Kung compliment and aid you in opening the Eight Extraordinary Channels.  

The BaGua Chi Kung awakens your tendon twisting power. Having opened the body and created the chi flow from the variety of movements, we will segue into sitting meditation.  You will be guided through the Microcosmic and Fusion Meditation practice guaranteed to bring you to a state of peaceful bliss.

Marie Bio

with Raven Cohan

Better Joints With The Magic Tai Chi Circle

The common yin/yang pattern of energy flow in the universe can help bring nourishment to any joint in the body.  It is far more powerful to use this pattern than simply rotating joints.

You will see a return to a much more flexible structure in a relatively short time. You will receive hand-outs so that you remember what you learned including a "100 day Self-Pledge to Practice". All Levels of Students are accommodated!

Raven Bio

with Rene Navarro

Buddhist and Taoist Chi Kung

Two Techniques from 2 Traditions: "Twin Dragons Chasing the Pearl" (Shaolin Angka) and "Play the Lute" (Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan) 

Although the Universal Tao practices are clearly from the Taoist lineage, other spiritual paths also developed movement traditions.  

During this seminar, we will share, compare and contrast two movements from 2 different traditions, one Buddhist, the other Taoist. The movements come from forms I learned from Sifu Lao Kim, the patriarch of Manila's Chinatown in the 60s and 70s and Sifu Gin Soon Chu in Boston, the second disciple of Grandmaster Yang Sau-Chaung of Hong Kong. We will practice footwork and movement patterns and inquire into the popular notion that Buddhist and Taoist martial arts are different and entirely opposed, i.e., the former is “external” and “hard” while the latter is “internal” and “soft".

Rene bio

with Walter Kellenberger

Tan Tien and Elixir Qi Gong

Elixir Chi Kung is the practice of using saliva as a major transformer for higher spiritual work. Your ability to transform saliva, the “Fountain of Youth” into a Golden Elixir is a major factor in healing and revitalizing yourself. This practice has the power to heal many diseases and raises your internal energy and strength. Come and see -- Elixir Chi Kung will soon become one of your favorite practices!

Tan Tien Chi Kung is the basis of your stability - your physical/mental/spiritual balance. Practicing it is a must for a Universal Healing Tao Practitioner since it is an important form for all basic training of the Universal Tao System.   It improves Iron Shirt Chi Kung, Tai Chi Chi Kung, the flow of energy in the Microcosmic Orbit as well as Healing Love giving you a stronger ability to cultivate and condense Chi in the Tan Tien. Raise the pressure in your Tan Tien and create more space for Chi cultivation and storage to enhance your health and happiness.

Walter Bio

with Sharon Smith

Tai Chi Clinic

As we all know, Tai Chi is not something one learns and masters in a 6-week class or a one week retreat.  It is a life-long discipline that takes diligent practice (and patience!) to master the movements and the structure that energizes the chi flow and creates the harmony and balance expressed by the yin/yang symbol.  

If your Tai Chi needs some loving attention,  come to the Tai Chi Clinic and get some help with your form. We will work on all of the important Tai Chi principles of rooting, alignment, relaxation, and yin/yang balance within the movement sequence.

Sharon Bio

with Jampa Stewart

The Inner Structure of Tai Chi: Tai Chi Chi Kung I Revisited

Tai Chi Chi Kung is the dance of the Tao. Through our practice we discover a way for understanding and applying the Taoist core principles of Yin and Yang, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams within the experiential laboratory of our own body.

This simple form is the deepest and most profound of all moving Chi Kung styles.  It is a vessel that we can fill with the wisdom and skills from all the other systems that we have learned, condensed into one easy daily practice.  In this experiential presentation we’ll explore these meanings and apply our yi – intention to bring them into the flow of our movement and our life.

Jampa Bio

with Jamee Culbertson

The Posture of Consciousness

Combining Alexander Technique principles with Iron Shirt Chi Kung postures provides deep insight that allows for exploration into the unexpected moment.  Explore change within stillness while standing in relationship to the universe. 

Evolving consciousness is misunderstood as something one needs to 'do' in order to progress.  Yet, an awakened moment doesn't really involve 'doing' anything for it to occur.  Alexander Technique principles of non-interference teach us what we are ‘up to’ that could be hindering the quest for a conscious life. Learn to ‘get out of the way’ and take a conscious stand in your life!

Jamee Bio

with Sharon Smith

The Tao of Bone Health

The Universal Tao techniques are essential components in keeping your bones healthy and strong.  Diet alone won't do it.  Weight bearing exercise is helpful but limited.  But if you add the essential ingredients of bone hitting techniques and sexual energy work, you have a winning formula.  

With osteoporosis in my maternal lineage, I began to more seriously practice the bone hitting techniques combined with qigong on a vibration machine, and supplements after a bone density test in 2007. Since doing so,  year by year since 2007 my bone density has increased. In 2009, it increased by 7.5%!

This seminar will give you an easy routine to enliven, maintain and grow your bones, build electromagnetic conductivity, and increase density.  Don't forget to bring your wire hitter.

Sharon Bio

with Jutta Kellenberger

Sexuality in Taoism

In the Universal Healing Tao system we learn a practice to transform  sexual energy (ching chi) into life force (chi) and spiritual energy (shen). Ching is the energy produced by the ovaries and testicles and it is the basis for self healing and spiritual practice.

In the UHT system the word "sexual energy" refers to the energy produced in the sexual organs, it is not good or bad. Through the practice we learn to feel it and guide it up into our brain where all the hormone producing glands are. We practice in single cultivation first until we have mastered the practice and then cultivate in dual cultivation with a partner.

Jutta Bio

with Masahiro Ouchi

Mens' Healing Love

This workshop will focus on Healing Love Practice and Philosophy for men, to help experienced healing love practitioners deepen their practices and insights. Some new aspects of Healing Love will be introduced along with the opportunity to exchange experiences, questions and views. Masahiro believes these practices are not just for deepening our sexuality.

They deepen all aspects of life. They influence us physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually; they affect our communication and our social relationships. It is a very powerful practice and it needs to be deepen by personal insights.

Masahiro Bio

with Colin and Marina Dadasheva-Drown

The Tao of Couples and Family

Tao practices enhance our health and happiness and encourage us to go deeper in sexual intimacy and we like to share these experiences with other couples who have children or want children.

Marina’s Healing Love results opened doors to the White Tigress way. She brings these results to water births and into the families for a happy and healthy life. Mothers and fathers don’t lose energy at the time of birth. The parents’ healthy sexual energy contributes to the good health of the children. 

We will be showing some videos of water births and healthy practices for parents, newborns and children. 

Our presentation is strongly influenced by:

Our parenting using Universal Tao Healing Love and Chi Kung;

Our years of life as a couple;

Many years of working with couples in seminars and privately;

Work with autistic children;

Preparing couples for home water birth and delivering home water babies;

Colin and Marina Bio

with Renu Li

YinTao™ - For Women on the Way

Renu will share her personal experiences in practicing and teaching Healing Love to women of all ages.  She will inspire you to establish a goal and life purpose; to acknowledge the inner teacher that resides in your heart-center; and to connect you with the truth of your lunar nature.

With this affirmed, Renu will guide you to feel and integrate the TAO as part of your life instead of only practicing it.  Breast massage and egg exercises become a ritual of self love. Find new words to describe what you feel and see and establish a loving relationship toward your body and your sexual organs as you access your deep-rooted vitality and creativity.

Renu Bio

with Sol Sebastion

The Alchemy of Man™

Sol Sebastian presents a modern and insightful look at the sexual maturation process that must be embraced for a man to progress smoothly along the path of Taoist sexual cultivation and alchemy.  Many men, although becoming very familiar with Taoist solo-cultivation, are unfamiliar when it comes to dual cultivation and the radically different mindset needed to explore this realm.  He presents a model that takes a deeper look into the consciousness needed in order to embody the pure creative potency that lay within dynamic sexual relationships, allowing the true alchemy to occur without the interferences of an undeveloped male psyche.

Sol Bio

with Saida Desilets

The Psycho-Sexual Health of Women

Saida E. Désilets, Ph.D presents a simple, but in-depth look at her dissertation and the results of her pilot study The Impact of The Désilets Method on the Psycho-Sexual Health of Women and what this means to a Healing Love instructor.

Based upon current brain and hormonal research, Saida created a new, harmonious model for female sexual energy cultivation practices that follows the wisdom of Yin-Yang cycles. Along with her research, Saida brings a wealth and depth of embodied knowledge of the journey of Taoist sexual alchemy and sheds a light upon the obstacles and long-term effects of this practice.

Saida Bio

Chi Nei Tsang Forum

Master Chia, Gilles Marin, Stefanie Wilger, Tiffiny Fyans, Jutta Kellenberger

Meditation Forum

Jampa Stewart, Minke de Vos, Ely Britto, Michael Winn

Healing Forum

Master Chia, Gilles, Marin, Stephanie Wilger, Tiffiny Fyans, Karin Sorvik, Jutta Kellenberger

Movement Forum

Sharon Smith, Frank Ostoff, Walter Kellenberger, Marie Favorito

Women's Sexual Practices Forum

Renu Li, Saida Desilets, Minke De Vos, Marcia Kerwit

Men's Sexual Practice Forum

Master Chia, Lee Holden, Michael Winn, Sol Sebastian

Safe & Effective Practices Discussion

Moderated by Rene Navarro & Saida Desilets

Forum on Professional Integration and the Future of the Universal Healing Tao

Master Chia and the Representatives from the World Community of UT Teachers –Moderated by Sharon Smith

Daily schedule of Speakers

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Official Program Guide

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