Summer Retreat 2025 — Taoist Healing
Tao Garden Workshops with legendary Master Mantak Chia
Foundation Practices & Chi Nei Tsang
About Summer Retreat Workshops
Come and practice at Tao Garden in Chiang Mai (Thailand) and feel the energy of this unique place. You will learn from Grandmaster Mantak Chia face-to-face and you will feel the vibrant energy during his Energy Transmissions that will enhance your spiritual growth.
Workshops of Weeks 1-3 Retreat are Taoist Fundamentals – the internal work of Taoist practitioners called Inner Alchemy. You will learn how to awaken Healing Energy through the Tao practices: breath work, meditation and energy cultivation practices.
Weeks 4-7 consist of Taoist Healing techniques: Cosmic Healing and Chi Nei Tsang massage technique. It is a Taoist organ detox massage, with a focus on the abdominal area. It blends Chinese and Thai massage and meditation techniques, making it truly different from any other healing modality. This technique is very powerful, it guides our awareness to our major organs and with a special massage technique releases knots, tangles and tension. This treatment and its many protocols were uniquely developed by Master Mantak Chia.
About Summer Workshops in Tao Garden
Workshops of the Summer Retreat begin with Taoist Fundamentals — the internal practices known as Inner Alchemy. You will learn how to activate healing energy through breathwork, meditation, and gentle movement, building a strong foundation for vitality and emotional balance.
During Weeks 4–7, Master Chia will guide you through Cosmic Healing and Chi Nei Tsang — a deep abdominal massage that helps release toxins, tension, and emotional blockages stored in the organs. Developed by Master Chia, CNT is one of the most powerful and practical Taoist healing systems. This training is offered only once a year.
About Grandmaster Mantak Chia
Grandmaster Mantak Chia is the world’s foremost Taoist Master. He is a pioneer in sharing Taoist approach to sexuality for westerns and the only Qigong Master who received The Qigong Master of the Year Award twice. He is the author of 60 books and has 49 years of teaching experience — online and onsite.
The classes with Mantak Chia are unique, thanks to his ability to transmit energy to his students, online or in the classroom. Many students practicing with Master Chia not only witness the wisdom of primordial violet light during his Energy Transmissions but also begin their initial healing processes.
This Retreat is for you if you:
- Are looking to boost your energy levels, to reduce anxiety and to get rid of strong emotions (Weeks 1-3)
- Would like to master your sexual energy to give you more vitality and brain power (Weeks 1-3)
- Are a body-worker/ energy healer/ holistic therapist and would like to gain a professional qualification (Weeks 4-7). Learn more about certification steps: click here to see the requirements. NOTE: you can attend any workshop, certification is not mandatory.
What will you get?
- Powerful Taoist practices guided by Grandmaster Mantak Chia : breath work, meditation, massage techniques and energy cultivation
- Daily Morning+Evening Qigong and Review sessions with UHT Instructors
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Lifetime access to Recordings
If you can’t be online you have lifetime access to watch the full workshop again. -
Q&A session with Master
You may ask questions before the end of each session. And during the workshop a team of Senior Instructors will support you. -
Certification hours
You will get 5 hours per day towards Instructor certification. Learn more about becoming instructor: click here -
E-booklet made by Master Chia
With highlighted slides from his teaching. So you may concentrate on listening and practice more.
Program
Week 1 | 3-8 July | In Depth Inner Alchemy Practices + Energy Transmission| Beginner-friendly
- — Transform stress into vitality
- — Balance your emotions
- — Develop grounding and feel centered
You will learn foundational practices: Inner Smile, Six Healing Sounds, Microcosmic Orbit. It will bring you back to your body wisdom and awaken your Qi/life-force energy.
Inner Smile: Use the power of smiling to activate the relaxation response in the parasympathetic nervous system. Get rid of the negative emotion and rebalance the positive emotion.
Six Healing Sounds practice has a special sound for each of the organs, the special healing color, positive emotion and special position for each sound. These will help you to restore good health and will help with the connection to the primordial force.
Microcosmic Orbit: Opening Qi flow in the energy pathways. It will help draw in more primordial force from the earth through the soles of the feet up to the spine and from the universe through the crown to combine in the lower Tan Tien (abdominal area), the heart and the brain.
Master Chia will do the Energy Transmission during this week. Many students practicing with Master Chia have witnessed the power of Violet Light and Primordial Sound and begun their initial healing.
Schedule:
Thu 3 July Evening introduction
Fri 4 – Mon 7 July Supreme Inner Alchemy I Basic
Tue 8 July Review class with instructor
Week 2 |10 - 15 July | In-Depth Sexual Alchemy, Healing Love
You will learn how to:
- — Recycle your sexual energy to increase health & longevity
- — Improve your quality of life and love-making
- — Become multi-orgasmic
Sexual energy provides an extremely powerful means for physical rejuvenation and accessing a higher spiritual energy. Master Chia unveils how to recycle your life-essence in order to increase longevity, improve your quality of life and love-making. More sexual energy will help to attract and multiply the primordial Qi.
Men learn how to control ejaculation and to transform the sexual energy into Qi and then transform it up to spirit force. Women learn how to control menstruation and transform the blood into Qi and likewise transform it up to spirit force.
The Single and Dual Cultivation practices in the Aroused & Unaroused State conserve and transform sexual energy while refreshing and rejuvenating the body’s vital functions. Ovarian and Testicle Breathing techniques, Scrotum and Ovarian Compression, Power Lock, Big Draw, and Valley Orgasm enhances sexual fulfillment and physical improvement as vital energy is exchanged with one’s partner with the indiscriminate loss of emotional and sexual energy.
We recommend a prior knowledge of the practices of Week 1 for participating in Week 2.
Schedule:
Thu 10 July evening introduction
Fri 11 – Mon 14 July In-Depth Sexual Alchemy
Tue 15 July Review class with instructor
Week 3 | 17-22 July | Fusion I
You will learn how to:
- Detect the negative emotional energies in your organs and counterbalance the negative emotions
- Link your sense organs with their “mother” organs
- Crystalize your emotional energy into a “pearl”, circulate this energy and attract more healing energy from high-frequency sources
Fusion means mixing and fusing things to create something new. In our Taoist practices, we combine emotions, natural forces, life forces, etc., into one energy we can use.
Fusion of the Five Elements 1 allows you to control the energy of your inner universe to facilitate the connection with the energy of the Grand Universe. You will learn how to capture negative emotions and merge them. You will then learn how to bring in all the positive emotions and combine everything to create a better energy balance.
We recommend a prior knowledge of the practices of Week 1 for participating in Week 3.
Schedule:
Thu 17 July evening introduction
Fri 18 – Mon 21 July Fusion I
Tue 22 July Review class with instructor
Week 4 | 24 - 29 July | Cosmic Healing I and Buddha Palm Qigong (Palm and Finger training)
You’ll learn how to:
- — Channel energy to heal the body - on yourself first and then learning how to heal others
- — Project Qi to detoxify and rejuvenate major organ systems
- — Root sick energy into the earth and disperse it into the Universe to be decomposed and recycled by the planets
Cosmic Healing I is a practice of channeling pure cosmic Qi for healing. The experience with healing energy can give you a feeling of energetic buoyancy, recharging you with pure Cosmic Qi.
Master Chia will teach how to channel energy for healing the body and through working with a partner, how to heal ourselves and others.
Buddha Palm Qigong consists of four sets of simple postures and movements for absorbing the life force energy of nature and the universe. By practicing this art, you can learn to take color-healing Qi from space into yourself or to direct it from the source straight to others for healing. Each of the four sections develops a different type of energy mastery.
Usually, when we touch the student, we pick up negative energy. Buddha Palm practice will teach you how to ground the negative energy to the earth and disperse it into the Universe to be decomposed and recycled by the planets.
We recommend a prior knowledge of the practices of Week 1 for participating in Week 4.
Schedule:
Thu 24 July evening introduction
Fri 25 – Mon 28 July Cosmic Healing and Buddha Palm Qigong (4 days)
Tue 29 July Review class with instructor
Week 5 | 31 July - 6 Aug | Chi Nei Tsang I Internal Organ Massage
You’ll learn how to:
- — Release and clear blockages, toxins, excessive heat and negative emotions deep within
- — Release long-held stress in the body for optimum vitality
- — Strengthen the immune system.
Chi Nei Tsang is a Taoist organ detox massage, with a focus on the abdominal area. It’s famous for its exceptional effectiveness and immediate benefits – one of the most powerful treatment modalities available.
It removes physical and emotional blockages to return body systems to healthy functioning. Each organ contains part of the primordial force. When an organ’s accumulated negative emotions and toxins are released, the organ can more effectively draw in the primordial force and regenerate itself. These can constrict the flow of Qi, resulting in physical ailments.
Schedule:
Thu 31 July Evening introduction
Fri 1 – Tue 5 Aug Chi Nei Tsang I (5 days)
Wed 6 Aug Practice class with instructor
Week 6 | 7 - 13 Aug | Chi Nei Tsang II Chasing the winds
You’ll learn how to:
- Chase the 10 winds, discharging them from the body
- Activate the acupressure points and pulse points
- Project good Qi into the vital organs and glands
Advance with Chi Nei Tsang 2 which makes great use of the elbow technique working mainly with the trapped winds of the body. This eliminates blockages of Qi in the body and improves lymphatic and blood flow. You will learn about the Twelve Winds, how to chase and discharge them from the body and how to inject good Qi back into the vital organs and glands.
Massage tools for this week are optional, you can purchase them here.
We recommend a prior knowledge of CNT I for this week.
Schedule:
Thu 7 Aug evening introduction
Fri 8 – Tue 12 Aug Chi Nei Tsang II (5 days)
Wed 13 Aug – Practice class with instructor
Week 7 | 14 - 17 Aug | Chi Nei Tsang III (Tok Sen)
Recommended knowledge of CNT I
You’ll learn how to:
- — Use mechanical and sound vibrations to work on fascial and muscular tissues
- — Open the body's meridian lines to facilitate the movement of Qi
CNT 3 Toksen is performed with the use of wooden tools that create resonance and vibration for healing. It is a muscle-tendon-meridian massage. Throughout the massage sections in this course you will use the hand techniques (finger presser, twisting & spiraling, hand scooping & wave techniques) used in Chi Nei Tsang I to open up and release the blockages in your body.
Schedule:
Thu 14 Aug evening introduction
Fri 15 – Sat 17 Aug Chi Nei Tsang III (Tok Sen), 3 days. No review class. Recommended knowledge of CNT I.
Tao Garden’s accommodations have been constructed along a canal bed of the Mae Kung Dam. Guests with rooms near the rear of the buildings have natural views of the canal landscape and beyond. There are two basic structures which provide housing for guests: the condominium and the townhouse. Each room is individually owned which reflects the owner’s unique decorating taste. All rooms have private baths. A bathtub is available upon request.
Developed by Master Chia, Chi Nei Tsang therapy (CNT) is a signature therapy of Tao Garden, and Tao Garden is distinctively the World Training Center for the CNT. Chi Nei Tsang is the Chinese term for an internal organ chi massage. Massage techniques are used directly over the navel and surrounding abdominal areas where stress, tension and negative emotions accumulate and congest.