Winter Retreat 2026 in Tao Garden : Awaken The Healing Light of the Tao
In-Depth Taoist practices
8 January - 3 February
Tao Garden classes with legendary Taoist Master Mantak Chia
About Winter Retreat Workshop
Escape the noise of everyday life and join us this winter at Tao Garden in Chiang Mai (Thailand) — a peaceful place to reconnect with your energy, surrounded by nature and guided by Grandmaster Mantak Chia.
From January 8 to February 3, the retreat unfolds in four unique weeks, each offering powerful Taoist tools to restore balance, clarity, and vitality.
Week 1: Inner Alchemy Foundations
Learn to awaken your healing energy through breath, movement, and meditation. Core practices like the Inner Smile and Microcosmic Orbit help you reconnect with your body and center.
Week 2: Taoist Sexual Alchemy
Explore the art of transforming sexual energy into life force. Through gentle practices, you’ll learn to restore vitality, balance emotions, and deepen inner connection.
Week 3: Fusion of the Five Elements
Discover how to turn negative emotions into strength and clarity. This week focuses on balancing your internal energy using Taoist emotional alchemy and Five Elements wisdom.
Week 4: Advanced Fusion Practices
Dive deeper into energetic purification and protection. You’ll work with the body’s inner channels to clear blocks, strengthen your aura, and connect with universal forces.
Whether you join for one week or the full retreat, this is your chance to slow down, recharge, and experience the power of Taoist wisdom — right at the source.
About Mantak Chia
Grandmaster Mantak Chia is the world’s foremost Taoist Master. He is 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. Students of Master Chia especially like the clarity of the explanations, the many repetitions of practice, and his slow pace.
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.
Practice with the Master in the Tao Garden
Tao Garden is a unique resort. The health spa therapies used at Tao Garden are a product of Master Chia’s healing practices accumulated over 45 years of teaching. Tucked away among banana groves, papaya trees, and organic rice fields, Tao Garden is the perfect place to get away from the city and other modern annoyance.
During the Retreat in Tao Garden, you will get:
- Powerful Taoist practices guided by Grandmaster Mantak Chia : breath work, meditation and energy cultivation
- 16 hours of workshops per week with Mantak Chia
- Accredited hours towards Instructor certification (26 h per week)
- Daily Morning Qigong, Review class and Introduction sessions with UHT Instructors
- The opportunity to ask Master Chia all your questions during a Q&A session
- Lifetime access to recordings of the workshop
- Early Birds Until 20 December
This Retreat is for you if you are:
A beginner looking to transform your health, vitality, emotions, and sexual energy under the guidance of a legendary Taoist teacher
Wishing to become an Associate or Certified Instructor (see certification steps below)
Program
Week 1 | 8-13 January | In-Depth Inner Alchemy Practices | Awakening Healing of the Tao | Beginner-friendly
Schedule
- - Thu 8 January, Tao Garden | Introduction
- - Fri 9 – Mon 12 January Workshops with Grandmaster Mantak Chia
- - Tue 13 January | Review class with Instructor
26 UHT Cerification Hours
Practices include Inner Smile Meditation, Six Healing Sounds Meditation, Microcosmic Orbit, Three Fires and Six Directions. These foundational practices will bring you back to your body wisdom and awaken your Qi (Life Force). You will learn how to activate the Three Fires (Tan Tiens) circulating the Qi as it passes through your body channels.
Week 2 | 15-20 January. Sexual Alchemy
Schedule
- - Thu 15 January | Introduction.
- - Fri 16 – Mon 19 January | Workshops with Grandmaster Mantak Chia
- - Tue 20 January | Review class with Instructor
26 UHT Cerification Hours
Sexual Alchemy (Healing Love): Learn how to cultivate, circulate and store sexual energy. Men learn how to control ejaculation, transform sexual energy into Qi (life force) and then transform it into spiritual force. Women will learn to control menstruation and transform the blood into Qi.
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.
Week 3 | 22-27 January. Fusion I
Schedule
- - Thu 22 January | introduction.
- - Fri 23 – Mon 26 January | Workshops with Grandmaster Mantak Chia
- - Tue 27 January | Review class with Instructor
26 UHT Cerification Hours
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.
You will learn how to read the Inner Alchemy Astrology personal charts and understand the wide range of energy patterns. It will also deepen their knowledge of the Five-elements and the Five-element cycles, which are essential for understanding Taoist practices.
We recommend a prior knowledge of the practices of Week 1 for participating in Fusion workshops.
Week 4 | 29 January - 3 February. Fusion II, III
Schedule
- - Thu 29 January | introduction.
- - Fri 30 January – Mon 2 February | Workshops with Grandmaster Mantak Chia
- - Tue 3 February| Review class with Instructor
26 UHT Cerification Hours
Fusion II and III the Good Virtue Energies forming a Compassion Pearl in the Creation Cycle using the organ colors. You will learn how to detoxify the organs and glands by opening up the Thrusting Channels and protecting yourself by forming psychic Belt Channels drawing in the Heavenly and Earthly forces.
Fusion II is an advanced level of Inner Alchemy that teaches how to bring the physical body into balance with the energy body and the positive energy to detoxify, nourish, and integrate the physical and the energy bodies with the forces of nature.
Fusion of the Five Elements II allows you to learn to move the “pearl of radiant energy” (created in Fusion l) through your internal organs, multiplying the natural virtues that reside there. With this vital energy, you can open the Thrusting Channel Routes, which run through the center of your body, linking the “energy centers”, and open the Belt Channels, which spiral around the whole body, strengthening the auric field and providing a form of psychic protection.
The Fusion III meditation opens the Greater Bridge and Regulator Channels, Spinal Cord, Head, and Heart, using cutting and drilling techniques to clean out any energy blockages. The student learns to protect the body from external energies by Sealing the Senses and Aura and receiving the higher frequencies of the Universal Force.
