Through the ancient Taoist practices you learn to heal body, mind and spirit. Sexual energy plays a major part in this healing process because if you do not use it in a proper way it can create frustration and health problems. Through the Inner Smile meditation you learn to love yourself. When you nurture the virtues qualities of love, gratefulness and thankfulness within yourself you can extend it out to others. The female practice helps to heal you by combining love and sexual energy. See short video for Ovarian Uterus Breathing and Jade Egg Exercise. And see Retreat Photos.

Female Healing Retreat by Jutta Kellenberger
March Sunday 7th - Saturday 13th 2010 at Tao Garden

The time tested Taoist female practices and meditations regulate the hormone production in the body, eliminating premenstrual symptoms such as feeling bloated, swelling of the breasts, mood swings etc. The practices also help women to release and transform deep seated negative feelings. It will also regulate the bleeding during menstruation and many women have reported that they got their menstruation back when practicing regularly after many months of not menstruating.

Women are connected to the heart and we learn a way to transform and balance our emotions. When our emotions are balanced we can nurture love in the heart. When we find our center within we feel more balanced and centered and this will develop our inner Beauty and outer Radiance. Only when we can love ourselves we can truly love others. That is strengthening our self-esteem. The practices are likewise beneficial for women before or after menopause. We learn to stimulate estrogen in our ovaries and draw it into our body and brain so that menopause is becoming a normal transition without side effects.

The practices taught in this week are the following:

Ovarian Breathing, Breast Massage and Orgasmic Upward Draw.
The treasure of the female sexual practices are healing and nourishing our body and mind. The uterus is the sexual center for a woman as such. Its potential is reaching much further than growing babies in it. If we want to unfold its power we have to connect with it and clean and heal it on all levels. click video Ovarian Uterus Breathing

Redirecting and circulating our generative force to higher centers of the body invigorates and rejuvenates all the vital functions and activates the higher forces. It is necessary for our spiritual development in the higher practices of the Taoist internal alchemy.

Egg Exercise: The use of a stone egg to strengthen the vagina is a practice which evolved in ancient China. Many who mastered the technique experienced very good health, remaining young and bountiful with sexual organs in old age as tight and resilient as those of a young, unmarried lady. The Egg Exercise and Vaginal Weight Lifting were implemented for improving more power to the Chi Muscle to lift the sexual energy inward and upward where it will be transformed into higher spiritual energy. click video Jade Egg Exercise

In the Cosmic Inner Smile meditation you learn to feel the sensation of a smile on your face and then moving that sensation throughout your body - "smiling" to all your internal organs, your spine and brain. The simple act of focusing on a smile this way calms the autonomic nervous system, revitalizing the internal organs by increasing the flow of blood and "chi" (life force energy).

The Cosmic 6 Healing Sounds are a basic relaxation and self-healing technique. These special sounds vibrate specific organs. The arm movements, combined with posture, guide heat and pressure out of the body and produce a cooling, balancing effect on the internal organs and the emotional energy that is stored there.

Opening the Microcosmic Orbit inside you is one of the corner stones of your Universal Tao practice. It enables you to circulate the Chi (life force) through your body and to expand outward to connect with the forces of Nature, the Universe and mother earth. You will learn to activate the three internal fires and open the three Tan Tiens.

Iron Shirt Chi Kung I: The strength and vitality of your internal organs are the real keys to the overall health of your body. Through certain standing postures, muscle locks and breathing techniques we learn to direct internal power to the organs, the twelve tendon channels and the connective tissues. By directing more energy into your internal organs you can perfect your body, increase performance, fight disease, and lay the groundwork for higher spiritual work.

PS: It is very recommended to attend the morning and evening sessions offered at the Thai Chi field and Lao Tzu meditation hall every day. contact: Juttak8@gmx.net

Fusion of the Five Elements, Tan Tien Chi Kung & Tao Yin Yoga
March Sunday 14th - Saturday 20th 2010 at Tao Garden

The energy meditation practice of the Fusion of the Five Elements is an intermediate practice between the General Basic practices and the Immortal Tao practice (Kan & Li). The prerequisite is the General Basic, Female Healing and Men to Men (Inner Smile meditation, Six Healing Sounds, Microcosmic Orbit, Healing Love and Iron Shirt Chi Kung I) training.

Negative emotions are transformed and blend with positive emotions and by using the eight forces of the Pakua to channel the universal forces and earth forces into the center and condense and fuse it all into a pearl, the essence of our life force energy. The pearl enhances the chi feeling in the microcosmic obit and is used to form an energy body to experience the connection to the source, Wu Chi and draws this energy down. In this process sexual energy is transformed into spiritual energy.

Tan Tien Chi Kung enhances our ability to feel, develop and store Chi or life force energy. Chi is stored in the lower Tan Tiento develop rooting and internal power.

In Tao Yin Yoga one performs specific movements to release tension in the lumbar vertebras, spinal cord and psoas muscle. It is part of an ancient system of spiritual development in movements and breathing techniques.

Female Healing Retreat
May Sunday 16th- Saturday 22nd 2010

The time tested Taoist female practices and meditations regulate the hormone production in the body, eliminating premenstrual symptoms such as feeling bloated, swelling of the breasts, mood swings etc. The practices also help women to release and transform deep seated negative feelings. It will also regulate the bleeding during menstruation and many women have reported that they got their menstruation back when practicing regularly after many months of not menstruating.

Women are connected to the heart and we learn a way to transform and balance our emotions. When our emotions are balanced we can nurture love in the heart. When we find our center within we feel more balanced and centered and this will develop our inner Beauty and outer Radiance. Only when we can love ourselves we can truly love others. That is strengthening our self-esteem. The practices are likewise beneficial for women before or after menopause. We learn to stimulate estrogen in our ovaries and draw it into our body and brain so that menopause is becoming a normal transition without side effects.

Chi Nei Tsang I - Abdominal Massage
May Sunday 23rd- Saturday 29th 2010 at Tao Garden

Chi Nei Tsang I is a Chinese term for an internal organ Chi massage which helps release stress and promotes healing by using techniques of massage directly over the navel and surrounding abdominal area where stress, tension and negative emotions accumulate and congest. In the West it was known as the second brain and the Taoist regard as the Tan Tien. If this area is knotted up, the whole energy of the body is blocked. When this occurs, all the vital energy functions strain slowly weakening the internal organs and decreasing energy.
Chi Nei Tsang massage quickly releases negative emotions, tensions and sicknesses, bringing comfort and relief to the abdomen and vital energy to the internal organs. Chi Nei Tsang is also effective in the treatment of digestive problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome and bloating and constipation. It eliminates toxins in the gastrointestinal tract and promotes lymphatic drainage.

Chi Nei Tsang II - Chasing the Winds
May Sunday 30st - June Saturday 5th 2010 at Tao Garden

Chi Nei Tsang II is one of the most profound therapeutic massage forms found in classical Chinese and Thai Medicine. Chi Nei Tsang practitioners assist those they work with in maintaining their health through tissue and organ massage and wind release techniques.
Negative and sick energy affect the physical body. The greater part of all disciplines of Chinese and Thai Medicine involves treatment for neutralizing the destructive power of these sick and destructive energies. If properly addressed, the destructive impact of these immaterial and invisible wind forces can be avoided and considerable harm prevented.
Another important part of the procedure is to teach students to sense and release the winds by themselves through healing exercises, meditations and self-massage techniques.

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