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Emerald “Love Poem for my Love Dragon” + Tiger Year 2022 Talk

Topic: TaoNews
Author: Michael Winn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Love Dragons” drawing by Emerald Winn


      Love Poem

          for my

Pink Love Dragon

     by Emerald Winn

Written at age 7.

He read it at Winter Solstice Dragon Ceremony 2021

           —————–

Hot mist rises from my

my Love Dragon’s nose.

It is pink, but doesn’t

smell like a rose.


Tired from loving me

all day long,

he rests his whiskers

on a pink cloud.

And snores out loud.


How I love my dragon!

He’s never angry with me.

With him inside my heart,

I feel calm and free.


Fire dragons are hot,

water dragons are cold.

Some dragons are young,

some dragons are old.


What makes MY dragon special?

His love is SO bold.


All dragons spiral

in a Yin-Yang dance.

When my dragon

twists and turns,

I begin to prance.


Love Dragon and I

soar high above.

His pink heart spews out

hot flames of love.


          ————


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Tao is the Heart of Love”

Emerald Winn Drawing,  inspired  by his poem.

It took Emerald 3 months to write his poem.

His Editor (Dad) offered grammar help and a few ideas, but final word choice was entirely Emerald’s.



           Special TAO Webinar

Next SATURDAY FEB. 5, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This “Chinese Zodiac dinner plate” was a gift to Emerald for his 8th birthday. I find myself eating off it….feels like it charges up the food!     (get on Amazon).


Year of Yang Water Tiger 2022

Cultivate Sexual & Creative Qi


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4oFZWhcIU


This 5 min. trailer is an overview of a seminar on the Yang Water Tiger Year 2022 – from multiple perspectives of Qi science.

I will teach practical Qigong methods you can use to capture the surge in sexual-creative Qi that is coming.

To REGISTER for the full 2-hour webinar on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, at 2 – 4 PM PST (5 – 7 PM EST). Sponsor: East-West Books, Mountain View, CA:


https://www.eastwestbooks.org/events/…


Chinese Astrology is part of Taoist Qi science which includes Tao Cosmology and Tao Inner Alchemy meditation (neidan gong).

Both of these involve processes that transform a person from within, in a mysterious yet impressive way.

This webinar is NOT technical astrology, NOT about making “predictions”. Rather it will give you conceptual and practical energetic skills to better navigate the present moment as it unfolds in the Yang Water Tiger Year 2022.

It will unfold differently for each person, depending on your constitution. This Yang Water Tiger Year is about the embodiment of water Qi, which involves willpower, deep feeling, wisdom-memory of the past, and the flow of sexual energy.

The Tiger is leaping wood (liver) element, which directs our sexual Qi into life projects, relationships, any area of growth WE choose.

FREE WILL rules our response to astrological cycles. The natural cycles influence but do not control us. I have found Chinese astrology very useful in identifying energtic issues that need Inner Smile, self-loving Qi cultivation.

I will demonstrate how you can integrate sexual, cultural, and spiritual Qi with a powerful CUSTOM Qigong practice you can easily do at home in a few minutes. There will be 30 minutes for Q&A and discussion at the end of the webinar.

Please register early to reserve your space!



Spring & Summer 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


       Live Tao Events

 (Live = In Person, mask-free, NOT “live online”)

Register for workshops:

info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net
OR call (864) 419-4502  

Zach, office manager.

All workshops and retreats are in Michael Winn home in Asheville, N.C.  Book Air BnB early, they sell out.

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1. March 5-6, 2022 (Sat/Sun)

Fusion of Five Elements 1:

Emotional Alchemy

Dissolve Negative Feelings & Cultivate Original Feeling of Self-Love

For more detail, or to order Home study:

 


2. March 19, 2022   Sat. 7:15 – 10 pm

Spring Equinox – Green Dragon of East Ceremony

& Crystal Bowl Sound Alchemy Concert

Wear item of GREEN clothing, bring a healthy refreshment.

Need RSVP:

info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net

Driving directions will be sent to you.

_________

3.  May 7-8, 2022: Sat/Sun

  Fusion of Five Elements 2 & 3: 

          Psychic & Soul Alchemy  

SEE: https://www.michaelwinn.qlogictechnologies.com/fusion2.html

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Summer 2022 Tao Retreats

https://www.HealingTaoRetreats.com

REGUSTERL
SummerSupport@earthlink.net
Zachary (864) 419-4502

 

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Zachary Fant,
Registrar

 

  • Weekly Tuition only $550. – an incredible value!
  • Discounts for multiple retreats, Jr/Sr., foreigner
  • Click each retreat to view details.
  • Plan to arrive Friday afternoon in Asheville, meet 7 pm Friday to start retreat. Eat dinner before class.
  • All retreats end at following Wednesday noon.

Week 1: June 17 – 22, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

1a. Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 1 – 4

+ Summer Solstice Ceremony

Best course for laying a foundation.  Flows smoothly into Weeks 2 and 3,

if you want to dive deep. Recommended you listen to homestudy package first, you’ll get more out of the live training (+get 50% rebate on homestudy).


 

Week 2: June 24-29, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

2a. Healing Love: Taoist Sexual Secrets

Pre-req Fundamentals 1&2


Week 3: July 1-5, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

3a. Inner Sexual Alchemy (Lesser Kan & Li)

Pre-req Fundamentals 1&2 + Fusions 1,  OR Fundamentals 1&2 + Healing Love Retreat


Week 4: July 8-13, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

4a. Sun-Moon-Earth Alchemy (Greater Kan & Li)

Heal Bloodline Ancestral Issues, Learn to Navigate Planetary Energy Body

Pre-req: Lesser Kan & Li (live retreat or homestudy audio)

 


 

Week 5: July 15-20, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

5a. Star Alchemy: Seal the 12 Body Spirits & Activate Causal Power of 12 Stellar Oversouls



Love the Original Breath Flowing from Source,

Michael Winn

“Who takes Heaven as his ancestor, Virtue as his home,
the Tao as his door, and who becomes change — is a
Sage.” — Chuang Tzu, Inner Chapters, 300 b.c.

“The Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.”
— Taoist Sage, 200 B.C

Michael Winn has decades of international teaching experience in Tao medical, martial, & spiritual arts. He was a founder and two-term President, National Qigong Association (NQA). He founded Healing Tao University, the largest Tao arts summer program in the West. Now in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.

• He is president of the non-profit Dao Alchemy Research Institute, was founder and 9 years Chairman of the Healing Tao Instructor’s Association, and co-founder of the Council of 9 of the Universal Healing Tao (abroad).

• He has taught on five continents and at Omega’s Super Qi Summits. He regularly speaks at international conferences of Taoist/Daoist scholars and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Daoist Studies.

• Winn has authored ten Tao home study video-audio courses, written dozens of articles, book chapters, and papers at conferences (see ARTICLES on his website). He is co-author or the actual writer of Mantak Chia’s first 7 books, including the classic Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy.

• His ebooks include Way of the Inner Smile, Five Animals Qigong, and Primordial Tai Chi and Tao Inner Alchemy: Way of Whole-Body Enlightened Self-Love (forthcoming in digital “Seven Bamboo Scrolls”.

• He is also on the boards of cutting edge green tech and cyber-security companies, and raises funding for  projects focused on human longevity and self-empowerment.

Winn lives in a simple log home in the mountains near Asheville, N.C. His 8-year old son gives him daily lessons in wu wei (Tao of spontaneous action) and occasionally beats me at chess. Winn has a private Tao therapy practice (live session or phone).

— Get Michael Winn’s FREE 130 page ebook Way of the Inner Smile, with 25 fabulous photos of the world’s most spiritual smiles:

Signup for FREE eBook – $20 value on my homepage:

 

Inner Smile free eBook with Signup to Newsletter

Way of the Inner Smile
130 page eBook + Loving the Tao of Now blog

 

What a 7-Year Old Taoist Asks for Xmas?

Topic: TaoNews
Author: Michael Winn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I asked my 7 year son Emerald what he wanted for Xmas, I already had a long list of toys he’d given to his mother. But which toys were more desirable – the robot that could dance,  or the saber-wand with flashing lights and noisy bleeps?

I was in for a shock. Without blinking, with no hesitation, he said.

“Daddy, I want FIVE things for Xmas”. He held  up 5 fingers:

1. “Dragon-headed staff, like your statue of Lao Tzu has. I’m writing a poem about dragons, so I need a dragon staff.

2. “Statue of Lao Tzu. You have 50 statues of Lao Tzu all over the house. I need MY own Lao Tzu to put in MY room.
3.”Picture of Lao Tzu. He is MY guardian, since you and Mommy invited him when you conceived me. I want the funny bump on his 3rd Eye and his face smiling at me, above my desk.
4. “Treasure chest with Yin-Yang and dragons on it. I need a place to store my special things.
5. “Walkie-Talkie set. After you buy the Emerald Forest and build the Temples of Heaven and Earth retreat center, we can talk to each other from anywhere! I need the kind that goes at least one mile.”

—————–

I sat there in stunned silence.

I thought of my childhood, with my exhausted parents, buying toys for seven children, and each of us looking with envy at what the others got.

Lots of parents complain about Christmas losing its spiritual magic, becoming too commercial.

I encourage Emerald to believe in Santa Claus. I feel it’s a good way to exercise his imagination, the single most valuable skill in life.

Emerald scoffs at older kids who tell him Santa Claus is not real, it’s just his parents. He feels special affinity with Rudolph’s red nose. In his Chinese astrology chart – which he discusses daily – he is a Fire Dog personality. Rudolph is clearly a Fire Deer. (I make sure he gets a present from Rudolph every year).

I had to explain to him that the  Lao Tzu presents he wants, Santa does not have at the North Pole. They could not even be found on the internet. That I led 21 China Dream Trips to collect them.

————

What to do? My only option is to start forking over my prized Lao Tzu collection. But he’s only 7 years old. After a few years of this, what will I have left?

Lao Tzu is the ONLY “thing” I collect. Everyone needs a vice. Maybe Emerald  is a stand-in for Lao Tzu – a guide on my path to wuji, to No-thing-ness?

Sigh,

The challenge and joy of parenting a child who has chosen his Tao path early in life.

Emerald is working hard on his Dragon poem, to be read at Winter Solstice Black Dragon Ceremony. We’re celebrating it on Dec. 18th, to coincide with the full moon. Double sun-moon power.

Don’t miss it! RSVP required – hit reply or email info.HealingTaoUSA@earthlink.net

His Love Dragon Poem will be published in a future newsletter.

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CRYSTAL BOWLS

At Winter Solstice I will also debut my new collection of TWELVE crystal bowls and other musical instruments in a Gong & Sound Alchemy Crystal Bowl Concert.

The bowls have gems and minerals alchemically infused into the clear crystal:  ruby, diamond, emerald, tanzanite, indium, Mt. Shasta serpentine, Sedona red rock, amethyst, charcoal+platinum, lapis lazuli, gold. A musical treasure trove that sings about the celestial beauty of life.

Qi unfolds in three phrases as it steps itself down into physical realm:

1) Qi is first felt as WARMTH circulating in our meridians and moving our blood and sexual

energy.

2) By combining movement Qigong with sitting Inner Alchemy meditation, the Qi may be seen

with inner vision as LIGHT.

3) As you progress through my version of One Cloud’s 9 Formulas, the Qi can be heard as

SOUND. This is caused by the friction between Heaven and Earth Qi, which creates the

Music of the Spheres.

I have decided to introduce crystal bowls into all my workshops to accelerate Tao adepts sensitivity to sound vibration. It will quicken their Way.


 


FALL 2021 Live Tao Events

 (Live = In Person, mask-free, NOT “live online”)

Register for workshops: info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net
OR call (864) 419-4502   Zach, office manager.

All workshops and retreats are in Michael Winn home in Asheville.



1. Dec. 11 – 12, 2021   Sat/Sun.  9 am – 6 pm.

Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 3 & 4 

• 3 Types of Taoist Breathing: Natural, Reverse, Counter-force Breathing

• Deep Earth Pulsing Qigong, Blissful Breathing Qigong for Lucid Living & Dreaming

• Bone Breathing & Rooting

• Healing Bloodline ancestral issues, inherited diseases and emotional patterns.

The heart of this workshop is about GROUNDING.

This is one of my most popular workshops, reflecting the widespread need for GROUNDING and EASE of BREATH.

This is the course where ten strong people cannot push me over from my horse stance.

Watch this video – my best summary of grounding methods, in 22 min. Physical grounding, emotioinal grounding, sexual energy grounding, spiritual grounding.

READ the Full Course Description and order download


Register by email: 

or (864) 419-4502 to speak with Zach, office manager

Still have space open for last minute signups.

 



3. Dec. 18, 2021.  Sat. 7:15 – 11 pm+

Winter Solstice Black Dragon & Full Moon Ceremony

 Gong Tone Bath + Crystal Bowl Sound Alchemy Concert + by Michael Winn

RSVP required:  info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net  or HIT REPLY.

This is a very popular event – please RSVP early.

Location: Michael Winn home in Asheville, N.C.


Tap  into the power of the Dark Winter Sun.

True Darkness is the power to birth the Light anew, from the depths of the dark cosmic womb, the eternal mystery of creation.

Arrive by 7:15 pm.

(20 minutes from downtown Asheville).

7:30 – 8:10   Crystal Bowl Sound Alchemy. Concert

(open only to those staying for at least one meditation).

8:20 – 8:50  Winter Solstice Black Dragon ceremony.

Wear BLACK or DARK BLUE CLOTHING –

Color creates resonance with Water Element & Black Dragon of the North

Arrive with a Clear Intent! 

What do you want to REBIRTH?

Prepare a short affirmation to focus your INTENT.

This  powerful  Ceremony is to rebirth our authentic personal self and highest destiny.

Two silent sitting meditations in total darkness .

Dive deep into the cycle of rebirth of the light that regulates our life. It is not necessary to stay for both sittings.

All are welcome to stay later to celebrate the True New Year.

The sitting times approximate (chairs available):

1st sitting: 9 pm – 10 pm:   

2nd sitting: 10:10 – 11:15 pm

Light refreshments afterwards. Bring something healthy & delicious.

Driving directions will be sent with confirmed reservation.

 



Register by email: 

or (864) 419-4502 to speak with Zach, office manager


Spring & Summer 2022

1. March 5-6, 2022 (Sat/Sun)

Fusion of Five Elements 1:

Emotional Alchemy

Dissolve Negative Feelings & Cultivate Original Feeling of Self-Love


2. March 19, 2022   Sat. 7:15 – 10 pm

Spring Equinox – Green Dragon of East Ceremony

& Crystal Bowl Sound Alchemy Concert

_________

3.  May 7-8, 2022: Sat/Sun

  Fusion of Five Elements 2 & 3: 

          Psychic & Soul Alchemy  

SEE: https://www.michaelwinn.qlogictechnologies.com/fusion2.html

____________________

Summer 2022 Tao Retreats

https://www.HealingTaoRetreats.com


Week 1: June 17 – 22, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

1a. Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 1- 4

+ Summer Solstice Ceremony


 

Week 2: June 24-29, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

2a. Healing Love: Taoist Sexual Secret


Week 3: July 1-5, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

3a. Inner Sexual Alchemy (Lesser Kan & Li):


Week 4: July 8-13, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

4a. Sun-Moon-Earth Alchemy (Greatest Kan & Li):


 

Week 5: July 15-20, 2022 (Fri-Wed)

5a. Star Alchemy: Seal the 12 Body Spirits & Activate Causal Power of 12 Stellar Overs



Love the Original Breath Flowing from Source,

Michael Winn

“Who takes Heaven as his ancestor, Virtue as his home,
the Tao as his door, and who becomes change — is a
Sage.” — Chuang Tzu, Inner Chapters

“The Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.”
— Taoist Sage, 200 B.C

Michael Winn has 40 years international teaching experience in Tao medical, martial, & spiritual arts. He was a founder and two-term President, National Qigong Association (NQA). He founded Healing Tao University, the largest Tao arts summer program in the West, in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.

• He is president of the non-profit Dao Alchemy Research Institute, was founder and 9 years Chairman of the Healing Tao Instructor’s Association, and co-founder of the Council of 9 of the Universal Healing Tao (abroad).

• He has taught on five continents and at Omega’s Super Qi Summits. He regularly speaks at international conferences of Taoist/Daoist scholars and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Daoist Studies.

• Winn has authored ten Tao home study video-audio courses, written dozens of articles, book chapters, and presented papers at conferences. He is co-author or the actual writer of Mantak Chia’s first 7 books, including the classic Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy.

• His ebooks include Way of the Inner Smile, Five Animals Qigong, and Primordial Tai Chi and Tao Inner Alchemy: Way of Whole-Body Enlightened Self-Love (forthcoming in digital “Seven Bamboo Scrolls”.

• He is also on the boards of cutting edge green tech and cyber-security companies, and raises funding for  projects focused on human longevity and self-empowerment.

Winn lives in a simple log home in the mountains near Asheville, N.C. His 7-year old son gives him daily lessons in wu wei (Tao of spontaneous action). Winn has a private Tao therapy practice (live session or phone).

— Get Michael Winn’s FREE 130 page ebook Way of the Inner Smile,

with 25 fabulous photos of the world’s most spiritual smiles:

Signup for FREE eBook – $20 value on my homepage:

 

Inner Smile free eBook with Signup to Newsletter

Way of the Inner Smile
130 page eBook + Loving the Tao of Now blog

———————

 

 

Primordial Tai Chi: Awaken Self-Love (book excerpt). 12 Unique Benefits

Topic: TaoNews
Author:



 

 

Michael Winn doing Primordial Tai Chi atop Golden Peak on Mt. Wudang in 2005, where this “spiritual tai chi” form was invented by Chang Sanfeng in the 13th century. This previously secret lineage form is also known as wuji gong, “Skill at Entering the Supreme Mystery”.

• See the list of its twelve amazing and unique benefits.

• Read the updated 45-page (15 pages are illustrations) Book Introduction on how a simple sacred movement form cultivates and captures Original Breath (Yuan Qi) into our Personal Energy Body. This is the energy of Pure Love flowing from Heart of the Cosmos into all Creation.


FALL 2021 Live Tao Events

 (Live = In Person, mask-free, NOT “live online”)

ALERT: Fundamental 3 & 4 workshop CHANGE DATE to Dec. 11-12.

Register for workshops: info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net
OR call (864) 419-4502   Zach, office manager.



1. Nov. 20 – 21, 2021, Sat/Sun. 9 am – 6 pm









Primordial Tai Chi:

Way of Whole-Body Enlightened Self-Love

by Michael Winn

• 800 year old LINEAGE Spiritual Tai Chi form of Master alchemist Chang Sanfeng of Wudang sacred Taoist Mountain.

• Workshop doubles as CERTIFICATION. If you are already practicing the form from video, you may apply. Healing Tao USA Teacher Certificate included in cost of course.

• Workshop climax: CRYSTAL BOWL SOUND ALCHEMY concert while class is doing Primordial Tai Chi.

• Includes FELDENKRAIS lying down exercises to support EFFORT-LESS  body super-learning.

GENERAL BENEFITS:

  • Super easy to learn & all ages, 8 to 80!

  • Quickly delivers an amazing feeling of energy

  • Awakens deep peace of true inner Self

  • Develops a more powerful spiritual presence

  • Great health benefits for heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, migraine, fatigue

  • Resolve emotional and spiritual crisis

This is the single most powerful and magical form I have found during many decades of practice and 21 trips to China.

 


Primordial Tai Chi rolls many unique features into one graceful “Super-Qi” form with:

              12 Unique Taoist Benefits

1. RITUAL INNER ALCHEMY MOVEMENT CEREMONY gathers Original Breath (Yuan Qi) from heart of cosmos, and concentrates it into an “energetic Pearl”. This grows over time inside our body’s core channel or spiritual heart.

NOTE: most tai chi – qigong forms harmonize Yin-Yang Qi, and are NOT designed to build up Yuan Qi from Source.

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2. FENG SHUI science is used to gather Qi from 4 cardinal directions into the 5th (center direction).

This empowers us to navigate our life from an axial neutral space with an internal “spiritual GPS system”.

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3. TAI CHI graceful, whole-body movements dissolve stress and build good health.

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4. MEDICAL QIGONG activates 8 Extraordinary Vessels for deep healing – they balance the 12 regular organ meridians.

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5. TAO COSMOLOGY is embedded within entire form. This links adept to Origin & most direct path of worldly and spiritual evolution.

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6. TAO NUMEROLOGY is built into design, adding cosmic power, For Taoists, Numbers are Beings expressing cosmic principles, not quantities.

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7. CHINESE CALENDAR CYCLES of 10 Heavenly Rays of Light & 12 Earthly Branches (12 Animals). Planetary and seasonal cycles are harmonized within adept’s Energy Body.

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8. DANCE THE I CHING. Activate your highest destiny. Tai Chi form mirrors 8 Trigrams (symbols of 8 Cosmic Breaths) with 8 movement cycles: 4 yin (earth) and 4 Yang (Heaven).

Form has 384 weight shifts, the exact number of changing lines of destiny in I Ching (64 hexagrams x 6 lines each = 384). We dance every possible destiny choice!

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9. SACRED GEOMETRY ritual embeds Vesica Piscis & Torus geometric shapes in our Personal Energy Body. This aligns us with Cosmic Energy Body.

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10. QUICKEN POWER OF INTENT TO MANIFEST. Form broadcasts intent to the entire Cosmos. There are countless stories of miraculous fast answers to prayers.

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11. SUPER-GROUNDING. Form is physically grounding (into earth below our feet) and spiritually grounding (into core of our Energy Body). This gives deep feeling of trust, emotional calmness and soul peace.

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12. TONING 7 SACRED VOWELS before, during, and after form helps us “spiritually digest” the powerful cosmic Qi. It’s a form of sound alchemy that raises our vibration and quickly centers us.

 


WHERE: Michael Winn’s home in Asheville, N.C.

COST: $195.

REVIEW price: $125. if taken in last 3 years. If going for Certification, pay full price.

Space is limited, please sign up ASAP

REGISTER:

info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net
OR call (864) 419-4502   Zach, office manager.

 


Cannot make the Live Training?

All Products as download or hard-shipped.

  1. Video ONLY Save $25! $19.95. (Reg. $45.)

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2. Primordial ADVANCED TRAINING Package: VIDEO + 2-day AUDIO

Reg: $145. Save $36! Package Price $109

3. Super Package (Advanced Training Pkg+ Joyce Super-Learning Audio

Reg. $225. SAVE  $86  Super Pkg Price only $139.



2. Dec. 11 – 12, 2021   Sat/Sun.  9 am – 6 pm

NOTE: WORKSHOP IS ONE WEEK LATER THAN ORIGINAL POST.

Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 3 & 4 

• 3 Types of Taoist Breathing: Natural, Reverse, Counter-force Breathing

• Deep Earth Pulsing Qigong,Blissful Breathing Qigong for Lucid Living & Dreaming

• Bone Breathing & Rooting

• Healing Bloodline ancestral issues

Full Course Description or to order download

 



3. Dec. 18, 2021.  Sat. 7:15 – 11 pm+

Winter Solstice Black Dragon & Full Moon Ceremony

Giant Gong Tone Bath + Crystal Bowl Sound Alchemy Concert.

RSVP required:  info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net  or HIT REPLY.

This is a very popular event – please RSVP early.



Register by email: 

or (864) 419-4502 to speak with Zach, office manager


 

Love the Original Breath Flowing from Source,

Michael Winn

“Who takes Heaven as his ancestor, Virtue as his home,
the Tao as his door, and who becomes change — is a
Sage.” — Chuang Tzu, Inner Chapters

“The Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.”
— Taoist Sage, 200 B.C

Michael Winn has 40 years international teaching experience in Tao medical, martial, & spiritual arts. He was a founder and two-term President, National Qigong Association (NQA). He founded Healing Tao University, the largest Tao arts summer program in the West, in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.

• He is president of the non-profit Dao Alchemy Research Institute, was founder and 9 years Chairman of the Healing Tao Instructor’s Association, and co-founder of the Council of 9 of the Universal Healing Tao (abroad).

• He has taught on five continents and at Omega’s Super Qi Summits. He regularly speaks at international conferences of Taoist/Daoist scholars and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Daoist Studies.

• Winn has authored ten Tao home study video-audio courses, written dozens of articles, book chapters, and presented papers at conferences. He is co-author or the actual writer of Mantak Chia’s first 7 books, including the classic Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy.

• His ebooks include Way of the Inner Smile, Five Animals Qigong, and Primordial Tai Chi and Tao Inner Alchemy: Way of Whole-Body Enlightened Self-Love (forthcoming in digital “Seven Bamboo Scrolls”.

• He is also on the boards of cutting edge green tech and cyber-security companies, and raises funding for  projects focused on human longevity and self-empowerment.

Winn lives in a simple log home in the mountains near Asheville, N.C. His 7-year old son gives him daily lessons in wu wei (Tao of spontaneous action). Winn has a private Tao therapy practice (live session or phone).

— Get Michael Winn’s FREE 130 page ebook Way of the Inner Smile,

with 25 fabulous photos of the world’s most spiritual smiles:

Signup for FREE eBook – $20 value on my homepage:

 

Inner Smile free eBook with Signup to Newsletter

Way of the Inner Smile
130 page eBook + Loving the Tao of Now blog

———————

 

Emerald’s Tao Poem + Super Charge Your Orbit

Topic: TaoNews
Author: Michael Winn

 



 

 

 

Poem recited live at White Dragon Fall Equinox Ceremony, Sept. 21, 2021:


The Beauty of Yin & Yang

by Emerald Winn, age 7


Day and night,

Black and white,

Yin and Yang are not a fright.

Under water, in the air,

Yin and Yang are every where.

Looking for Tao,

Deep below and high above,

My pink dragon heart shines its love.

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Emerald is working on a new poem about Love Dragons for Winter Solstice. Readers have suggested he write a children’s book. He’s thinking about it. Right now, he’s very busy running “super missions to block evil hackers from controlling  Earth”.

 

 

 

 

 


Fish circling is symbol of yin-yang spinning of Tao micro-cosmic orbit.

In the Orbit, Fire Qi (spine) and water Qi (chest) encircle neutral space of Yuan Qi (Original Breath) in our central channel. There are dozens of orbit methods; most ignore the third force in the center. On the sacred Taoist Mt. Wudang, a superior spiritual technology evolved: the Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Orbit.

As we age, water Qi sinks, fire Qi rises. This separation of Yin-Yang dissipates our Life Force, causing organ exhaustion and disease, leading to premature death.

The Red Dragon Orbit is super effective in capturing “long life Qi” – a harmonious mix of Yin-Yang-Yuan Qi – within a spinning pearl. The Pearl is purely energetic, but functions like a master cell in our body.

It orchestrates vibrant good health in our body by communicating to the nucleus of each of our 80 trillion human cells and to all our stem cells. It’s also the foundation of a spiritual vessel that survives our physical death.

The Taoist tradition of  Gold Elixir or Pearl (jindan) is discussed extensively in the inner alchemy (neidan, “inner elixir”) text Triplex Unity (2nd cen. CE). Modern teachers of neigong (quiet meditation, “inner skill”) will not know these methods, which go much deeper into the creative essence of wuji (Supreme Mystery) than emptiness-only teachings (similar to Chan Buddhism).

The leading scholar of this text, Fabrizio Pregadio, has an excellent translation (see GoldenElixir.com).

Below: SIX QUESTIONS about the Orbit are answered, and SEVEN TOP BENEFITS   of the Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Orbit  – why it is more effective than other methods.  It may be time to upgrade or refresh your Orbit practice!



FALL 2021 Live Tao Events

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1. Oct. 16 – 17,  2021

Asheville, N.C.  Sat/Sun. 9 am – 6 pm

Smiling Buddha






Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 1 & 2

Day 1: Inner Smile, Five Animals Qigong, Six Healing Sounds,

Day 2: Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Orbit + Open Qi Flow in Orbit qigong.

WHERE: Michael Winn home, in Blue Ridge Mtns.

COST: $144.  – based on Sacred Number 9,  not raised in 20 years!

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2. Nov. 20 – 21, 2021, Sat/Sun. 9 am – 6 pm

Primordial Tai Chi: Whole-Body Enlightened Self-Love

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3. Dec. 4 – 5, 2021   Sat/Sun.  9 am – 6 pm

Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 3 & 4 

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4. Dec. 18, 2021.  Sat. 7:15 – 11 pm+

Winter Solstice Black Dragon & Full Moon Ceremony

Gong Tone Bath + Crystal Bowl Sound Alchemy Concert.

RSVP required:  info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net



Dear Lovers of  Natural Dragon Qi Orbiting Our Energy Body,

The Micro-cosmic Orbit is the most famous Taoist method of Inner Alchemy meditation. It is foundational, the first of Taoist Hermit One Cloud’s Nine Alchemy Formulas. The Chinese call it “the Small Heavenly Round” (xiao hou tian). It has other names, like Embryonic Breathing, and Warm Current.

The orbit was first written about over 2000 years ago to describe a way of bringing sexual essence up the spine to recharge the brain. My speculation is that method spontaneously evolved to recharging the whole body.

I have been testing various versions of the Orbit since 1980. You don’t need to spend 40 years replicating my research. I found one method to be 100x superior to all other methods. It’s a formerly secret (oral transmission only) method, called the Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Orbit.


SIX ORBIT QUESTIONS

Question #1:

Why do we need a “new model” Micro-cosmic Orbit ?

Answer #1:

I wrote the first book in the West on the Orbit for Mantak Chia in 1983. His written English is poor; so he depends on others to write his books. He’s actually what they call a “book packager”. I used his oral methods and wrote the entire book, based on my own practice.

This 1983 book Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao started the revolution of Taoist inner alchemy unfolding in the West. It’s Orbit method became the standard orbit taught in the West. It took me a decade of teaching  to realize its defect. It was  like Henry Ford’s Model T buggy. It got you there much faster than walking or on a horse. But compared to modern day cars, the Model T is clunky, slow, and gets poor mileage.

The main problem with this “standard model Orbit” is that it uses breath, touch, and visualization to move our already-manifested energy, called Post-natal Qi. We use this same Qi to fuel our personality, which is run by our 12  meridians and organ spirits. Once our collective “driver” (called ego by Freud) shifts its attention away from the Orbit meditation to some other worldly activity, the Orbit suddenly “runs out of gas”.

The Orbit flow dissipates, because the Post-natal Qi of our personality requires constant “re-fueling”. So adepts are constantly having to “re-start” their Model T Orbit buggy to keep it flowing. I saw this in my own practice, and in my students. Everyone got benefits from it, sometimes very dramatic at first. But over time the effects diminished and the practice dried up.







1983 First Book on Orbit in English

Mantak begged me for years to write an “upgrade” to the 1983 orbit book, but I didn’t feel it was necessary. His motive was commercial –  to gain control over the rights. I was concerned that he would make the orbit too complicated. He’s born in the Year of the Monkey, so risks being too clever for his own good. I have the same problem – double Monkey influencing my artistic Year of the Rabbit.

Mantak agreed to give me total editorial control, so I edited a 1993 Awaken Healing Light of the Tao. I kept the Orbit method very simple in my final draft. But Mantak broke his promise and turned my simple 3-step instructions into 15-step procedures. He did hte same with Fusion of Five elements book. That’s why I stopped writing books for him.

Tao is about simplicity. I don’t recommend the “how-to” portions of this 1993 book. But the background information and illustrations are very good reference material. Just ignore the complicated instructions. In 1995 I decided I had to move beyond and explore the higher alchemy formulas, which Mantak, a teenager in high school at the time, did not learn from One Cloud. I dropped him as my spiritual teacher, but stayed friends. I raised the money for the first condo built at Tao Garden in Thailand.

 

 






1993 Orbit book

Reading the two “standard model” orbit books I wrote for Mantak in 1983 and 1993 is useful as background information, but not ri4 the best method of practice.

I learned the Spinning Pearl Orbit in 1998 by private transmission. That person does not teach it publicly. The Mt. Wudang tradition prohibits the Red Dragon Orbit being written. That’s why I only make it available as audio in my Qigong Fundamentals #2 home study course. This orbit revolutionized and super-charged my process of hacking into One Cloud’s higher inner alchemy formulas.

I reluctantly taught the Wudang Orbit to Mantak in 2011. His Monkey promptly made it more complicated –  spinning pearls in multiple directions from all three dantians, like a circus juggler.

The issue of simplicity is why I separated my teachings of One Cloud’s inner alchemy formulas from Mantak since 1995. It was a normal evolution that happens in many traditions. Kids grow up and find ways to improve on the life of their parents.

I am deeply grateful for Mantak’s tireless efforts to promote Taoist alchemy in the West. His greatest contribution was to spread One Cloud’s Inner Smile method.  He deserves pioneer status. I support his overall mission, even though I see few of his students advancing past the Post-natal Qi stage of self-cultivation.

Harmonizing POST-natal Yin-Yang Qi is an important and foundational step. Then one has to couple PRE-natal Yin-Yang Qi forces to begin crystallizing a pearl with a higher percentage of Yuan Qi. That is Lao Tzu’s path of “Return to Origin”. Origin (or “Source”) is not above your head in the sky. You gradually track Original Breath deep within the core of your body. Every being is a portal to the heart of the Cosmos.


Question #2: 

Are there other Orbit methods besides the “standard model Orbit” in the 1983 and 1993 books you wrote for Mantak Chia?


Answer #2:

There are many orbit methods. Some Taoists “sing” the orbit around the body. You can use qigong movement – I created a special form just to do this, and it is extremely effective in kick-starting the internal flow of Qi. Do the movements, then sit down and meditate immediately. Some martial artists claim standing for hours on end will activate the flow of Pre-natal Qi in the Orbit, but I have seen little evidence of this. For Westerners, the Qi that arises from standing does come from the earth (i..e. below your feet, beyond your personal body-mind).

But it mostly just goes up to the head, and does NOT descend downward to complete the orbit unless guided to do so. I’ve had a number of clients whose standing practice led to Qi getting stuck in their head, with insomnia resulting. It’s because the head is mostly where Westerners tend to live in this Information Age.

I’m certain it was different for Chinese farmers, who comprised the bulk of most traditional Taoists. They were not stuck in their head, they had a lifeii-long, natural deep connection to the earth. That is precisely why they developed so many body-centered practices.

For my Western students,  the Model T Orbit helped them, just as it helped heal many clients with “kundalini syndrome” of too much Qi in their head. So the Post-natal Qi flowing in the orbit is useful. But the Taoist ideal model of super-efficiency is to imitate Nature. That’s because Nature’s Qi flow never  gets tired, stays in Yin-Yang harmony with itself,  and never runs out of fuel. Over the eons, over many geologic ages, the seasons just keep on rolling by in eternal cycles with overall undisturbed equilibrium. Nature’s flow of Qi does not need Humans  to “push the river” to keep the seasonal Qi flowing. The Orbit should imitate this effortlessness.




Question #3:

What  fuels Nature, and its effortless flow of  POST-natal Qi into physical forms?


Answer #3:

PRE-natal Qi is the driver of POST-natal Qi. It’s also known as the subtle breath of Early Heaven. Everything we know as tangible Nature is birthed from it, and at death dissolves back into it. But it is not the ultimate destination (Origin). It is more like a formless mirror to Nature’s forms. All the patterns of Nature – Yin-Yang, Five Phases, 8 Cosmic Winds (trigrams) also exist in PRE-natal or Early Heaven.


Question #4: 

What is PRE-natal Qi, and where does  it come from?


Answer #4:

It is patterns of living energy, called “formless or subtle forms” stored in a vast dark ocean. The dimension holding this dark ocean is a “halfway heaven”, called Early Heaven. It mediates between Origin (Primordial Heaven) and physical plane (Later Heaven). These subtle forms of “dark light” flow into visible light shapes and colors which define the birth of all Post-natal forms we call Nature.

This ocean of Pre-natal Qi originates in an invisible, completely formless Primordial Heaven described by Lao Tzu as “The Mother of All Things”. Later it was called taiyi, lit. “Great Oneness”. Beyond (or within) taiyi is wuji, the Supreme Unknowable.

Chinese Buddhist-influenced academics often (wrongly, in my opinion) translate wuji as “emptiness”. If it is unknowable, we cannot know it is empty. A better Taoist translation would be “pure openness”. It is the cosmic womb  (in religious terms, Goddess-head) that births the One ,which births the Many.



Question #5: 

Will the Orbit hook me up to the cosmic fuel pump that delivers Pre-Natal Qi?

Answer #5:

No. The Orbit is only in-directly linked to Primordial or Source Yuan Qi. A spiritual technology upgrade is needed. You need the Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Orbit to first invoke the spinning force of Nature, seen dramatically in tornadoes and hurricanes. This natural spin was known to ancient Taoists as Dragon Qi.

There are dozens of different methods to move Qi in the Orbit that have been developed in the last 2000 years in China. I’ve tested many of them over the last 40 years, on myself and on my students.

The Spinning Pearl Orbit is the best foundation for those who deire to Return to Origin.  It moves a deeper frequency of Qi + Jing (subtle breath + blood/sexual essence), and doesn’t dissipate like the widely taught POST-natal Qi models of the Orbit. The “spin” eventually concentrates Post-natal Qi until it is condensed, like a collapsing neutron star, into a tiny pearl.

This pearl, aka. the Elixir, has a higher vibration and can easily flow into higher dimensions. When you do this method for a long time within your own body, it causes your entire personal Energy Body to gain fluidity and the ability to shift into the Pre-natal dimension or Early Heaven.

The Pearl is “sparked” or “combusted” in higher alchemy formulas to birth your Inner Sage. Thus the pearl ultimately becomes your higher body. Higher neidan training is needed to navigate higher realms. The goal is learn how to harness higher levels of causality. It’s a natural process of “spiritual growing up”, just as physical children gradually grow up.



Question #6:

What exactly is Dragon Qi? Are there real dragons?


Answer #6: 

Ignore Hollywood’s popularized dragons. These are the mythical archetype of Western dragons. These dragons have wings and swoop down from the sky, often representing dark forces. It’s part of the Western patriarchal “sky gods rule the earth” model, but with dark dragons hoarding gold under mountains. These are like Reptilian aliens seeking to control earth.

Chinese dragons occupy a different mythic space within the greater planetary psyche. They serve a nearly opposite cultural function. The Chinese dragon archetype, like Taoism, is matriarchal in origin and earth centered. Chinese dragons don’t have wings. They emerge twisting and spinning from the ocean at the spring equinox portal, circulate above for six months and then descend underground or undersea at Fall. Equinox.

When the spinning Dragon Qi is internalized through spiritual practice, it is a sign of Self-rulership over the external forces of Nature that shape human destiny and our personal body. Traditionally, there are five dragons, each a different color and arising in a different direction and season, representing control over the five elements or phases of Nature’s seasonal Qi flow.

While dragons abound in Chinese arts and literature, there are very few methods I’ve found for bridging the gap between one’s personal reality and the mythic or astral reality of dragons. I never really believed in dragons until I had the spontaneous experience of BECOMING a fire-breathing dragon.

By this I mean that my personal Energy Body (functional layers of the “soul”) morphed, in broad day light,  into a dragon. I had just finished a round of spinning movements of Taoist Bagua Zhang, a circle-walking form that invokes the Eight Pre-Natal Trigram arrangement of the I Ching (Book of Changes).

It was a shock, in a full waking state with eyes open, to see flames and steam billowing  from my mouth. I wasn’t sure how to get back into my human form, but eventually I did. After that, I never doubted the reality of Chinese dragons. But it’s taken me a while to evolve a reliable practice where I can invoke Dragon Qi. The Wudang Red Dragon Orbit I’ve evolved (over decades of practice) so that Dragons instantly arrive to work with me energetically to accomplish some spiritual task.



SEVEN TOP BENEFITS OF SPINNING PEARL ORBIT






OVER VIEW:

I have incorporated the Wudang Red DRagon Orbit into the Inner Alchemy Formulas of Wandering Taoist One Cloud. Over the past 40+ years I’ve evolved the formulas far beyond the seminal but limited transmission I received from Mantak Chia in the early 1980’s. This was a gradual process of expanding my personal Energy Body to embrace and merge, step by step, with the Cosmic Energy Body.

The Red Dragon  Spinning Pearl Orbit, and a variation I created, called the Pre-natal Torus Orbit, have made it much easier to manage Dragon Qi. as a natural part of connecting more deeply to Nature, starting with the Energy Body of Planet Earth.

I spent decades studying the many Orbit variations in China. I am confident my evolution of a version from the famous Taoist Wudang Mountain is the most powerful orbit method available. One reason I am so confident is because I’ve not only tested dozens of different orbit methods on myself, but also on thousands of Western students, and observed their positive response. I’m a spiritual scientist, and favor “what works now” over “what worked for someone else in the past” – a trap that lineage chasers sometimes make.

When you do a practice long enough, it reveals deeper secrets to you. Experimentation is at the very heart of the alchemical process. Inner Alchemy is just a way of describing our human power to speed up our evolution. Alchemy keep things simple by working directly with the 3 streams of the Life Force. Negative, positive, and  neutral; or yin, yang, and yuan Qi in Taoist language.

Two things are required to master this new orbit method: the mechanics of the method itself, and a transmission, which is essentially my guiding you to feel it. The transmission, which I give on the second day of my workshop on Medical and Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 1 & 2, involves inviting in a dragon spirit to inhabit and spin inside one’s personal elixir, or Inner Pearl. So you first need to know how to form that Pearl, and make it real. I reveal those methods as well.

But inviting a dragon spirit inside one’s body? Dragons in Western mythology are generally regarded as extremely dangerous creatures. Most Western adults make them “safe” by not believing dragons are real. That is partly because their childhood power of imagination was beaten out of them by adults concerned for their ability to conform to social norms.. The culture does that in order to make kids grow up into well-behaved social and economic robots.  Perversely, many in Western culture DO believe in the Devil, as it wants you to sell your soul in exchange for a few creature comforts.

Personally, I acknowledge that both dragons and demons have reality. But you won’t find them in the physical plane, by looking under a scientist’s microscope. They exist in the astral plane, the dream plane you fleetingly visit at night. If you want to deal with them consciously, you have to awaken your natural multi-dimensionality.









1. Everything in Our Universe is SPINNING

I know for myself that dragons are real; they just aren’t “physical”. Like most spiritual beings, they live in the astral planes, invisible to ordinary sight. But pretend for the moment that “dragon” is a metaphor for a “natural spinning force”. Even the most nerdy scientist can observe that the spinning force is the dominant power in this Cosmos.

Electrons and protons spin around neutrons. The earth spins on its axis. The planets spin around the sun, the sun spins around the zodiac, and the zodiac spins around some hidden super-galactic center, whose mega black hole spin is so powerful it swallows all gravity and light even as as it burps back out 100 trillion stars.

Electron microscope photo of egg & sperm. Photo fails to show the collective force of hundreds of sperm spinning the egg, readying it for implantation by the lucky sperm. There is a physically measurable burst of light emitted at the moment of fertilization.

Men and women spin around each other, in endless sexual play. When human sperm fertilize an egg, they must first gang up and get the giant (to them) egg spinning rapidly, so the incoming soul can “spin into matter”. So spin is the key to fertility (hint: if you’re having trouble getting pregnant, a spinning orbit may help).

Spinning is THE process necessary at the moment of conception, beyond all the egg-sperm chemistry. The vibratory spin of your soul is your signature, so Source can track you. “All the world’s a spinning theatre”, to paraphrase a famous bard.

But how many of us ever figure out where that spinning force comes from? Or why there has to be a still space of “no spin” in the center of it? If you did, you’d get the Nobel Prize for figuring out perpetual motion. Nature is not stupid; it spins for a good reason. Some meditators foolishly dream they can stop the spin, but Creation seems to keep on spinning despite their ambitions to achieve an Absolute Emptiness.

If you could capture the spinning force, you would have the greatest power in all Creation at your “psychic fingertips”. Hopefully you would apply this spiral power to spreading love, balance, and harmony.

For a lover of Tao, learning the Spinning Dragon Orbit simply means you are empowered to EFFORTLESSLY create deeper harmony and balance in your life. That’s my experience. You don’t need to effort with your everyday mind to cause the spin. The spinning Dragon force, once you get it going, is effortless, alive and intelligent. It naturally keeps spinning.

The Taoists call the deepest level of spin the True Qi, or Original Yin-Yang force. Its balanced spinning Qi silently overflows into your health, your relationships, your career. It deepens your spiritual path by internally grounding you. It guides your destiny like an internal spinning gyroscope.

The orbit supports your unique virtues and your soul’s natural loving presence to flow in graceful spirals out into your everyday life. It flows into your life via the 8 Extraordinary Vessels, which overflow into your 12 regular meridians.

Or consider the metaphor of a car. Once you get it started, it drives wherever you steer it, at whatever speed you choose. The difference between a car and the Orbit is that now you are driving the “car of your Energy Body”, and the fuel source, the Life Force, is free and infinite. Your rate of internal spin determines how much Qi you will draw in from the greater Qi field. You don’t need to pay for gas or new tires. The spinning Qi is a free gift from the Tao.

What could be more valuable than this? Do you treasure your personal Energy Body vehicle as much as you love your metal & plastic-molded automobile? Unfortunately, a lot of people treat their car better than they do their Energy Body.

But it’s never too late to wake up and enjoy a life of increased spiritual power.  Are you open to receiving assistance from powerful, harmonious spinning dragon spirits, and to effortlessly spin your Way to health and happiness?


2. Orbit Harmonizes Above and Below.

Tao Cosmology holds as one of its primary principles the correspondence between Micro-cosmos and Macro-cosmos. There is a famous alchemical maxim that sums this up nicely: As Above, So Below. The orbit links Heaven and Earth within our personal Energy Body.

This means that if we can get our Qi flowing in an orbit pattern locally – IN OUR micro-cosmic BODY – that we will be in harmony with the flow of Qi in the larger macro-cosmic BODY OF NATURE.

Our body and nature’s body are mirror images of each other, a balanced micro-macro cosmic relationship. But if we are energetically asleep the forces in our subconscious can act out in wild and disturbing ways.

The Fire Path Orbit flows from our navel down into the perineum, the Yin Gate of Earth. Then it flows up the spine to the crown of the head, the Yang Gate of Heaven. On its continuous pathway between these portals to Heaven and Earth, Qi flows through key points that nourish our Human life – our sexual center, navel, solar plexus, heart, threat, third eye/pineal gland.

The Water Path Orbit runs the opposite direction – up the chest, over the head, down the spine and back to the navel.

Both the Fire and Water paths embody a model of INCLUSIVE-NESS within a process of continuous CHANGE. That is a pretty good summary of the essence of following the path of Tao. Heaven and Earth do not struggle for control over the other; they mirror each other, and learn from each other.


3. Orbit Circulates Sexual Energy, Enhances Creativity.

Historically, scholars believe the orbit may have originated over 2000 years ago in a sexual practice  described in ancient texts. This method was to bring sexual essence from below to nourish and enliven the brain above. This Spinning Dragon Orbit method penetrates into the “jing” or substance level much more so than orbit methods that rely on breath or visualization only. The spinning pearl literally digs into deeper levels of our Energy Body, freeing trapped creativity.

If you do this method, at some point the “above” feels full and it spontaneousl overflows and intiates a downward flow. In Taoist alchemy, sexual energy is the secret alchemical agent that is needed to stimulate and raise our vibration to a higher level. This orbit version blends all the hormonal energies and concentrates our sexual essence and blood, making it possible to more quickly transform slower, more habitual organ pathways that can dominate our personality.


4. Orbit Balances 8 Extra-Ordinary Vessels to Control Deep Yin-Yang

The Orbit Meditation activates two primary deep channels in the body which help control the balance of yin and yang Qi flow. These two channels are part of the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, which is best understood as the SOUL CHANNELS that flow into the 12 BODY-MIND ORGAN CHANNELS.

The yang fire channel in the spine is known in Chinese medicine as the Governor Vessel, and the yin water channel up the center line of the torso & chest is called the Conception Vessel. Linking these two allow our personality to effortlessly shift from spirit into matter and back. The Spinning Pearl Dragon Orbit creates the ability to shift between Jing-Qi-Shen levels more quickly. Jing-Qi-Shen is the continuum of awareness from substance (Jing) to subtle breath t(Qi) o broad field of expanded awareness (aka spirit).

These “8 Extraordinary Vessels” control the yin-yang balance of the 12 meridians that regulate the 12 vital organs and bowels. So by opening and nourishing the flow in the orbit, we in effect leverage the harmony between the fire and water channels to influence simultaneously all 12 of the organ meridians that govern our health and personality. So instead of trying to “fix” things on the outer level, we balance the flow of yin-yang Qi from within, on a deeper level.







5. Unified Chakra Model: a Spinning Wheel

If you are into the yogic model, you know that “chakra” means “spinning wheel”.  The Spinning Dragon Orbit method creates a Unified Super-Chakra whose spin embraces and balances all the other chakras simultaneously.

I taught kundalini yoga for many years, and loved it. But I find that opening a single whole-body orbit is far more efficient than trying to “open” each individual chakra.

If you are a student of yoga, you might re-frame this to say that the Orbit is adjusting the flow of prana through all the chakras. So instead of trying to “open” a particular chakra, you are opening the faucet so the Qi (prana) pressure is increased and flows like an unstoppable river activating the spin of ALL the chakras.

The Orbit thus creates a Unified Chakra that integrates all the other chakras into a single dynamic spinning wheel of life.


6. Spiral Orbit Helps Concentrate Original Breath

Our deepest human instinct is to search for our Source. The orbit open the inner space in which we cultivate Yuan Qi (Original Breath). It offers a stable yin-yang egg-shaped vessel, where our inner embryo of our immortal soul can safely gestate.

A lot of students think that it’s enough to just balance out the flow of yin-yang Qi. This is generally the viewpoint of our personality, which is controlled by the tension between our left and right brain hemispheres.

Many have not yet awakened to the reality of a third kind of Qi that is NOT yin-yang polarized. It links us to our soul and over soul. It is known as Original Breath, or Yuan Qi. It is the energy of the Primordial Tao, the source of all creation’s many forms that we call Nature. The orbit flows around the center line of our body, exactly in between our left and right brains. In short, inner alchemy grows our CORE SELF.

Once we have balanced the yin-yang or fire/water Qi flowing around our micro-orbit, we can take the next step and begin to cultivate and grow our Yuan Qi in the core channel. This is called the chongmai, or Penetrating Vessel. This Qi flows in the center of our body, running from perineum to crown. It’s also known as the taiji pole, the spiraling axis between heaven and earth.

The outer path of the micro-orbit around our torso creates the shape of an egg. When we cultivate our Yuan Qi, it’s like we are nourishing the yolk of the egg deep inside us. That is what Taoists call the Immortal Embryo. When we shift from the outer orbit pathway to the core channel, we graduate to a deeper level of internal alchemy, the science of re-birthing our soul and making it tangible.


 

7. Spinning Pearls Orbits Forever, Once Set in Motion

I’ve integrated the Dragon Orbit into One Cloud’s system of water & fire internal alchemy. This spinning orbit kick starts the alchemy process into super-high frequencies and speeds up one’s progress. It is like graduating from “dial-up” to “broad band” internet – easier, faster, and more fun.

The spinning pearl functions like a fly-wheel. You get it going strongly, and its momentum keeps it spinning for a long time. You need to refresh it periodically, not so much to keep it going, but to get spinning at a deeper frequency within your Personal Energy Body. Each of us is on a path of peeling back layers to reveal our Original Self. It just auqestion of whether we do this quickly  using a spiritual technology, or slowly, wiating for life to deliver its next lesson to us.

Even if you’ve learned other versions of the orbit from other teachers, I encourage you to study this version live or by home study. Consider it a “spiritual technology upgrade” that will change the trajectory of your Qi cultivation path, which is Taoist “energy-talk” way of saying it will change your life on multiple levels.



ORBIT WORKSHOP DETAILS

Oct. 16 – 17, 2021: Asheville, N.C.  9 am-6 pm


Day 1: Inner Smile, Five Animals Qigong, Six Healing Sounds, Tao Cosmology & inner alchemy theory.

— We smile together silently, learning how to relax and shift from outer smiling personality into our “inner heart”. This soul (ling) space is pure, and able to love unconditionally. It allows us to embrace and heal deep stuck energy patterns.

— This is a simple self-cultivation practices you can easily apply to daily life. Increased peace, self-love, and acceptance of others are the reward, with secondary benefits of healing all kinds of illness that is stress-caused. The Inner Smile’s effectiveness arises from shifting Qi to the soul. Soul or inner witness is the gatekeeper between tangible Post-natal Qi and formless Pre-natal Qi.

— Learn the two oldest qigong forms recorded in Chinese history: the Six Healing Sounds and the Five Animals Play.

— Visit http://www.healingdao.com/ckf1.html#top (Fundamentals 1 page with full  benefits &  testimonials)


Day 2: Guided Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Orbit . HOW TO INVOKE Dragon Qi. Learn my custom qigong form: Open Qi Flow in the Orbit.

— The Orbit unifies all three dantian energy centers (or seven chakras in yogic tradition) into a flowing whole. No need to open each dantian or chakra. Process is made simple and physically tangible with qigong movements. My Qi transmission helps you open strong orbit Qi flow.

— I transmit the original Wudang Mtn. 3-phase training of the “Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Orbit”. It’s a powerful, formerly secret, lineage internal method (NOT taught abroad in Universal Healing Tao curriculum).

— The Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Orbit is the MOST POWERFUL & EFFECTIVE ORBIT METHOD I’VE FOUND – during my 41 years research. Included is my method to invoke spiraling Dragon power, concentrated within a Pearl. This super charges the orbit meditation to amplify its power and effortless Qi  flow.

— BENEFITS: Good for self healing, spiritual centering and balance of all yin-yang meridians of body, and balancing blood and Qi. The orbit is also the main pathway used for cultivating spiritualized sexual energy as you progress in your practice.

— Wudang Mtn. Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Orbit trains us to crystallize an Inner Pearl that, when combined with other inner alchemy methods — matures into our Inner Sage. Grow your own inner spiritual guide – it is the most reliable Way to navigate your Way (path).

— More info on Fundamentals 2 (Orbit): http://www.healingdao.com/ckf2.html


— These two days are packed with powerful practices that can make major shifts in your health and energy level. They are Lifetime Treasures, simple enough to easily share with family and friends.


— Workshop is open to everyone.

— This course is THE main pre-requisite to Fusion, Healing Love, Tai Chi, Kan & Li. This is the best course to begin with, but also suitable for advanced adepts or people from other traditions wishing to go deeper or investigate this system.


HOME STUDY ALTERNATIVE.

If you cannot attend a live course, consider importing these valuable practices into your home via download. It’s at a half-price introductory bargain, with one year money back guarantee on hard-shipped items:

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Register by email: 

or (864) 419-4502 to speak with Zach, office manager


 

Love the Qi Orbiting in your Energy Body!

Michael Winn

“Who takes Heaven as his ancestor, Virtue as his home,
the Tao as his door, and who becomes change — is a
Sage.” — Chuang Tzu, Inner Chapters

“The Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.”
— Taoist Sage, 200 B.C

Michael Winn has 40 years international teaching experience in Tao medical, martial, & spiritual arts. He was a founder and two-term President, National Qigong Association (NQA). He founded Healing Tao University, the largest Tao arts summer program in the West, in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.

• He is president of the non-profit Dao Alchemy Research Institute, was founder and 9 years Chairman of the Healing Tao Instructor’s Association, and co-founder of the Council of 9 of the Universal Healing Tao (abroad).

• He has taught on five continents and at Omega’s Super Qi Summits. He regularly speaks at international conferences of Taoist/Daoist scholars and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Daoist Studies.

• Winn has authored ten Tao home study video-audio courses, written dozens of articles, book chapters, and presented papers at conferences. He is co-author or the actual writer of Mantak Chia’s first 7 books, including the classic Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy.

• His ebooks include Way of the Inner Smile, Five Animals Qigong, and Primordial Tai Chi and Tao Inner Alchemy: Way of Whole-Body Enlightened Self-Love (forthcoming in digital “Seven Bamboo Scrolls”.

• He is also on the boards of cutting edge green tech and cyber-security companies, and raises funding for  projects focused on human longevity and self-empowerment.

Winn lives in a simple log home in the mountains near Asheville, N.C. His 7-year old son gives him daily lessons in wu wei (Tao of spontaneous action). Winn has a private Tao therapy practice (live session or phone).

— Get Michael Winn’s FREE 130 page ebook Way of the Inner Smile,

with 25 fabulous photos of the world’s most spiritual smiles:

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130 page eBook + Loving the Tao of Now blog

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Michael Winn Fall Events + NQA Conf. Sept. 17-19

Topic: TaoNews
Author: Michael Winn

 

The Way

Yang spirals out, Yin spirals in.

All returns to center, Yuan still Origin.

Rinse Good and Evil Qi

in the ocean of Pure Love.

Repeat.

Flow…Harmony…Peace.

 


September 2021 Virtual Event

 

 

 

 

 

 


September 17, 18, 19 – on zoom

1. National Qigong Association 25th Annual Conference

• 9 world class workshops + Q&A

• Recordings available for 60 days

• Conference fee tax deductible, well worth it – $50. discount if you join NQA.

• View 2 min. video by each  presenter. You can learn a lot just from these.

https://www.nqa.org/annual-conference

The NQA is a great umbrella promoting all Qi arts – this is YOUR TRIBE. I was its first VP in 1997, first 2-term President 1998-2000. I now serve on its Advisory Council.

WHAT:  Michael Winn presentation (final in conference):

How to Supercharge Your Qigong with A Pink Love Dragon and the Inner Smile.

WHEN:  Sept. 19, Sunday 2:30 – 3:45 pm (55 min. + 20 min.Q&A)

REGISTER online: https://www.nqa.org/annual-conference

 


FALL 2021 Live Tao Events

(Live = In Person, NOT “live online”)

FACT: I’ve taught 21 LIVE events during the Pandemic. No masks, no distancing. Not a single person has gotten sick. Viruses LACK ANY WILL They are neutral bits of information which Nature uses to self-adjust or detoxify itself. Germ theory tries to demonize Nature with its half-truth.

You must CHOOSE TO GET SICK using a virus as a trigger. Stop playing victim. Taoist Qi cultivation is your best protection against UN-consciously choosing to get sick. Nature loves you when you love yourself.

If you cannot overcome fear of live events, please consider my home study courses.

Register for workshops:info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net
OR call (864) 419-4502           Zach, office manager.


September 21, 2021  (Tues. 7–10 pm) Asheville, N.C.

8 nodal seasonal points open a portal for higher cosmic  Qi download.

2. White Dragon of the West:

Fall Equinox + Full Moon Ceremony

 Crystal Bowl Sound Alchemy by Mystery Musician

—  White Dragon Ceremony led by Michael Winn – Open to All

This powerful Equinox Ceremony aligns our authentic personal self with the holy cycle of Nature. It  cultivates and captures the Yuan Qi (Original Breath) or neutral force that forms between yin-yang at moment of equal day and night. — Seasonal Qigong & Silent Meditation (chairs available)

1. Wear item of White clothing to attune to White Dragon

2. Prepare an INTENT (affirmation + STRONG FEELING) on what you Want to RELEASE in your life.

Metal phase is a great time to cut through resistance. Example: “I release my resistance to receiving abundance, new partner, perfect health, etc.” — 

3. Refreshments served afterward. Bring healthy food or drink to share.

4. RSVP required: HIT REPLY or info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net.     Directions will be sent.


3. Oct. 16 – 17,  2021

Asheville, N.C.  Sat/Sun. 9 am – 6 pm

Smiling Buddha

Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 1 & 2

Inner Smile, Five Animals Qigong, Six Healing Sounds,

Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Wudang Orbit.

Location: Michael Winn’s home, atop a Blue Ridge mountain.

Cost: $144. Price based on Sacred Number, unchanged for 20 years!

FULL DESCRIPTION & short videos, or to download course

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4. Nov. 20 – 21, 2021, Sat/Sun. 9 am – 6 pm

primordial qigong
Cross the bridge between personal life  and eternal life, one ceremony at a time.

Primordial Tai Chi for Enlightened Self-Love

(aka Wuji Gong, Primordial Qigong)

Doubles as Certification Training (Certificate no extra cost). Accept adepts who practiced extensively from DVD. Feldenkrais super-learning included: exercises lying on ground. Location: Michael Winn’s Qi-infused home in Asheville, atop a Blue Ridge mountain. Cost: $195.  Space is Limited, sign up early.

full description or order download


5. Dec. 4 – 5, 2021   Sat/Sun.  9 am – 6 pm

Yin-Yang theory is about the Breath of Life flowing within everything.

Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 3 & 4 

Taoist Internal Qi Breathing (3 methods), Bone Breathing and Rooting.

Heals a wide range of chronic illness. Dissolves deep Ancestral issues.

Super grounding standing practice (aka Iron Shirt Qigong). Location: Michael Winn’s home in Asheville, atop Blue Ridge Mountain. Cost: $144.  Price based on Sacred Number, unchanged for 20 years!\

Full Course Description or to order download


• FREE EVENT: Dec. 18, 2021.  Sat 7:15 – 11 pm+





6. Winter Solstice Black Dragon & Full Moon Ceremony

+ Crystal Bowl Sound Alchemy

Location: Michael Winn home in Asheville, N.C.

RSVP required – hit reply, or info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net

Tap  into the power of the Dark Winter Sun’s annual rebith.

True Darkness is the power to birth the Light anew, from the depths of the dark cosmic womb, the eternal mystery of creation.


2022 Spring Workshops & Summer Retreat Dates


 

Loving Your Joy, Unfolding the Way,

Michael Winn

“Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.”
— Taoist Sage, 200 B.C


Michael Winn has 40 years international teaching experience in Tao medical, martial, & spiritual arts. He was a founder and two-term President, National Qigong Association (NQA). He founded Healing Tao University, the largest Tao arts summer program in the West, in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.He is president of the non-profit Dao Alchemy Research Institute, was founder and 9 years Chairman of the Healing Tao Instructor’s Association, and co-founder of the Council of 9 of the Universal Healing Tao (abroad).

He has taught on five continents and at Omega’s Super Qi Summits. He regularly speaks at international conferences of Taoist/Daoist scholars and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Daoist Studies.

Winn has authored ten Tao home study video-audio courses, written dozens of articles, book chapters, and presented papers at conferences. He is co-author or the actual writer of Mantak Chia’s first 7 books, including the classic Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy. His ebooks include Way of the Inner Smile, Five Animals Qigong, and Primordial Tai Chi and Tao Inner Alchemy: Way of Whole-Body Enlightened Self-Love (forthcoming in digital “Seven Bamboo Scrolls”.

He is also on the boards of cutting edge green tech and cyber-security companies, and raises funding for  projects focused on human longevity and self-empowerment.

Winn lives in a simple log home in the mountains near Asheville, N.C. His 7-year old son gives him daily lessons in wu wei (Tao of spontaneous action). Winn has a private Tao therapy practice (live session or phone).

Get Michael Winn’s FREE 130 page ebook Way of the Inner Smile,

with 25 fabulous photos of the world’s most spiritual smiles:

Signup for FREE eBook – $20 value on my homepage:

 

Inner Smile free eBook with Signup to Newsletter

Way of the Inner Smile
130 page eBook + Loving the Tao of Now blog

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