Overview Tao Garden Retreats 2012

Jutta's Retreats description

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 virtuous qualities of love, gratefulness and thankfulness within yourself you can extend it 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 Restreat

• March, Sunday 11th - Saturday 17th, 2012
• May, Sunday 13th - Saturday 19th, 2012
• November, Sunday 11th - Saturday 17th, 2012
  

Women are connected to the heart and when our emotions are balanced we can nurture love in the heart.  Only when we love ourselves can we truly love others. The time tested Taoist female practices and meditations taught in this retreat help women to release and transform deep-seated negative feelings, transforming and balancing our emotions and strengthening self-esteem.  When we find our center within we feel more balanced and content and this enhances our inner beauty and outer radiance.

These practices also regulate hormone production in the body eliminating premenstrual symptoms such as feeling bloated, swelling of the breasts, mood swings etc. They also regulate bleeding during menstruation and many women have reported that through practicing regularly their menstruation returned after many months of menstrual cessation.

The practices are equally 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 becomes 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 practice is healing and nourishing of your body and mind. The uterus is the sexual center for a woman as such. It's potential is far greater than it's reproductive function, that is growing babies in it. If we want to unfold its full 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. This is necessary for our spiritual development through  the higher practices of Taoist internal alchemy.

The Egg Exercise:

The 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 as tight and resilient as those of a young, unmarried lady. The Egg Exercise and Vaginal Weight Lifting were implemented  to improve the power of the Chi muscle to lift sexual energy inward and upward where it is transformed into higher spiritual energy.

In the Cosmic Inner Smile meditation

you learn to feel the sensation of a smile on your face and then move that sensation throughout your body, smiling to all your internal organs, your spine and brain. The simple act of focusing on a smile in this way calms the autonomic nervous system and revitalizes the internal organs by increasing the flow of blood and Chi (life force energy).

The Cosmic 6 Healing Sounds

a basic relaxation and self-healing technique. These special sounds vibrate into 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 the 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 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 is the real key 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.

Fusion I, TanTien Chi Kung & Tao Yini

• March, Sunday 18th - Saturday 24th, 2012

The energy meditation practice of the Fusion of the Five Elements is the intermediate practice between the self healing practices (Inner Smile, Six Healing Sounds, Microcosmic Orbit, Iron Shirt Chi Kung and Healing Love) and the Immortal Tao practices (Kan & Li). We balance negativ and positiv emotional energy ( through the Pakuas ) as well as channeling the earth forces and the universal forces and fuse it into a pearl of pure life force energy. This pearl of condensed life force energy is circulated in the Microcosmic Orbit and is the basis for building an energy body. In this transformational process sexual energy is transformed into spiritual energy .

Tan Tien Chi Kung enhances your ability to feel, develop, and store Chi. The mind becomes calm and relaxed while maintaining a high energy level. When Chi is stored in the lower Tan Tien you develop rooting and internal power. It comes from the heritage of the Immortal Tao.

Chi Nei Tsang I, Abdominal Massage

• May, Sunday 20th - Saturday 26th, 2012
• November, Sunday 18th -Saturday 24th, 2012
• December, Sunday 23rd - Saturday 29th, 2012
  
  Chi Nei Tsang I is a Chinese term for internal organ Chi massage which helps release stress and promotes healing by using massage techniques directly over the navel and surrounding abdominal area where stress, tension and negative emotions accumulate and congest. In the West it this area of the body is known as the second brain and the Taoists regard it 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, bloating and constipation. It eliminates toxins in the gastrointestinal tract and promotes lymphatic drainage.

Chi Nei Tsang II, Chasing The Winds 

• May, Sunday 27th - June, Saturday 2nd, 2012
• November, Sunday 25th - December, Saturday 1st, 2012
  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.

2-day introduction courses in CNT I, Iron Shirt Kung I, Tai Chi Chi Kung I and Female Healing are offered on an ongoing basis at Tao Garden.
PS: It is highly recommended that students attend the morning and evening sessions offered at the Tai Chi field and Lao Tzu meditation hall every day.
For reservations and information please contact: Jutta Kellenberger E-mail : juttak8@gmx.net Skype : juttak8 Tao Garden Health Spa & Resort
274/1 Moo 7, Luang Nua, Doi Saket, Chiang Mai 50220, Thailand
Tel: +6653 921 200, Fax: +6653 495 852
Skype: taogarden1
United States call: (512) 772-4394
Germany call: 0711 5087 6958

Tuition fee THB 14,500 for Tao Garden guest Early Bird discount 20% on accommodation when registering 30days before retreat Please ask for special price at Waju Residence Special offer: Students of Jutta & Walter who register course get special 10% discount for Spa Treatments at Tao Garden Please see room/board rates below. Retreat Time Schedule Sunday evening at 19:30 we have an introduction Monday - Friday Morning Excersise 7:00 - 8:15 Warm-up excercises, Chi Kung Fruit Break 8:15 - 8:30 Papaya w. lemon, banana and passion fruit Morning Meditation 8:30 - 9:00 Inner Smile meditation Breakfast 9:00 - 10.30 at Guan Yin Dining Hall Morning Class 10:30 - 13:00 Meditation, Microcosmic Orbit, Ovarian- and Testicle Breathing, Power Lock, and more..... Lunch 13:00 - 16:30 at Guan Yin Dining Hall Afternoon Class 16:30 - 18:00 Meditation, Iron Shirt Chi Kung I, Jade Egg excercise, Microcosmic Orbit, Ovarian- and Testicle Breathing Dinner 18:00 - 20:00 at Guan Yin Dining Hall Evening Session 20:00 - 21:00 Tao Yin (Chin. Yoga ), Six Healing Sounds Saturday Class ends at 13:00 with lunch.