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Growth Group: Taoism, Alchemical Meditation (Year One)
Special Migration Offer: 40% Off
Valid until June 18, 2025
This program will no longer be available for registration after this date.
Join Carlos de León for the first year of the Taoism Practice Growth Group. Along with presentations of foundational theory, the program emphasizes the employment of a series of alchemical meditations called: “Wu Ji Gong”, or the ‘Cultivation of the Limitless’, designed to support personal transformation and liberation.
Growth Group
- Instructor: Carlos de León
- 30 Online Sessions (2 hours each)
- English Interpretation
- Access: 2 Years
About the Program
This Online Growth Group offers an experiential approach to Taoist reality, along with presentations of foundational theory to provide an understanding of the 'View’ which sustains our experience. Group time will emphasize ‘Practicing’ a series of alchemical meditations, designed to support personal transformation and a liberation process, or what the Taoists refer to as ‘Immortality’.
The Ontogonic approach integrates ancient wisdom to create more efficient practices for our modern times. Our approach is called: “Wu Ji Gong”, or the ‘Cultivation of the Limitless’. It paraphrases the words of Chuang Tzu and is the intention and goal of this growth group experience.
One of the most beautiful representations of Taoist vision is the Tao Te Ching, or “The Way and Its Power,” a collection of poetry and sayings from around the 3rd and 4th centuries B.C.E. It is a guide to Taoist thought and actions, whose author is traditionally believed to be the philosopher Lao Tzu. There is little evidence that authenticates Lao Tzu’s life or actual existence, so it is possible that the Tao Te Ching is, in fact, the collected writings of a number of early authors? However, be that as it may…
“To enter the gate of inexhaustibility, And to roam in the fields of infinity.
We shall mingle our light with that of the sun and moon,
And will become eternal with heaven and earth.”
~Tao Te Ching
One of Taoism’s central ideas is the belief in the balancing forces of Yin and Yang; the matching pairs, such as light/dark, hot/cold, action/inaction, that work together toward a universal whole. Yin and Yang show that everything in the universe is connected and that nothing makes sense, or even exists, by itself.
This Online Practice Growth Group is for people who wish to:
- Explore the depths of Taoism as a universal path of wholeness to know the Self and a greater reality;
- Discover a personal experience in the cultivation of an awareness of the Tao; and, most importantly, surrender to the One;
- Integrate goals of living within a philosophy that embraces an Integrative, Ecological, and Evolutionary approach to living in this Creation;
- Experience an ongoing process of growth and transformation through Taoism, a path that is adapted to the personal development of the student.
Five Characteristics of the Taoist Vision:
- Humanistic
- Ecological
- Integrative
- Practical
- Evolutionist
Practices & Program Components
The Wu Ji Gong practice is divided into 8 parts, each one representing one of the trigrams of the Pakua based on the eight books of:
- Kun – Earth
RETURNING TO THE ONE
YIN XIAN FA
SAN XIAN GONG
PEARL CULTIVATION
CAPTURING THE LUNAR ESSENCE
CAPTURING THE SOLAR ESSENCE
PREPARATION OF THE INNER PILL
- Xun – Wind
FEEDING THE PRENATAL CHI
FEEDING THE KIDNEY CHI
HEALING AND SEXUAL ENERGY
Blue Deer Chi Kung I
Blue Deer Chi kung II
- Zhen – Thunder
FIVE ELEMENT CHI KUNG
- Dui – Lake
DIURNAL PRACTICE
NOCTURNAL PRACTICE
6 KICHEON POSTURES
- Li – Fire
INTRO TO DUAL CULTIVATION
The Iron Crotch Chi Kung
Feminine Alchemy
UN DAN XIN FA
SEXUAL HEALING POSTURES
- Qian – Heaven
SAN XIAN GONG
TAIYI JIN HUA ZHONG ZHI
WUJI CHI KUNG
- Kan – Water
SOLITARY CULTIVATION
- Gen – Mountain
DUAL CULTIVATION
Taoism seeks to live life at peace with one's self, and others, and the world of changes. It advocates for conscious experience and completeness of what we are. By exploring the Cosmic Universe, we uncover levels - beyond the physical - revealing possibilities for our future development. It is a time of healing; an interconnection with all that exists, and at all levels of the soul.
