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                            China Dream Trip 2026

Capture “Root Spiritual Qi”

at Sacred Tao Power Spots

   Thurs. Aug. 20 – Mon. Sept. 7, 2026

 

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19-Day Spiritual Adventure of a Lifetime!

Year of the Fire Horse – Very Auspicious for Travel

led by Michael Winn

22 Trips to China. visited 100+ countries.

Led 45+ Sacred & Adventure Travel Tours

• Cultivate “Root Spiritual Qi” at NINE of China’s and Taiwan’s most sacred Taoist sites.

  “Root” also refers to the Root Qi of the Healing Tao inner alchemy Wandering Taoist lineage. 

• We spend 6 days/5 nights around Mt. Changbai, where Taoist One Cloud received his transmission of the immortal Tao and became a breatharian. He taught Mantak Chia, who shared it with me as one of his first Western students.

• Practice Primordial Tai Chi & shamanic Big Dipper 7-Star-Step Qigong in  powerful Taoist temples and sacred mountains.

• Receive Lao Tzu’s immortal Qi Transmission at West Louguantai (500 b.c.). According to my Inner Sage, Lao Tzu lived here for 125 years!!!

Lao Tzu’s loving guidance on Return to Origin, still radiates into our Present Moment. I feel it’s one of the highest spiritual frequency Qi power spots in all China!

Trip members will receive a free copy of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching to deepen your experience.

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• MY PROMISE: it will be the most amazing trip of your life!  Each trip is a unique & wonderful dream. Some folks have taken 5 Dream Trips!

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the places and moments that take our breath away.” — an Enlightened Traveler

Note: This entire web page is written by Michael Winn, without AI, using NI, Natural Intelligence. 🙂

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THE Premier Taoist China Trip —

 27-Year History of Lives Deeply Touched!

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    This  trip is intense, with China’s top power spots packed into a non-stop 19 days. It requires a total of 7 flights, including San Francisco to Shanghai and Taipei to San Francisco. (Option to begin trip in China, pay only 5 local flights).

    I’ve spent decades scouting out the most spiritual power spots in China (and Taiwan). An ordinary tourist might take years to discover these jewels – if they were lucky. I spent TWO weeks just scouting out Taiwan. Fortunately I had the guidance of a local Taoist, who will be our guide.

    This trip attracts amazing souls with “Blessed-on-High Karma”.  We co-create the premier China Dream Trip. It’s a love fest of like-hearted seekers and spiritual adventurers.

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                    9 Trip Highlights 2026

1. Volcano Crater Ceremony: Changbai – Eternally White Mtn & Heavenly Lake. Incredible Water & Fire Qi!

2.  Hotsprings Spa, base of Mt. Changbai

3.  Tao Master Juxi Teaching, Changbai Taoist temple

4.  Ceremony at Secret Immortals Pavilion, Mt. Hua’s top peak

5.  Ceremony to receive Lao Tzu Transmission – West Louguantai.

6.  China’s Oldest standing Temple  (Fairy Star Mother)  – 1500 yrs old

7.  Primordial Tai Chi & Shamanic Star-Stepping Qigong

   in Xian’s powerful City God, 8 Immortals Temples, & elsewhere.

8.  Gold Mountain Temple, Taiwan: most powerful temple Qi in all Asia!

9. Longest gondola ride in world to high mountain Tea Farm, Taiwan

                        • These are just the tip of a very deep iceberg!

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                            Daily  Schedule (Short)

Below: a super-brief itinerary of trip highlights of some of the top power spots.

Detailed long Daily itinerary coming.

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Day 1 – 2. Thursday. Aug. 20, 2026

(San Francisco to Shanghai flight at 12:30 pm, easy to connect to from USA)

• Fly SFO – PVG  (cross intl date line, lose 24 hours),

    overnight in Shanghai hotel, Fri. Aug. 21.

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Day 3 – 7. Mt. Changbai (“Eternally White”) in Chinese Siberia

Healing Tao Root Holy Mountain  5 NTS

 Michael Winn meditating at a top Tao alchemy power spot on planet earth.

China’s most active volcano generates an amazing Yuan Qi Field (= neutral Qi from Origin) that will boost your Tao cultivation practice and speed your Highest Destiny.

This is where Taoist Hermit One Cloud received his transmission of 7 Inner Alchemy Formulas for Immortality that originate from Lemuria 149,000. years ago (according to my Sage). Wow – that is powerful oral lineage!

Waterfall flowing into valley where I believe Taoist Hermit One Cloud lived.

Changbai is “eternally white” from the snows of Chinese Siberia for most of the year. We have to visit in August to be certain of reaching the top. You cannot hike up – only 4-wheel drive jeep.  I visited once in June, bright sunny weather, but snow had blown across the upper road, closing it.

                                          Active volcano beneath gorgeous Heavenly Lake.

The average temperature in winter is -45 degress F. But as China’s most active volcano, the lake is a hot tub – 82 degrees F. year round. Lake is 6 miles long, 1200 feet deep, the highest volcano-lake in all of China, with 16 jagged crater  peaks up to 6,500 feet.

It’s the most powerful Water & Fire Alchemy “natural cauldron” I’ve found on Earth – and I’ve visited 110 countries. Inner Alchemy Kan & Li meditations are effortless in this super Yuan Qi (Original Breath from Source) field. Hermit One Cloud (Mantak Chia’s teacher) achieved breatharian state here in 1920-30’s. Much easier to do in this powerful cauldron!

The Yuan Qi (= neutral force) field is so powerful it saturates the surrounding terrain for hundreds of miles. The herbs and animals (including Siberian tigers and reindeer) here are famous as being the most potent in all China.

There are many hot springs at the base of the mountain. We’ll spend two nights in a lovely Water Spa, and 2 nights at the only hotel inside the Changbai park boundary, ideal for self-led exploration. Plus an extra meeting Taoist Master Ju Xi and his center at the base of the volcano.

READ my account from my first visit to Mt. Changbai in 2013 for full description.

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Day 8 – 13. Xian  –  Mt. Hua – Lougantai.  6 NTS

China’s capitol for 1500 years, Xian is a living museum. 

8 Immortals & City Gods Temples, jade, silk & fine artisan crafts.

Dream Tripper in deep meditative trance at Lao Tzu’s “Ascension Site” in West Louguantai.

Day trip, 2 hrs from Xian. One of the most powerful energy spots I’ve found in all China.

Ren Fa Rong, former head of China Taoist Association, ran the main temple in Louguantai for 30 years. He gave my group a talk on the I Ching. Afterwards, he advised me to go to West Louguantai to visit Lao Tzu’s Ascension Site.

I asked him, “How could they know, as it was 2500 years ago?” He shrugged. “The story has been passed down since ancient times”.

Skeptical, I went there. It was totally baffling: a small, run down temple with no roof,  bare brick walls. Filled with trash, no caretaker. BUT – it had INCREDIBLE celestial Qi !!!

I identified it as Over Soul energy (Great Spirit, da shen). Where did it come from?

I’ve been there many times. The amazing Qi is very stable, never changes.  My Inner Sage finally revealed to me WHY:

“Lao Tzu lived to the age of 204 years. He settled in West Louguantai for the last 125 years of his life. His students visited him there for trainings in neidan gong (inner alchemy) and qigong. He chose his own date of ascension, and took his physical body with him.

“The Qi at this site is from his living and teaching there, not from his ascension. When he decided his earthly destiny was complete, he walked alone a few miles up the road to Mt. Tai. There was a loud thunder clap, and Lao Tzu immediately disappeared into the highest heaven, leaving no trace. No human witness.”

I was deeply affected by the site’s  spiritual Qi. When I returned to USA, I drilled an energetic  tunnel between the Stone Circle meditation circle of 8 giant quartz crystal boulders in my back yard,  through the center of the planet, to the humble site in West Louguantai.

I now enjoy a fountain of Lao Tzu’s celestial Qi pulsing up where I daily practice. How lovely is that?

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Trip to Mt. Hua (Flower Mtn) 2 NTS

Flower Mountain is China’s “Taoist Yosimite” with temples perched on the edge of dramatic cliffs.

Its South Peak summit is 7,087 feet, the highest peak of all China’s Five Sacred Tao Mountains.

We’ll spend two full days exploring Mt. Hua. We’ll take the West cable car up in morning, and the North cable car down next evening. Both are spectacular.

Spend one night at Golden Temple atop Mt. Hua’s highest peak. We’ll do a powerful ceremony on edge of a 3000 ft. cliff. On the 2024 Dream Trip many identified this as the spiritual high point of the trip.

Serious hikers have option to climb from base to top (6 hours). We are NOT staying in caves or Qingkeping monastery this trip.

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Day 14 – 18. Taiwan – Most Powerful Tao Temple in Asia!

 5 NTS / 6 Days

Taiwan’s tea culture is world famous.

We’ll take the world’s longest gondola to top of one of the finest mountain tea fields.

Visit the National Museum, one of the best in Asia, with many of China’s top imperial treasures taken from Forbidden City in Beijing by Chang Kai Shek, his last ditch escape in 1949.

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I was shocked to discover THE most powerful Taoist temple I’ve experienced in all of Asia is here, on a remote mountain over looking the sea. It has Over soul Qi (da shen, Great Spirit).

It’s completely unknown, not even listed in Taiwan tour guides to temples. A high level local Taoist adept (Alex) introduced me to it. He will be our guide in Taiwan.

We’ll spend a full day here doing ceremonies to call in our highest destiny. This place is INTENSE. Perfect way to wrap up our pilgrimage to top Tao power sites in China.

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Day 19. Fly Taiwan to Los Angeles.  Mon. Sept. 7, 2026

We gain 24 hrs, crossing Intl. Date Line

Plan now for the “spiritual adventure” of your life.

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                   Get on Early Signup List

• If you want to be put on advance notice “wait list”, email:

info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net

A lot of Dream Trippers from 2024 are planning to go again in 2026, so space may be limited.

Just reading this webpage will give you a good education about Taoism in China.

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 Table of Contents – 2026 Trip

A. How are “Dream Trips” Different?

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B.  China Dream Trip Team

1. Michael Winn, Trip Leader

2. Emerald Winn, Dragon Master, Trip Protector

3. Christopher Kazepis, Assistant Trip Leader.   

4. Diana Li,  Changbai-Xian Guide

5. Alejandro Penataro, Taiwan Guide

6. Virginia Chan, Trip Travel Agent (Los Angeles)

7,  Geoffrey Bernard, Healing Tao USA Office Manager

8. Trip Co-Stars & Co-Dreamers (YOU + Friends)

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C.  What to Know about Taoist Temples

1. Temple Culture in China

2. How to Capture Qi Hidden in Tao Temples

3. Wandering Taoist: One Cloud

4. Top 10 Taoist Temples on 2026 Trip

1. Juxi Tao Temple to Lao Tzu, base Mt. Changbai

2. City God Temple, Xian

3. Eight Immortals Temple – Xian

4. Fairy Star Mother Temple, Lintong

5. Jade Spring Temple – base Mt. Hua

6. Golden Temple, top peak, Mt. Hua

7. Secret Immortals Pavilion – top peak of Mt. Hua  

8. Gold Mountain Temple, north coast Taiwan       

9. Bao An Temple, Taipei. Medicine and demonological-exorcism.   

10. Zhinan Temple, Taiwan. At base of gondola to high tea mountain.                                        

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    D.  Praise for Dream Trips (sample)

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E. Dream Trip Mission

1. Our Spiritual Mission

2. The Premier Taoist China Trip

3. China Made Easy and FUN

4. Why Primordial Tai Chi in China is More Powerful!

5. Links to Primordial Tai Chi articles & videos

6. Shamanic Big Dipper Star Stepping – 2500 years old!

7. Suggested Reading:  “DREAM TRIPPERS” Book or Winn book review

8. Great Photos (previous Dream Trips)

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F. Daily Detailed Schedule + Plan YOUR Flights

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G. Dream Trip Cost & Due Dates

1. LAND Cost

2. Reserve Your Spot: $600. Land Deposit

     • WHAT you get after $600. Land deposit

3. LAND discounts

4. Trip is 100% Tax Deductible 501c3

5. Five Ways to Signup & Pay Deposit

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6. Group AIR Cost from San Francisco

7. LAND + AIR total Ex-San Francisco 

8. Save on Connecting Flights to SFO

9. Group Air Cost starting from SHANGHAI

10. Pay Group Air by April 1, to Lock-in Group Discount

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11. Single Room Supplement

12. Tipping Pool

13. Extended Payment Plans

14. What’s NOT Included in Land Cost

15. Balance Due Dates

16. Cancellation Policy

17. Low-Cost Travel Insurance – Please Buy!

18. Money Back Guarantee

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H. More TESTIMONIALS from Dream Trippers

       Question: How did the China Trip change your life?

I. How I First Fell in Love with Mt. Hua

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A. How are “Dream Trips” Different?

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Dream Tripper in deep meditative trance at Lao Tzu’s Ascension site.

China Dream Trip is for folks who believe life is a spiritual adventure.

• This trip will super-charge the Path of sincere Cultivators of the Way.

• It’s for souls who hunger for the riches of ancient wisdom, who love off-the-beaten path beauty in faraway lands.

• It’s not an ordinary tourist or educational tour. It requires the discipline of a simple daily group Qigong practice. When a powerful group focuses powerful Qi in a powerful place, magic happens.

• It attracts souls who love a dynamic spiritual process, inside and out, at the same time.

• NO PRIOR Qigong or Tai Chi experience required. Trip suitable for anyone with an Open Heart and two Walking Legs.

• Everyone will receive high level Qi training in China. You’ll absorb what YOU are ready for.

It’s easy to make friends in China – the people are very warm-hearted.

• The hallmark of Dream Trips is they compress 6-8 weeks of painfully slow ordinary tourist travel in China into 2.75 action-packed weeks focused on Tao power spots. Everything is planned down to the minute, and executed by a skilled team after nine months of planning and work.

• This Journey to the Middle Kingdom is designed to be a life-changing experience. Group support is part of that richness. Want to have “serious spiritual fun” with a fabulous group of souls?

Do you seek a lightening bolt of fresh energy to unfold your highest destiny in the Year of the Fire Horse? If YES, this is the trip for you.

 

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                              B. China Dream Trip Team

                                         1. Michael Winn  – Trip Leader

This will be Michael’s 23rd trip to China. His leadership and seasoned team assures you will have a safe, fun, and profound experience that few travelers to China enjoy.

He’s been to over 100 countries. He’s an an ex-war correspondent in Africa turned spiritual guide. He’s led over 45 adventure & sacred tour groups on five continents.

Michael founded Healing Tao USA in 1995, wrote Mantak Chia’s first 7 books. Mantak came on the 2010 Dream Trip. Winn is past President of National Qigong Association and one of its founders. He created 10 Tao home-study courses on Qigong and Tao Inner Alchemy, is a prolific writer on decoding and making esoteric Taoism accessible for Westerners.

Winn Short Bio

Winn Long Bio

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                     2. Emerald Winn –  Dragon Master, Trip Protector

We are blessed with a 12-year old Dragon Master. His allies, high in Heaven and deep in Earth, ensure no harm will come to anyone flowing in our Tao Dream Wave. He looks small, but his field is BIG. Mess with him at your own risk.

At home, he walks around with a dragon-headed staff, that pulls out to reveal a 16-inch blade.  If I lose sleep at night, it is worrying about the safety of burglars who cross his path.

 

                 

 

 

 

 

Double Dragon Guardians,

drawn by Emerald

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The Beauty of Yin & Yang

By Emerald Winn, written at age 7

Day and night,

Black and white,

Yin and Yang are not a fright.

Underwater, in the air,

Yin and Yang are everywhere.

Looking for Tao,

Deep below and high above,

My pink dragon heart shines its love.

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                     3. Christopher Kazepis –  Assistant Trip Leader

                          4. Diana Li – Guide, Changbai-Xian-Mt. Hua

Diana Li is native to Xian.She knows its people and culture intimately. She has a wonderful loving heart and is committed to serving the Dream Trippers. She was guide for the 2014, 2016, 2019, and 2024 trips.

She says meeting Western Wandering Taoists changed her life. She is now interested in Taoism. She overcame her fear to hiking atop Mt. Hua’s steep cliffs. She will also be our guide in Changbai, Xian, and Louguanti..

She recently had a second child, beautifully named “Dawn of Fresh Jade”.

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                                    5. Alejandro Penataro – Guide, Taiwan

Alex is an amazing anomaly. A native of Spain, he lived in Taiwan for over 25 years. His Chinese and English are perfect.

He is master of many different Taoist skills, including  TCM medicine, ritual, astrology (Qi Men Dunjia), meditation. When the Chinese master of his Maoshan Tao sect died, Alex was chosen as its new master. As far as I know, he is the only Westerner ever to hold that status anywhere in Asia.

We are blessed to have such an “over-qualified” guide in Taiwan.

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                        6. Virginia Chan – Trip Travel Agent (Los Angeles)

Virginia has been handling my Dream Trips for 25 years. She speaks Chinese, is based in Los Angeles, and can handle your connecting flights and visa.  You will get her full attention, one-on-one. Reliable, fast response.

626 861 7879 mobile

To expedite Visa, mail passport + 2×2″ photo + visa application to:

Virginia Chan c/o Cathay Tours
500 Walnut Ave.
Arcadia, CA 91007

Visa documents and fees will be sent after you register for trip.

Note: Always use trackable overnight service for passports.

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                    7.  Geoffrey Bernard, Office Manager, Healing Tao USA

Geoffrey is your “go-to” guy if you have a problem BEFORE the trip with ANYTHING.

Trips documents, payment questions, copy of your visa, travel coordination, general hand-holding.

He was on the 2024 trip, and loved it so much he plans to go in 2026. So he can offer “real-time” advice.

His office email: info.HealingTaoUSA@earthlink.net

Mobile: 828-338-8496

 

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                            8. Trip Co-Stars & Co-Dreamers (YOU + Friends)

At our favorite Dumping Restaurant in Xian

Everyone who comes on this trip is a star!

That’s why we do Star-Stepping Qigong together.  🙂

What is a key factor that makes Dream Trips so different from jaded tourist trips?

They attract a fabulous group of spiritual adventurers who ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE in creating the magic.

Not mere curiosity seekers, but fascinating folks who are excited about following in the footsteps of Taoist Immortals and doing powerful Qigong ceremonies in China’s highest spiritual energy spots. There is no requirement that you have previous experience with tai chi or qigong. Just arrive with an open heart, curious mind, and willingness to play.

Our daily group practice super-charges our Qi Field – and the spiritual FUN!

I often hear “the incredible people I met on the trip and grew to love were as important as China itself”. This is a trip where you make lifetime friends. Or might find your soul mate. A Tripper married one of my guides! Two others moved to China to live, married Chinese wives.

 

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C. What to Know about Taoist Temples

1. Temple Culture in China

  Cauldron with Pearl in front of Taoist temple. Pearl is alchemy symbol for the Elixir of Life spontaneously arising as the crystallization of our soul.

There are 38,000. Taoist & Buddhist temples in China. Their function is very different from western churches.  Chinese don’t formally “join” a sect or temple, or limit themselves by believing in only one religion.

They are very practical, and visit temple based on what they seek in the moment. Many visit temples as a place to find peace and quiet, or let go of their anxiety.

Chinese don’t seek psycho-therapy or individual counseling, because it labels you as an outcast, as “not fitting into group harmony”. Their therapy is to go to a temple.

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2. Capture Qi Hidden in Tao Temples

The cauldron (ding) is an alchemical symbol of mixing the three streams of Qi – yang, yin, & yuan – represented by the cauldron’s three legs.

I am not a follower of Temple (religious lineage) Taoism. It is a cultural construct, with many Gods, statues, priests in uniform.

Most Tao temples are run by the Complete Perfection Order (Quanzhen). I consider them 25% Taoist in their core beliefs.

The other 75% is Buddhist monastic rules of sexual celibacy & vegetarian diet, Confucian beliefs in patriarchal hierarchy.

The monks and nuns are not sovereign. The state – the atheist Communist Party – owns the temples, appoints the abbots, and controls the priest certifications. Novitates pledge allegiance to the State, not to Lao Tzu.

Westerners are NOT allowed to join any state-controlled temple sect.

I personally, and all Healing Tao USA adepts, are Wandering Taoists. We follow the free-flowing lineage of Lao Tzu (Laozi) and Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi). Lao Tzu preceded religious temple Taoism by 700 years.

They follow Nature as their teacher, their own body as the temple of the Tao. They are sovereign beings, who never bowed to the emperor or social-religious doctrines or power structures.

But temple Taoists serve a valuable function. Wandering Taoists are hard to find, hidden in a population of 1.5 billion people.

About 750 million Chinese are considered “folk Taoists”, similar to Wandering Taoists, but mixed with local temples and a mish-mash of spiritual beliefs, similar to western New Agers.

But Taoist temples, despite their mishmash of religious cosmologies, hold a spiritual value. They are “cultural placeholders” in China for Taoist ideals and practices. They have accumulated powerful Qi over their many centuries.

The monks and nuns that maintain Tao temples freely admit their pantheon of Gods are really just energy patterns of Qi. The Qi is given form as statues to satisfy human need for the spiritual-made-tangible.

The popularity of all religion is based on tangible deities-in-human-form. They.serve as a go-between an impersonal, formless Heaven, and tangible Earth.

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3. Healing Tao Lineage: Wandering Taoist One Cloud

Lao Tzu dances  in ecstasy: Elixir-Pearl from Origin

China Dream Trippers visit these temples to witness and capture the ancient Qi stored within them. We do our own practices to gather the lovely local Qi into our inner “pearl” or “Qi ball”. using Primordial Tai Chi and Big Dipper 7-Star Stepping Qigong.

Many Dream Trippers  had powerful meditations in these temples. If you have trained in qigong and inner alchemy, your skill will be stronger in “eating” this lovely ancient temple Qi.

Healing Tao was born because a city-dwelling Taoist was not satisfied with the teachings at Taoist temples in the 1920s. An honest Temple Taoist priest told him, “We do not know the high level neidan gong (inner alchemy). You must go find a Wandering Taoist in the mountains”.

He went to “China’s Siberia” and found a teacher named White Cloud on Mt. Changbai, an active volcanic crater filled with a deep lake. He took on a Taoist name, One Cloud, and received the 7 Inner Alchemy Formulas. After many years as a hermit, he became a breatharian.

The first of the 7 formulas was very long, so I divided it  into three, making a new total of “9 Formulas of Immortality“. They were handed down, adept-to-adept, for 1000 years.

This history illustrates a key point: there are TWO types of  Taoist lineages.

One is a lineage of Taoist METHODS, like the formulas handed down by One Cloud.

The other is a lineage of INSTITUTIONS, religious sects with ordinations of monks and nuns, like Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) or Zhengyi (Celestial Masters).

Their beliefs and practices may overlap, but their social structure is very different.

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4. Taoist Temples: 2026

Dream Tripper meditating in a Taoist Temple

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D. Praise for Dream Trips (sample)

Many Dream Trippers say the incredible community of spiritual co-adventurers was half the value of the trip, with China’s treasures being the other half!

Dream Trips attract amazing people from interesting and diverse backgrounds and spiritual paths. One trip had people from nine countries. 

 Tao encourages everyone to follow their own “Way”, but it sure is nice to have friends to share it with.

(a short sample; more testimonials below)

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Unforgettable, Extraordinary Experiences with Crazy Fun Bunch!

“I am still unpacking the chi from my unforgettable experiences doing qigong in China’s sacred mountains. This trip gave me continuous ecstasy, amazing landscapes, superb food and powerful sacred temples and monasteries.

All with a crazy fun bunch of warm-hearted western adepts accompanied by a premium group of Tao immortals! Thank you all for such an extraordinary experience!”   – Aurelio, Mexico City

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                    The Qi in China was Simply Mind-blowing!

“The Qi (chi) I experienced in China was simply mind blowing! I got a transmission from being in those mountains that has totally opened up new levels of my inner vision.” – Mark, Fla.

“Thanks seems extremely insufficient to express my gratitude to you for making this trip to China possible – but, anyway, please accept my sincere gratitude. It was the most powerful experience of my life and continues to have a palpable moment-to-moment effect upon me.“ — Very Happy Camper

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I Stripped Naked atop Mt. Hua…felt  Dragons Breathing on me!

I spent three days at the group’s “secret spot” atop Mt. Hua. During Primordial Chi Gung I saw  the clouds mystically rise like angels and dragons and daggers. I could sense the clouds as the dragons breath.

I stripped naked once, and laid down on the rocks, My spine aligned with the spine of the granite mountain.

Now that I am home, I am feeling my spine aligning with the mountains. I rode a cloud dragon up a spiral towards heaven, taming my wild mind as the wind washed through me, playful & euphoric.

I thought: THE IMMORTALS ARE THE MOUNTAINS. I saw them through the eyes of the dragon, a bat, and a butterfly. I feel altered forever. I still ride the dragon now that I am home.  – Dragon Girl, California

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Wow! We Were Total Beginners…

“I can’t begin to tell you how much we enjoyed the trip and what a profound effect it had on us. It inspired us to do a strong daily practice!” – Couple with minimal previous qigong experience

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  Gateway to What my Soul was Seeking!

“Thank you, thank you, thank you! You have been the gateway to what my soul was seeking for. This China trip is a milestone in my life, a profound spiritual development. Each time I think about you and the group my heart beats faster and a big unstoppable smile takes over!

The outer trip was set up perfectly, to make our inner spiritual trip go perfectly! From start of the trip to the end, it was like yin and yang making love… it was so beautiful! Poetic…simply magnificent!” 

– 2nd gen Chinese man, living in Toronto, this was his first visit to China

  E. China Dream Trip Mission

The Three Pure Ones: symbols of Heaven, Earth & Humanity trinity.

1. Our Spiritual Mission:

     To experience the spiritual essence of China, and deepen our grounding in the Tao, the Natural Way of our Cosmos.

    We do Cosmological Qigong forms like Primordial Tai Chi and Star-Stepping Qigong in China’s most sacred and beautiful landscapes and temples. We connect to its ancestral Qi (chi). We meet with Taoists in their own element.

    We explore both ancient and modern cultures of China’s people. We feast on local cuisines at sumptuous banquets. We explore its most famous cultural sites (Great Wall, Terra Cotta Warriors).

    We go off the beaten path to find the hidden Taoist spiritual secrets — before they disappear in China’s mad modern rush to forget its rich ancient history. 

    My personal Mission is to create the finest Dream Trip I would give to myself, if I could only visit China once. I hope you receive this journey as a precious gift.

— Michael Winn

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2. Premier Taoist China Trip

The 2026 trip upholds the Dream Trip’s pioneer status as the only one to offer a genuine”Tao immersion”, with  experience Lao Tzu’s humble living abode, on Mt. Changbai, Mt. Hua shan and Gold Mtn in Taiwan.

Dream Trips keep the door open between Western and Chinese Taoists. They deepen the ground of our personal practice. We engage directly with the sacred Qi radiating from the heart of sacred Taoist Mountains.

We daily practice ancient lineage Primordial Tai Chi (850 years) & Big Dipper Qigong (2000 years+).  These connect us to powerful Qi currents flowing in sacred sites.

If your heart feels drawn to China’s spiritual mystery, I advise you to trust your soul’s guidance. Trust the Tao will supply the time and resources to GO.

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3. It’s China Made Easy & Fun

Traveling on your own in China is a hassle. You have to hire translators, and you’ll only see one third as much as I’ve been able to pack into this Cream Trip. Even if you are a “travel snob” like me, who never takes group tours, you will love this one. The people are FUN!

We climb on some of China’s most powerful sacred mountains. We keep the hiking easy, using cable cars to first get to the spectacular walking areas.

Yes, there are stretches of steep stairs – but who cares when the view is what really takes your breath away? Our group qigong practice will give you incredible energy to handle those stairs and our packed travel schedule.

Walking on sacred mountains evokes the energy of pilgrimmage: each step deepens our holy connection to the earth.

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4. Primordial Tai ChI in China is More Powerful!

Dream Trippers do Primordial Tai Chi everywhere we go in China. Its design captures the Qi from any venue: temples, parks, the Great Wall, remote sacred mountain tops, dragon ley lines. historical power spots.

Primordial Tai Chi is the energetic glue that binds and harmonizes our travel group. It fuels our exploration of China by putting us into “continuous transformation mode”.  It also deepens our living link to a long lineage of Chinese wuji gong adepts going back 850 years to Chang San Feng in the 13^th century.

The Dream Trips allow Westerners to feel Tao cosmology on actual Chinese earth. I’ve found it to be very different from “earth” elsewhere. Sacred mountains where Taoists have been meditating for centuries are more conscious than mountains elsewhere.

Primordial Tai Chi is a powerful spiritual tool for grounding deep into China’s energetic reality. Planet earth’s Energy Body holds the charge locally within its memory from its interactions with Taoists, and we re-awaken it with each ceremony.

We practice in China’s most powerful temples, sacred mountains, and caves. The Qi in these power spots has already been cultivated by Taoist adepts for thousands of years. In particular the Earth Qi is special in a Taoist sacred mountain, and it helps us build a strong inner earth in our personal Energy Body.

Tao sacred mountains are thus “Awake”, i.e. Self-conscious. The Qi we “eat” is thus more refined than Qi in other parts of the world, like the cities where most people live. This special Earth Qi will support each of us.

When you come home, you will feel super-grounded. Your foundation will be stronger and you’ll feel ready to create your deepest Life Path.

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Anyone, including total newbies, can learn the gracefully simple 850 year old lineage form,  Mantak Chia learned this form on the 2010 Dream Trip, and loved it so much he adopted it into the Universal Healing Tao certification system.

• Attendees on this trip may opt to get certified to teach the form. I’ll send you a Certificate after the trip is over, at your request.

It’s an amazing form that combines medical qigong, inner alchemy, feng shui, cosmic I Ching patterns, and tai chi’s graceful movements.

• You get a free 2-hour training video of the form in advance, when you put trip deposit down. This form is something that you’ll take home with you from China, a lifetime treasure.

• Even as we visit the “must-see” cultural highlights of China, we constantly focus on using Qigong & Tai Chi to absorb the Qi of China into our personal Energy Body.

• When you get back home, China is deeply rooted in your bones and vital organs. That’s why many people report dreaming  for YEARS about their Dream Trip!

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5. Links: Primordial Tai Chi Articles & Videos

1. Read the introduction to my forthcoming book: Primordial Tai Chi: Way of Enlightened Self-Love. (PDF download)

2. View 8 min. video of Primordial Tai Chi Form

3. Tao News: How Does Primordial Tai Chi Grow Self-Love?

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6. Shamanic Big Dipper 7-Star Stepping Qigong

We train in the rare and ancient shamanic Big Dipper 7-Star Stepping Qigong. There is no video or DVD, it’s not on the internet. I teach it only to 7th Formula Star Alchemy adepts and Dream Trippers.

This is the oldest qigong form I’ve uncovered, amongst hundreds I’ve reviewed. It was transmitted to me from a lineage holder of Nu Xian Pai, “Path of the Female Immortals”. It’s a Wandering Taoist lineage that I met through my extensive network of qigong teachers in China.

It is a perfect complement to Primordial. Primordial turns counter-clockwise in left-turning spirals – the direction of dissolving old realities.

There are 64 I Ching hexagrams, and the form has a total of 64 corner turns + cardinal direction gathrings. Our DNA helix has 64 codons on it. 64 is the total number of all potential changes.

Star Stepping turns clockwise in 28 right-turning squares – the direction of manifestation. There are 28 Lunar Mansions that “step down” personal destiny Qi from the Pole Star.

Performed in sequence, the two forms fit like your hand  slipping comfortably into a cosmic glove. You can do them in any sequence, Primordial then STar, or v.v.

 The Star Stepping form functions like a “brain gym”.  The opposing arm and leg  movements feel like a ancient Taoist esoteric square dance.

It aligns with Taoist inner alchemy method of absorbing purple Qi  from the Pole Star. This shamanic qigong generates a very special and powerful Qi field. It was used in ancient times to build a protective field around one’s community, or by soldiers before going into battle.

Taoists believe the Pole Star & 7 Big Dipper star Beings control a human’s Worldly Destiny (ming).

Are YOU ready to take higher causal control of your destiny?         

8. Fabulous Photos

– Previous China Dream Trips

A Dream Trip Guide embraces her Monkey Mind. 

Photos below show the incredible richness of life in China that Dream Trippers are immersed in.

1. Top China Dream Trip photos:  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.361777373934405.1073741841.339082189537257&type=3

2. Dream trip to Huashan, Emeishan:  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.339517982827011.1073741829.339082189537257&type=3

3. China Dream Trip ’09 (Yunnan, Chengdu):  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.358863650892444.1073741835.339082189537257&type=3

4. China Dream Trip ’08 (Huashan, Laoshan, Taishan):
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.355374684574674.1073741831.339082189537257&type=3in 

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  F. Daily Schedule – Full Detail

(2026 Forthcoming)

• Plan Your Connecting Flights

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G. Dream Trip Cost & Balance Due Dates

Dream Tripper does Tai Chi at entry gate to a temple.

1. LAND Cost 

LAND cost 19 -day trip: $6,249.

LAND cost is same, whether starting in San Francisco or Shanghai.

• See Extended Payment option below for half of Land cost ($3,125.)

LAND Includes:

All airport transfers in China, all hotels (with free wi-fi), monastery room rentals, meals in itinerary (only a few lunch exceptions on hiking/shopping days), all private buses, all cable car & gondola tickets, all park, temple & Mountain Entry fees.

Covers local guides-translators salary & land costs, daily Qi training by Trip Leaders & their Land and Air travel costs.

(See “Not Included” section below).

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2. LAND Discounts

1. Returning Dream Tripper, $100. discount for EACH trip taken previously.

2. Michael Winn students, $100 discount. (“student “= recently attended LIVE workshop or retreat, or bought $300.+ of home study courses, in the last 5 years, i.e. from 2021 or later)

3. Healing Tao Instructor, $100. discount (dues paid). Also applies to UHT instructors outside USA.

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                     3. Trip is 100% Tax Deductible 501c

Healing Tao USA is the dba (“doing business as”) for Dao Alchemy Research Institute, Inc. It is an IRS approved 501c3 religious non-profit since 2001. Donations to it are TAX EXEMPT. 

• Conservative Accountant: US citizens may claim at least 40%+ of total trip cost as tax deductible. This may offer up to $1200. in savings for someone in 25% tax bracket.

• Agressive accountant (or “no accountant”): get 100% tax-exemption, with $2,100. in tax savings for someone in 25% tax bracket. No one has ever been challenged on this by IRS.

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                       4. SAVE Your Spot: $600. Land Deposit

Hop on your Fire Horse and Get MOVING – Place Your Deposit!

• $600. LAND deposit will hold your spot on China Dream Trip.

• Deposit is 100% refundable until March 1, 2026.

Deposit is subject to my confirmation, in case of over subscription. If over subscribed, 100% of your deposit will be returned.

• You must fill out the Registration Form A, sent to you after deposit received.

• Please read Cancellation Policy below before making deposit.

• $600. Land Deposits paid AFTER March 1, 2026 do NOT have refund option.

• Credit cards (Visa or MC) ARE accepted for $600. Land deposit, with no card fee charged except Amex.

• 5% Surcharge on all American Express card payments, including $600. deposit.

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• Read CANCELLATION Policy (at end) before placing deposit.

• See BALANCE DUE DATES section before placing deposit.

• ALERT: This trip could fill up quickly.

We don’t give out sign-up numbers, only confirm if space is still available.

Act immediately and pay $600. deposit if you feel it’s your highest destiny to go to China.

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            • WHAT you get after $600. Land deposit

1) FREE 2-hour Primordial Tai Chi training video download.
Note: If you already know Primordial, you may ask for a substitute video download of any of my other videos.

2) What to Pack (based on years of experience)

3) How to Prevent Jet Lag on long flight to China

4) FREE Dream Trippers eBook (see Suggested Reading section)

5) List of all Dream Trippers with short bio

6) Sacred Daily Timetable for you to print out and use in China

7) Hiking Map of Mt. Hua

9) Rooming List (to help find others in hotel)

10. How to Get a Visa to China (need Passport valid until Feb. 20, 2026)

        Chinese offices in USA do NOT accept mail-in applications. Virginia solves the problem.

11. Legal Terms of Agreement on China Trip to be signed.

12. Travel Insurance policy info

12. Emergency Contact List: tel. of guides, hotels in case you get separated, or family wants to track you ASAP.

13. Free copy of one of my favorite translations of the Tao Te Ching:

      The Natural Way and its Power, by Lao Tzu

• These documents are delivered over time, not all at once.

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                                   5.  FIVE WAYS TO PAY

• For balance of Land and Air costs, please pay with:

1. physical checks,

2. Zelle (to Healing Tao USA),

3. Paypal (friends/family – no fees),

4. cash hand-delivery, 

5. bank-wire funds.

• No Venmo or credit cards.

• If you need to finance the trip balance with credit cards, a 4% surcharge on MC/VISA/Discover will be added.  The trip is not priced to cover credit card fees. Those airline miles you earn cost me!

• See Extended Payment Option below.

             Details of How to Pay

1. PAYPAL or Zelle

(friends & family) $600. to: winn.dao@earthlink.net
or by Zelle to Chase JPM Bank: Healing Tao USA (account name).
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2. LIVE PHONE.

Call office manager Geoffrey Bernard at 828-338-8496. Give your credit card info.

Note different phone from 2024.
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3. ANSWER MACHINE.

Safely leave your name and credit card on our answering machine (+ leave a call back number).
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4. EMAIL CC info

Email credit card information to: info.HealingTaoUSA@earthlink.net Put the exp. date and CVC code in a second email for greater security.

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5. Snail Mail a CHECK,

• If you want to  get a tax-write off, make any physical check out to “Dao Alchemy Research Institute, Inc.”  (501c3 non profit, dba Healing Tao USA).

• Check should be post-marked within 24 hours of message/email to hold your booking date.

a. Email info.HealingTaoUSA@earthlink.net for address to mail check to.

To confirm “check is in the mail”, please CALL Geoffrey mgr. and/or EMAIL (see above).

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Geoffrey’s mobile phone: 828-338-8496

If you call, leave voice message with your name and phone number: “Please hold a space – I confirm I have mailed a $600. deposit check on XYZ date”.

OR email that message, so we can be on lookout for your check.

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If you choose phone or mail to pay deposit, please confirm you have paid or left message to pay by ALSO sending an email to info.HealingTaoUSA@earthlink.net.

This allows me (Michael) to monitor all signups.

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6. Group AIR Cost from San Francisco

Group package air cost from SFO: $2,379.

Must be paid by April 1, 2026.

• Airfare package includes a total of SEVEN flights:

1, San Francisco – Shanghai,

2, return Taipei – San Francisco.

3. three flights INSIDE China (to remote Siberia!)

4. 2 flights from China to Taiwan.

• This airfare is only guaranteed IF there are no changes in airline prices (likely very minimal) and IF $2,379. (or adjusted amount) is paid by April 1, 2026.

Airfare group price requires a minimum of 15 travelers (easily achieved, already have 20 tentative sign-ups). After April 1, 2026, airfare subject to individual booking cost.

• Currently most Chinese airlines allow as baggage::

Day pack + Roll-aboard + one 25 kg. checked bag free.

• Since $2,000. Land Payment is due on April 1, it may be simpler for you to pay the airfare at the same time.

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7. Total LAND + AIR Ex-San Francisco

2026 Air + Land Total (before Land discounts):

$6,249. Land 19 days + $2,379. Air (7 flights) = $8,628. ex-SFO total cost.

 

       Is It Expensive?  NO. Historically, it’s a BARGAIN!

• Land + Air cost of 2019 Dream Trip – SEVEN years before 2026 trip – was $6,990. The  increase is only $234. a year. It’s an average 2.8% annual increase – less than inflation rate in China over last 7 years. Yet private bus rental has jumped 50%!

• If you take the 100% tax write off as a Donation, it vastly reduces trip cost, by up to 25%!

• I work hard to keep this super-high quality trip affordable, with financing options. China is no longer 3rd world, it’s economy is now 2nd world.

• I have a large support team that boosts the quality of my trips far beyond anything else available. I have high over-head costs, but it is money well spent.

• When weighing the cost, know that a life-changing spiritual Qi training and the experience in China’s sacred mountains and temples is Price-less!

The best insurance you will “get your money’s worth” are the 22 trips I’ve made to China, and my 25 other group tours I organized around the world.

• My perfectionist desire (Virgo sun) is to deliver an incredible, life-changing spiritual adventure.

Read the testimonials (two sections).

• The only reason I do the huge 9 months work to organize each trip is because I personally love the people who come and feel their and my own deep spiritual advancement on each trip.

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8. Save on Connecting Flights To SFO

Save money by getting a single fare from/to your home airport that connects to group SFO-PVG fare.

Low-cost round trip add-on fares to/from SFO from domestic US cities may be available. See Daily Schedule (section above) for exact flight numbers and times to link.

Contact Virginia Chan, our group travel agent in Los Angeles. Her contact info is on Dream Team profile.

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9. Group AIR Cost from SHANGHAI

• $1,279. is total AIR cost if YOU book your own flight TO SHANGHAI (PVG), and FROM TAIPEI (TPE) to your home.

$1,279. covers 5 flights: 3 flights inside China, and 2 flights from China to Taiwan.

The LAND costs are un-changed.

• Revised calculation for your total Land + Air (ex-Shanghai):

$6,249 LAND + $1,279. AIR inside China (before LAND discounts – see above):

= $7,528. Total Ex-Shanghai base cost.

• Plan to meet the SFO group at our Shanghai airport hotel on Friday Aug. 21, 2026.

i need to know what time you are arriving in Shanghai, to coordinate hotel booking.

• Ex-Shanghai Option may work for folks who live in Europe or Asia, anyone who wants to arrive early or stay late, or use airline miles to fly to Shanghai or from Taipei.

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               10. Pay Group Air by April 1, 2026 to Lock-in Discount

To lock-in group AIR:

Pay $2,379. or $1279. AIR by April 1, 2026.

I should have FINAL group airfare from China by then.

If you pay this amount earlier, and airfares increases before April 1, you will have to pay the difference (likely minimal).

  After April 1, for late signups, our travel agent Virginia Chan may have to buy your air tickets individually, with risk of higher price.

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                   11. Single Room Supplement

 19-Day Land Single Room Supplement: $999.

• Book this early; single rooms may not be available last minute at all hotels.

• Not cover  single room at Golden Temple atop Mt. Hua. Abbot may have a few single rooms he rents separately.

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                                    12. Tipping Pool

It’s a huge and confusing hassle for everyone to separately tip the dozens of bus drivers, guides, porters who unload bus into hotel lobby.  We simplify by asking everyone in advance to put $100. into a tip pool to cover the entire trip. Averages $5. per day.

You never have to worry about tipping anyone, for the entire trip!

                      WHEN YOU SHOULD TIP

IF you engage a China guide privately for personal service, or ask hotel porter to take your bags to your room, YOU should tip them. The trip leaders will take care of all tipping for everything else, including China guides, from this pool.

I (Michael Winn), and my Warrior Protector, Emerald Winn, do not accept tips.

Please feel free to tip Christopher Kazepis, Assistant Trip Leader. He works very hard!

To be fair to everyone, this Tip Fee is mandatory, but listed separately from Land Costs. It cannot be financed.

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               13. NOT INCLUDED in Land Costs

a. Visa fee, travel insurance, your flight to/from SFO or PVG (if ex-Shanghai).

b. Fuel surcharges from SFO (unlikely). Major currency re-valuation (RMB going up vs. USD) that causes significant price changes before trip begins (very unlikely, China’s currency is more likely to go down).

c. Lunch meal not covered on hiking days on Mt. Hua and free shopping days in Xian or Taipei. Any alcohol drinks at meals (you order & pay separately). Private bottled water outside of glass or one small bottle of soda or water per person served at meals.

d. Private taxis you engage. Private porters you hire. Massage therapists. Private shows advertised by guides. Phone calls from hotel phones or items from hotel refrige, or room service charges. Hotels often give one free bottle of water per day. You do NOT want to drink the tap water.

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14. Extended Payment Plans

Extended payment can be arranged for those who need it. Extensions are funded by my non-profit as part of its mission to keep our spiritual services affordable.

If you feel you are truly supposed to be on this trip, the Healing Tao USA team will help you find a way to go.

• But it’s YOU who must first dream that you are going on this Dream Trip.

Healing Tao USA’s mission to support the evolution of everyone, not just the rich. Our workshops and retreats typically cost one-third the price of most others. 

We have the resources to fund 50% of ex-LAX Land cost of $6,249.

• MAXIMUM FUNDING AMOUNT:  $3,125.

You may choose to fund a lower amount (and reduce interest charge).

• Loan Agreement is not legally enforceable outside the USA. Extension plans for anyone outside the USA are available only to students I know well.

• If you sign an Extended Payment Agreement, the first payment is due on August 1, 2026. If you sign up later than Aug. 1, first payment is due immediately.

No matter how late you sign up, August 1  extended payment will be due before SFO departure.

Please note: AIR cost is NOT being financed.

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                                  Two Extended Pay Options

                    • 6-Month Extension Plan:

a. Pay SIX equal monthly installments of $520. each.

($520. x 6 payments = $3,120.  ($5. short)

b. At end of  month seven, pay one-time  flat 6%  fee of $190.,which covers average 1% interest on total amount + $5. shortfall.

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                 • 12-Month Extended Pay Plan

a. Pay TWELVE equal monthly installments of $260. each.

($260. x 12 payments = $3120.

b. At end of  month thirteen, pay one-time flat 12% fee of $380.

which covers average 1% interest on total amount +  shortfall.

Note: most credit card companies charge 1.5% on unpaid balance.

These are examples of maximum loan amounts.  It could be for any amount.

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                                                 15. List of Balance Due Dates

                                     Calligraphy at Jade Spring Temple, base of Mt. Hua

A. ANYTIME:

• Make $600.  DEPOSIT to reserve a space on the trip,

100% Refundable up to March 1, 2026 (midnight).

Non-refundable after March 1.

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B.  By APRIL 1, 2026

• Pay $2,000. (two thousand) LAND payment. Non-refundable.

• Pay $1,279. ex-Shanghai group AIR price. Non-refundable.

• Pay $2,379. ex-SFO group AIR price. Non-refundable.

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C. By JUNE 1, 2026

• Pay LAND balance due: $3,649. Non-refundable.

Calculate: $6,249. – $600. deposit –  Apr. 1 $2,000. = $3,649.

(adjust for land discounts, $100. tip fee,  Single Room).

 

• If you did NOT pay AIR on April 1, it must be paid by June 1 (at market rate).

• If you chose max Extended Pay ($3,125), your balance is:

$3649. – 3,125  (financed) = $524. due on June 1 (+ other adjustments).

• Extended Payers will make first payment on Aug. 1, 2026.

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16. Cancellation Policy 

                                                 • TRAVEL REALITY IN CHINA: NO REFUNDS

It is simply too difficult to get refunds in China. It’s not worth the time, expense, and trouble.

• No refunds are made for unused excursions, entry fees, missed meals or unused training during the trip.

• NO refunds for termination by a Trip Member AFTER trip begins. Even if a member must involuntarily cancel for physical health reasons AFTER the trip within China has begun, and does not use a portion of their services, NO refunds will be made.

• NO AIR FARE refund will be given AFTER date of first flight.

• There is a slim chance of a PARTIAL air fare refund for cancellation by Member BEFORE the first flight.

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FULL REFUNDS UP TO MARCH 1, 2026

• There is no cancellation fee up to midnight March 1, 2026.

You can put down a $600. deposit (or more) while you figure things out until March 1.

• NO REFUND on land or air costs paid to Healing Tao USA AFTER March 1, 2026, regardless of reason for cancellation by Trip Member.

We pay for bookings far in advance in China to guarantee our group is secure in its travel arrangements.

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                                     IF HEALING TAO USA CANCELS TRIP

If trip is cancelled by Healing Tao USA BEFORE departure date, for reasons beyond Trip Organizer’s control (epidemic, war, terrorism, etc.), you will receive 100% refund on recoverable land costs and whatever can be recovered from airline. We will make best effort, but cannot guarantee full refunds.

AFTER trip begins, Healing Tao USA might have to cancel trip to guarantee safety of Trip Members.  But we cannot take responsibility for acts of God, terrorism, war, health emergency, etc (full legal disclaimer to this effect must be signed by all trip members).

Healing Tao USA has NEVER cancelled a trip. We had to change itinerary mid-trip due to massive earthquake, but everyone was happy in the end.

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 We hope to hear from you soon – that you’re committed, and don’t subconsciously plan to ever cancel. We want  YOU to complete this spiritual adventure of a lifetime!

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                     17. WHY YOU SHOULD GET TRAVEL INSURANCE

• Because of the difficulty to get refunds in China, you are strongly urged to obtain cancellation insurance.

If you do NOT obtain insurance, you must sign a legal Travel Waiver that you understand the potential loss if you get sick or have a family emergency or cancel for any reason.

• We will supply you with a reliable and inexpensive travel insurance option (or you can choose your own). Check the terms and conditions of the issuer of your travel insurance policy as they are defined in the policy’s cancellation clause, which outlines your coverage, its limitations and exclusions.

• Usually a written medical excuse from doctor or proven death in family are accepted.

•  Low cost travel insurance is available to all trip members to cover cancellation costs. The insurance costs much LESS than potential cancellation losses. 

Insurance cost vary widely depending on your age, trip length, dollar amount of coverage you request, including AIR costs of connecting flights.

If you feel the price quote is too expensive, simply lower the amount of your policy.

• Information on a Travel Insurance company that has ALWAYS paid claims in the past will be sent to you once you pay your $600. deposit.

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18. Money Back Guarantee

Sample of a billion dollar refund send to one Dream Tripper. He in fact was quite happy, he just didn’t believe me when I told him the Chinese are printing US dollar bills – in very large denominations.              

These bills are actually used in Chinese ceremonies. They light them on fire and their smoke rises to heaven, alerting the God of Abundance to send down more money, ASAP.

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My official Money Back Guarantee:

On returning home, you will be a very different person!

Tao is about Change. Change is unstoppable.

If you can stop the Tao, and stop yourself from changing. you are beyond immortal and don’t need any money from me.

So my guarantee is backed by the Tao.

My job is to make sure that you change for the BETTER, that you more deeply LOVE  yourself and your life.

You are welcome to file lawsuit against the Tao if you feel your life’s changes are not fair.

I will present your petition to the The Three Pure Ones, at no charge.

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I. How I First Fell in Love with Mt. Hua

Master Stone-of-Perfection and Michael Winn at mouth of Pole Star Cave-Temple. I met Stone on my first trip up Mt. Hua in 1998.

I met him before he left the Quanzhen Order to become a hermit in the remote Pole Star cave-temple.

Master Stone recently  moved down the mountain into Hua shan Village, I suspect to find a wife.

See 14 min. You tube video. I interview Master Stone, last 5 minutes:

https://youtu.be/t-I9GT4Ppjs

(same video is posted in Mt. Hua section above)

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I first climbed Mt. Hua in 1998 – 28 years before the current trip.

While I visit, on a rotating basis, other sacred Tao Mountains on my Dream Trips, they always include Mt. Hua. I’ve visited it about 20 times.

But my desire to visit Mt. Hua began six years before, in 1992. This excerpt from Dream Trippers book describes it well:

“What attracted Winn to Huashan was not the abundant literary references to the sacred mountain. It was the accounts of an old friend, Juan Li (1946–). He was, like Winn, an early student of Mantak Chia, as well as the illustrator of Chia’s book covers and posters.

“Juan Li went on a pilgrimage around China, didn’t speak any Chinese, didn’t have a guidebook. He got a list of sacred mountains and just bumbled his way around China. He spent months taking pictures.

“I saw his pictures of Huashan and immediately fell in love with it. “I’ve got to go there!” I promised myself.

“Juan climbed the mountain like a pilgrimage. Each step was an initiation into the mountain. You were getting the qi of the mountain into your bones and meridians by climbing it.

“By the time you actually climbed it, you had it inside you.. That was a lovely teaching and an inspiration to me.”

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J. More TESTIMONIALS from Dream Trippers

Smiling face of a street food vendor, offering delicious local delicacies

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Thanks for showing the Way to capture the deep chi from China!

I have the most beautiful memories from China….so many great moments, what an incredible trip.   I’ve been reading The Power of Now. I can say that if I’ve ever have been in the NOW,  in peace, in deep connection with nature,  it was the magical Chi of China that got me there.  Those moments and memories makes all my daily hassles worth it.

Thank you for showing the Way to capture this deep chi from China! Thank you for bringing me there …

I Love you Michael. You’ve created with God ‘s and Lao Tzu’s help a great life which I was so fortunate  to share for a few weeks. Know that you are in my living room at least couple of days a week…. at least on your inspiring qigong videos!  – P.V., Florida

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     I loved the everyday authentic encounters!

“This was my 2nd Dream Trip. I didn’t want to leave China (maybe next time I won’t). The rhythm of travel and the energy of China, the succession of encounters that keeps us on our toes, reminds me that it’s fun, that life is play,

I don’t need to take myself so seriously. I feel acutely in the present moment as the road unfolds the energies of the earth and its sacred places.

Sometimes it’s going by so fast we don’t have time to realize how “amazing” it is. Later, after falling into the routine of home, things come back that make me stop and appreciate it all over again, but with a new perspective.

Or as Proust says, that this returning memory is the experience coming to its  full maturity and really felt for the first time; it becomes more real when you remember it. There seems to be a lot more packed into that Dream Trip than I could comprehend as it whizzed by each new day.

Our experiences reverberate into our subsequent lives. My qigong and meditation practice has gained  traction and substance. Something is happening and I feel changed.

My orbit is deeper and more solid-feeling. I fall into qi-pulsations spontaneously at unexpected times, like standing in the grocery checkout line, or on the subway.

I think “shopping qi” is a legitimate thing. I’m glad you pointed it out to us as a powerful spiritual practice to circulate energy between our cultures. As with internal alchemy, a strong center is recommended.

I think I learned to become more free with myself by practicing “money-flow gongfu”. Even going on the trip was already a first step in that training.

I really love the everyday authentic encounters on the trip, the moments that are not scripted. Just the    pulse of life happening and the wonder of it is the air to be enjoyed, the delight of change, feeling welcomed into that flow of Chinese life.

There was something pretty great about our dinner with guides-in-training in Kunming, exchanging cross-cultural views about hot broth and weather.

The girls were adorable, they gave us name cards with special notes written for the occasion: “I love you.” “I miss you.” “Have happy life.” And then, some of them really broke down with sobbing goodbyes. One was gripping my shirt, weeping, not wanting me to leave.

It was a shock. I felt unprepared, unsure how to respond, and also moved by the intensity and openness of this feeling in them. Java also cried saying goodbye at the end of her guiding us. Maybe it’s surprising because I don’t expect Chinese people to be emotionally expressive.

Similarly, in Dali, at a bistro, there was a gorgeous young woman who’d decided to get up and dance with herself. There was music, soft lighting, her dancing was very slow, and as sensuous as I’ve seen anyone anywhere dance. Mesmerizing undulating hips. She’ll have no problem opening qi flow in the orbit. This was erotic and not vulgar.

And this was a young woman in China, in public! Quite the surprise, and even to this day I think of her from time to time. Feeling the magic of her movements, and the self-possessed power in her eyes.”
-Brian B., NYC

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                        Your China Dream Trip taught me to HAVE FUN!

“I arrived in China, but my soul was still asleep. I woke up in Weibaoshan’s Jade Emperor temple! The  Journey became a blissful, incredible, moment-to-moment experience of great love and compassion.

I actually met the Jade Emperor when I prayed to him alone, and gave myself up completely. It was the first time I ever prayed in a Taoist temple. I became transparent and was not afraid to let God, or Original Spirit or whatever people call it see me… all my good, all my bad. In total openness I truly saw my self…

But then some crazy stirrings happened in the lower tan tian. Rumbling, earthquake… explosion in my head. Feeling pressure.. mouth open wide, eyes shut tight, indescribable feelings in whole body… then boom!! It expressed through me as great laughter,

I laughed like never before, my whole body was shaking in laughter, my lungs gasping for breath, my eyes tearing like crazy from laughter… Then crying…like never before crying and crying.. Then dancing and spinning like never before..

I was being guided by some very strong invisible force. Chi? Spirits? I’m not sure what but I felt it hold me in key points on my body as it moved me effortlessly. I was just there watching my body dance in wonder!

Then the strong force made me run outside and dance and sing before everyone I met. I loved everyone and everything!!! Life felt incredible! so fun!!! so amazing!!!!!

I was flying, jumping, doing flips, spinning, and running all over Weibanshan mountain expressing my joy, love and compassion to all! I believe I was taken over by my own spirit. There was nothing that could make it unhappy, I could be slapped in the face, or beat up and I would still be in love and happy!

I was drunk with life! I remember running, hugging and kissing everyone from the group. Some were happy and touched, and some thought I went crazy! Some thought I was possessed – but to me it didn’t matter! I saw and felt so much love and beauty in everyone, I loved everyone so much and wanted to be one with all.

When I got back home, I did primordial chi kung with the intention to connect all the power spots in China, to help bring change, inspiration and new life to Toronto. It was very very gray, dark, lifeless.

During the form, the sun broke through the clouds and shined a bit. When I finished the whole sky was blue with beautiful white clouds, birds were flying and chirping, insects were buzzing, and life seemed to have arrived.. It was just such a wonderful feeling and reponse from nature…

Your China Dream Trip taught me to HAVE FUN in life! Enjoy, relax, be with the flow, be open.. be in the middle.. between and beyond yin and yang…

Also, I really miss the food in China…you picked great restaurants! The food back here is so tasteless and lifeless! I might have to move to China just because the food there was so great, so rich in life and flavour!

The food, the people, the group, and the experiences in the China trip has made me feel and be   younger, more loving and compassionate.. So many incredible positive things have resulted, the list is endless. Thank you so much!
– Teddy C, Toronto (Chinese nationality, 1st time in China)

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               “How did the China Trip change your life?”

Towers on Xian city wall, still intact after 1500 years.

I asked Dream Trippers the question: How did the China Trip change your life?

Note that two Dream Trip members moved to China as a result of the trip! Another one married one of my best guides. (There is still another very pretty one looking for a husband…).

As you can tell from these letters, this trip is not for simple tourists. It’s for people open to accelerated transformation – my definition of inner alchemy.   – Michael Winn

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    I got a much stronger Chi field, Meditation grew much deeper

How did China change me? That is too difficult a question,  My practices, I seem to have acquired a much stronger Chi field.

Meditations have a lot more depth and in some meditations what were just words or thoughts are now strong physical/energetic/spiritual feelings, experiences.

I have a much deeper understanding/connection with my subtle  bodies.

Same with Qigong my arms are moving through a much denser chi field. I find myself experiencing a much deeper experience of Tai Chi. I find it easier and easier to connect with the energies of the cave and various monasteries.

I have had some great experiences connecting with Lao Tzu’s ascension site then taking it into the cave.

I have been working on converting my garage to a practice place. My father pointed out that I was sawing timber in straight lines and hammering nails without bending them (and without hitting my thumb).

This Is most unusual and my father noticed right away. Was it worth it? Absolutely undeniably yes. A great group of people. I look forward to the next trip.

– Tripped Out Dream Tripper

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Your China Dream trip changed my life….. I filed for divorce

Your China Dream trip changed my life. One experience in particular comes to mind. On our first day on Mt. Huashan, I crawled out on a rock ledge and sat there drinking in the beauty of the incredible vista before my eyes. I was looking down on the tops of clouds.

I didn’t have anything particular in mind, just a little rest and a few moments of solitude to drink in the beauty before me.

I easily settled into meditating and immediately began to feel so light. Quite spontaneously, fears, the    existence of which I had never fully acknowledged, surfaced and were released down into the emptiness in front of me along with more than a few tears.

In that moment, on that ledge up above the clouds, I knew I was no longer able to settle for less than living my life fully. ..

Days after returning from China, I filed for divorce, something I had been trying to do for years. It was  a peaceful parting. Thank you so very much for all you did to make that trip an incredible experience for everyone involved. You did a fabulous job!

– Wowie from Maui

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The places you chose were powerful and spectacular!

Just writing to thank you for organizing the trip to China. I had an amazing time! I met a lot of fun and interesting people, ate a lot of great food, and the places you chose were powerful and spectacular.

Thanks to you my entire life is about to undergo a huge change. I will be moving to Chengdu in Sichuan province in January, and living in China for at least a year to learn the language at Sichuan University.

After that, who knows, the possibilities are endless! Thank you Michael, I hope to meet you again. I hope your life has changed for the better as radically as mine. (Note: this young Australian did move back to China and married my Chinese tour guide!)

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   China was extraordinary…still swirling in the Richness

China was an extraordinary trip for me! I am still swirling in the experience and richness of it all! My world feels much bigger and at the same time, the exquisite sameness of all people is resonating throughout my being. I will try to get some words down to describe some of it before too long, but meanwhile wanted to thank you! –  Jonathan G.

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    Everyone on the trip was an inspiration for me

I do think about the group often. I don’t take it lightly. Our time together was important to me. Being a novice at these practices. I wish I had consulted with you more on your experience. Our time together was short but intense.

There wasn’t a person on the trip that wasn’t an inspiration for me. But I do feel lucky with my roommate, as he was my greatest inspiration. Nothing bothered this guy, and I found myself doing meditation on that. What kind of attitude would a person need to have this positive way of looking at things, events, life? Thanks!

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   My shaman says I am “more myself”

Here are my life changes after China:

immediately after the trip I began to realize that the JUDGMENTS I have are just my judgments. I can now feel the separation they create. And now know that its not the way things and people really are my main Tango dancing partner told me I was DANCING better because I am softer and more relaxed!

Several friends are saying that my VOICE on the phone has become softer, slower, somehow changed.
My shaman says I am “more myself” – whatever she means by this. I can feel what these feedbacks are referring to and I’m happy about it. – Lucy J.

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    I Met God Atop Mt. Huashan

After successfully reaching the Peaks of Mt Huashan, I felt re-empowered, that Life was not over for me at my age….. that I could still do more with my life. The connections I felt during primordial qigong allowed me to feel my goal of connection to God (within) is possible. Primordial is extremely powerful

…. not just arm waving. I made new friends, and plan to visit them. I have really come to appreciate the Chinese people and their lifestyle. I love Temple of Heaven park and all the people there, just hanging out. – Divinely Grateful

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Most Special was Bonding with Others…I’m a loner at heart

The most special part of the trip was bonding with others and sharing laughs in our group. Christina and I bonded immediately as if we had known each other our whole lives.

We stayed awake each night sharing our experiences of the day and talking about everybody. We giggled like little school girls and wondered how Michael paired us up so perfectly…???

I am a loner at heart, but I so enjoyed my time with everyone. I grew to love many of you. Memories spent together still pop into my head out of nowhere, and I and miss everyone. Michael,

I told you that Huashan was difficult for me, but I knew one day I would be grateful. When I returned, I had lost 10 pounds and got my high school wash-board belly back!  – B.G.  San Francisco

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       My Friends sense a profound change in me…. I’m positive an Immortal is present

Things were definitely rocky the first couple weeks after the trip. I was physically in Los Angeles, but I was mentally and spiritually back in China.

I still float off to the caves, the various peaks at Huashan and other places whenever time and situations allow. My wife will often ask me where I am if I’m being quiet, and the reply is always the same – China.

All my computer desktop pictures are China pics. Amazingly, I find little pieces of everyone I met in China here at home, reflections of you all.

One of the people I train with could be Russell’s little brother, another reminds me of our lovely guide Cherry. I try to bring Teddy’s excitement on Weibaoshan to all the Tai Chi classes that I teach.

The few lessons I received from the monks have served me well and my own Tai Chi is really rocking lately. Like many I think I’m still digesting it all and lessons I didn’t understand or even realize were happening now surface when I least expect it.

The spiritual awakening I experienced  doing tsunami relief work in Sri Lanka was really kicked into overdrive in China.

I came back from China a much calmer, more well balanced person. Situations that might have resulted in arguments or just general negativity now bring on compassion. And if I am brought to the darkness of anger I’m immediately embarrassed and sorry.

I’ve had a couple moments where I’m positive an immortal is present. Words of encouragement from people I’ve never met from out of the blue or just a simple look in the eyes of a passing stranger. I know, that sounds nuts.

But the overwhelming rush of emotion in these situations and the sense of peace that consumes me after it’s passed are very powerful.

My friends have sensed profound change in me as well but I realize I’m very much a work in progress. I’m already on the list for the next China trip as is another Tai Chi student from my school. I’m still getting used to the new me, but I like the changes so far.  – A Taoist Changling, N.Y.C.

 

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