Michael Winn

Mage,
I doubt those old posts are getting a lot of traffic. I really am busy. I think your post here announcing that you’ve changed your view is sufficient. The posts are under a pen name and will not influence your public life.
So I ask you to simply accept atht you’ve changed and post accordingly in the future – create a new reality, let…[Read more]

Trunk,
It’s totally true – the oceans of suffering from past generations are vast. I’ve mostly tapped into this through my wife, who seems particularly sensitive to ancestral issues and opens easily into that ocean of collective pain. It seems like she is drowning in it, but then somehow always learns to swim back into light and joy. A tough…[Read more]

Iintelligence,
its people like you and others on this forum who are ahead of the general masses – but that is how the pathways tothe future are laid down. When I started withyoga in New York in the 70’s it was totally underground. now even Christians allow it routines in their church centers….

I appreciate your becoming so much more…[Read more]

Nice summary of the confusing distinction made betweeen morality and virtue by the Taoists. They would also give virtue some ontological existence, i.e. having its own essence/jing, not mrerely appearing as a transitory emotion or feeling but a real substance that generates those feelings.
michael

These are a braod range of questions that boil down to one issue: is the “gold” cultivated in internal alchemy real?

Its ahrd to discuss this until oen agrees on a language and gives “reality” to the concepts such as “soul” or “spirit”. without that, the only reality is abstract speculation about concepts.

My experience is that “gold”…[Read more]

Re: Qigong Movements as effects rather than causes
From: jimbo

>I can agree with the notion that it works both ways. What I have trouble with is that a given motion creates an effect…

>And that brings me to the heart of what i’m suggesting: it’s not the movement that does the healing/opening/energizing. It’s the intention. The movement…[Read more]

Catherine,
thanks for your post. I invite you to share your explorations further.

For myself, I found it necessary to not mix the hindu term Chakra (“wheel”)
and chinese Dantian/TanTien which means “Field of the “Elixir”. They refer in each culture to different energetic patterns.

The classical description of three dantian and seven…[Read more]

Thanks for finding another interesting piece. Do you have a source/URL for the piece?
michael

TAke his fuison course this summer at Heavenly Mtn.
A retreat setting is much more powerful and deep experience of a teacher and the group’s chi field.
michael

Hmmmm “ciao, Sophia” sounds very Italian….perhaps a soul product of that sensuous italian landscape?

If you publish, or have published, be sure to let us know, there is no keeping secrets about that!

I have found some ways recently to amke the Sun-Moon journey easier and deeper, the last mexico retreat new things “surfaced”, seems we can’t…[Read more]

Dear Sophia,

Welcome to this forum! I’ve been absent recently due to time pressures, but am really pleased to have another enlightened female voice here (unless you are a man posing as Sophis/Wisdom….but it doesn’t feel like it).

I completely agree with Shapiro’s viewpoint, and may actually publish a different version of the…[Read more]

Webmaster is supposed to be posting revised pdf’s of ne brochure today or tomorrow.

we had to re-do brochure, so things are running late. Still cleaning up the old website – the prices and short downloadedable schedule is correct, meanwhile.

appreciate your patientce, and your interest.
michael

John,
The only place you’ll get hsing I, bagua, and higher level martial arts (northern wu taiji) is at the summer retreats at heavenly Mtn. in Norht Carolina.
It’s why I brought in Frank Allen and Tina Zhang – they spend a lot of time in china chasing after lineage holders and have integrated martial arts and spiritual practice. This year…[Read more]

sounds like the group experience in mexico during sun moon earth alchemy retreat.

I noticed it is getting easier to take folks in deep, and that deep earth is becoming more acessible to us surface creatures.

great adventure!

michael

it seems how we relate to and embrace “space” is the funamental in any type of freedom.
Hope your quest for new oute rspace in your ex-marriage leads to opening new inner space.

I think we need to test both boundaries to unfold ourselves.

Breathing free,
michael

Brian,
It is the same basic schedule at Heavenly Mountain.
Register Friday afternoon, have dinner around 6:30 pm, and then have a 2-3 hour class after dinner.
End at Wed. lunch.

My webmaster is finally getting the http://www.HealingTaoRetreats.com page updated. The schedule is now accurate (but missing some weekend options, soon to be added),…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your journey, I am sure you will open new pathways for others.

With such powerful earth changes happening, don’t be surprised to find yourself surfing into new dimensions of yourself and wondering where your New Earth will be. But really, there is no “where willI be”, that is an unfolding mirage that offers creative tension…[Read more]

This is an issue of semantics (the meaning of language), but I think you are raising a valid issue. Do we start with integrating our conscious side, or focusing on the unconscious/dark side. It’s not really a linear/time choice. The more that either side is integrated, the whole is integrated, and we deepen the process of whole-body enlightenment.…[Read more]

I knew that you would not mind. Someone was desperate to learn. A woman, with pretty brown yes, pleading. So I said yes, that I would give her your spot at the retreat.

then she confessed she did not have the full money to pay for the retreat. I knew that you were such a generous person that you wouldn’t mind also that I donated your payment…[Read more]

It could be said that most people are slowly committing suicide via their lifestyle, and killing those around them by negative resonance.

I don’t think the longevity benefits are at all limited to the higher practices. I think the foundation meditations and movement practices are the linchpin of physical longevity. The higher practices let you…[Read more]