In India, kundalini is symbolized by a snake uncoiling through the chakras.
In China, it’s a dragon spiraling between Earth to Heaven and back.
In ancient Egypt, it was a serpent projected out the Pharoah’s Third Eye.
There is a lot of confusion, fear, and stories about people suffering from an “energetic nightmare” caused by qigong or yogic practice gone awry. I had a dramatic kundalini awakening myself, so I know this terrain from the inside and the outside. I used qigong & inner alchemy to ground the kundalini.
“Qi deviation” is a concept that describes an imbalance or disruption of the body’s energy flow, called qi. It can lead to psychotic symptoms while, in reality, it’s associated with physical and psychological issues like pain, fatigue, brain fog, and anxiety resulting from incorrect meditation or cultivation practices.
VIDEO LINK & more info is listed after the 3 Spring & 5 Summer Tao Events!
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SPRING 2026 Tao Events
1) March 14 – 15, 2026 (Sat/Sun 9 – 6 pm)
Fusion of Five Elements 1
Emotional Alchemy
Dissolve Negativity & Cultivate Original Feeling of Self-Love. Create an Elixir-Pearl to Store Spiritual Essences
Practical Emotional Inner Alchemy methods for managing the feeling layer of the personal Energy Body. This is part of One Cloud’s foundational Inner Alchemy Formula.
It integrates 5 phase Qi cycles in your emotions with your
biological and spiritual life. I have evolved this material to include “Taoist Depth Psychology” more suitabel
for Westerners.
Learn to control your inner psychic weather, nurture your inner powers and natural virtues, andespecially how to “eat” or dissolve negative emotion and egoic reactivity. Find out where your feelings
originate and their true purpose.
Learn to reverse the loss of Qi flowing out thru your senses, how to alchemically gather an Inner Pearl, the
essence of your original self. Very powerful tools for working on yourself, and centering the energy body.
Course is mostly meditation, plus “Nourish the Five Shen” Qigong for emotional body. Pre-req: Fundamentals 1 & 2, live or audio-video. Good to have Fundamentals 3 & 4 if possible, the rooting is key to managing emotions. But it’s not a pre-requisite.
I strongly recommend adepts learn Fusion 1 before diving deep into sexual energy cultivation practices. if you don’t learn to manage your emotions, sexual energy can amplify buried chronic stuck or trauma patterns and amplify them – a very uncomfortable process.
Contact: info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net or call 828-338-8496 office manager
Location: Michael Winn’s home in Asheville, N.C. Quiet, secluded, with a Crystal Stone Circle & spectacular views of Blue Ridge Mountains.
After you register, directions will be sent to you. If you plan to rent an Air B&B for the weekend, there are many within short distance.
Cost: $144.
Price not raised in 30 years. Based on Sacred Number: 9 spiral alchemy + I Ching 4 Yin and 4 Yang Trigrams (“Cosmic Winds of Change”) + Great Oneness / Mother of All Things.
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2) March 21, 2026 Saturday 7:15 – 10 pm
(FREE EVENT)
Spring Equinox
Green Dragon of the East Ceremony
& Crystal Bowl Sound Alchemy Concert
by Michael Winn
• Exact Equinox: is late evening of March 20. 2024
A very powerful Equinox to supercharge whatever you want to GROW.
– One hour sitting meditation
– Location Michael Winn’s home.
Driving directions will be sent.
Wear Green clothing item.
Create INTENT (affirmation + strong feeling) what you want to GROW.
Bring a healthy refreshment.
RSVP REQUIRED.
email: info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net.
828-338-8496, text or call office manager Geoffrey Bernard
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3) May 23 – 24, 2026: Sat/Sun, 9 am – 6 pm
Fusion of Five Elements 2 & 3
Psychic & Soul Alchemy
Open Macro Orbit – The 8 Extraordinary Vessels linked into a single flow of Soul Qi
Internal bagua (octagonal energy shape) stabilizes the 8 Extraordinary Vessels
Secrets of growing a powerful Energy Body[br]• Supercharge spine in spirals of golden light
• Open thrusting, belt, arm & leg channels
• Heal chronic illness & deep pre-natal trauma
• 8 Extraordinary Vessels Qigong (on DVD)
• Pangu Mystical Qigong (on DVD)
Full description of 9 Major Benefits of Fusion 2 & 3:
https://healingtaousa.com/fusion2.html
The 8 Extra Vessels connect the inner and outer Qi field, and allow you to “dance” between your inner soul and outer personality’s life. The Wudang Mountain version of the macro-cosmic orbit is the most powerful internal method
I’ve found for integrating 8 Extra Vessels into a continuous flowing circuit.
This Wudang Mountain version of the macro-orbit lays a foundation for opening Qi flow between the 8 Original Forces of Universe (I Ching 8 trigram – 8 tones or “8 cosmic winds”). A powerful “8 Extra Vessels” qigong form makes this practice simple to remember. It heals deep psychic imbalances not reached by acupuncture.
Many mysterious chronic illnesses can be healed at this deep channel level, much faster than using acupuncture or herbs working on the 12 regular meridians.
This opening of Qi flow in the Eight Extra channels links your pre-natal and post-natal energy bodies, i.e. the deep structure of how you birth yourself each moment. This is why the training also opens up psychic abilities.
These abilities are simply the result of having clear channels for communication between the soul and the
personality.
We’ll learn to purify our aura & regulate our Energy Body with belt & thrusting channels.
We’ll give and Receive Qi from the environment with Positive & Negative Arm & Leg channels.
Another practice taught is my “9 Spirals of the Energy Body” in the four directions to integrate he Five Shen with the Five Directional Dragons. This practice connects the internal flow of your macro-cosmic orbit out to the edge of the universe and back! A wonderfully empowering and healing journey.
This course lays a strong foundation for Healing Love and Water & Fire (Kan & Li) Inner Sexual Alchemy.
$144. for weekend, $90. reviewers.
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Pre-req:
Microcosmic Orbit & 6 Healing Sounds (Qigong Fundamentals 1 & 2), live or by home study. You can learn the energy channel work of Fusion 2/3 without doing the emotional body/inner pearl work of Fusion 1. But it is optimal to first learn Fusion 1.
Contact: 828-338-8496, office manager
email: info.healingtaousa@earthlink.net
Location: Michael Winn’s home in Asheville, N.C.
Quiet, secluded, with a Crystal Stone Circle & spectacular views of Blue Ridge Mountains .
After you register, directions will be sent to you.
If you plan to rent an Air B&B for the weekend, there are many within short distance.
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FUSION HOME STUDY Courses
Can’t make it to a live workshop? Get the home study course. It’s cheapest to get the entire Fusion1-2-3 audio-dvd package:
Fusion 1 Audio only, hard-shipped, refundable. This page has the fullest description of course details:
https://healingtaousa.com/product/fusion-of-five-elements-1-emotional-alchemyaudio-cds/
Refundable hard shipped package: Fusion 1-2-3:
https://healingtaousa.com/product/fusion-of-the-five-elements-1-2-3-digital-packageemotional-psychic-alchemyaudio-cds-8-extra-vessels-qigong-dvd/
Non-refundable instant download Fusion 1-2-3: https://healingtaousa.com/product/fusion-of-five-elements-1-2-3-download-package/
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Summer 2026: 5 Tao Retreats
Healing Tao University, Asheville N.C.
https://healingtaousa.com/healing-tao-retreats/
Geoffrey Bernard Registrar
828-338-8496 (cell) or info.HealingTaoUSA@earthlink.net
- Weekly Tuition only $695. – an incredible value!
- Discounts for multiple retreats, Jr/Sr., foreigner, instructor
- Book your own housing (Air B&B) & meals (address given when you register)
- Plan to arrive Friday afternoon in Asheville, meet 7 pm Friday to start retreat. End following Wednesday at noon.
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Week 1: June 19 – 24, 2026 (Fri-Wed)
a. Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals
1- 4+ Summer Solstice Ceremony
by Michael Winn video
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Week 2: June 26 – July 1, 2026 (Fri-Wed)
Week 4: July 10 – 15, 2026 (Fri-Wed)
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Week 5: July 17 – 22, 2026 (Fri-Wed)
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VIDEO:
Qi Deviation & Kundalini: Diagnosis & Treatment
Treating imbalanced energy can involve a combination of methods, such as returning to corrective qigong, herbal remedies, acupuncture, and lifestyle changes.
Over the years in my private qigong therapy practice, I have helpedmany people with Qi Deviation. When this information appeared online, I became busier than I would have liked. It is surprisingly common, more so in Indian-yogic traditioin than in Taoist qigong.
This video was recorded for a National Qigong Association (NQA) Qi Talks, hosted by Vicki Dello Joio. I share my knowledge gained over many decades, and examine the diverse medical, cultural, and spiritual factors involved.
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VIDEO LINK: 40 min. talk + Q&A
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Blessings on Our Life Flow of Harmonious Qi,
Michael Winn
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Michael Winn has decades of
international teaching experience in Tao medical, martial, & spiritual arts.
He was a founder and two-term President,
National Qigong Association (NQA).
He founded Healing Tao University,
the largest Tao arts summer program
in the West, now in the Blue Ridge
Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.
He is president of the non-profit Dao Alchemy Research Institute, was founder and 9 years Chairman of the Healing Tao Instructor’s Association, and co-founder of the Council of 9 of the Universal Healing Tao (abroad).
He has taught on five continents and at
Omega’s Super Qi Summits. He regularly speaks at international conferences of Taoist/Daoist scholars and is on the
editorial board of the Journal of Daoist Studies.
Winn has authored ten Tao home study video-audio courses, written dozens of articles, book chapters, and papers at conferences. He is co-author or the actual writer of Mantak Chia’s first 7 books, including the classic Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy.
His ebooks include Way of the Inner Smile,
Five Animals Qigong, and Primordial Tai Chi
and Tao Inner Alchemy:Way of Whole-Body Enlightened Self-Love (forthcoming in digital “Seven Bamboo Scrolls”.
He is also on the boards of cutting edge green tech and cyber-security companies, and raises funding for projects focused on human longevity and self-empowerment.
Winn lives in a simple log home in the mountains near Asheville, N.C.
His 10-year old son gives him daily lessons
in wu wei (Tao of spontaneous action) and periodically beats him at Chess.
Winn does private live session or by phone for his students.
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