Are you interested in becoming a Healing Tao Instructor?
Welcome to the wonderful path of sharing the Tao, the Natural Way to health and spiritual wholeness!!
Healing Tao USA is eager to train more Instructors in the Taoist movement, healing, and meditation arts. We feel this is one of the most worthwhile things a person can do with their life — empower others to become more healthy and live in greater peace, harmony and balance. Michael Winn was one of the first Senior Instructors in the Healing Tao.
There are many “methods” available in the modern Tao marketplace. But there are very few complete “systems” that guide your growth for an entire lifetime.
Healing Tao USA offers a direct and natural path to fulfilling both your worldly and your spiritual destiny. It focuses on what is practical and most effective. No dogma, no gurus, no hierarchy of priests, no “master” title allowed in the Healing Tao USA system. A wide variety of trainings that let you focus on what suits your nature best. Movement or meditation, healing or self-defense – it’s your choice, after you cover the basics.
Healing Tao USA is a 501c3 religious tax exempt organization.T aoism is both a religion, practical Way of life, and a spiritual philosophy. Certification as instructor does carry religious ordination privileges if you choose to perform weddings, birth blessings, funeral services, avoid vaccinations, seek conscientious objector status, etc.
Winn founded the Healing Tao Instructor’s Association (HTIA) serving North and South America in 1991 at the request of Mantak Chia. Healing Tao USA (HTUSA) is the HTIA’s most active member – over 250 instructors certified. Both the HTUSA and the HTIA are a 501c3, non profit, instructor-owned, legally independent of Mantak Chia and the Universal Healing Tao (UHT). UHT is a spinoff (or “child”) of the HTIA, which developed the original Tao instructor certification standards. .The UHT mostly serves Europe and Asia.
Both the HTIA and HTUSA accept hour-credits from courses taught by UHT instructors. Overseas students may also join directly the HTIA or HTUSA to get their many benefits, low-cost overseas dues ($25/yr) and more democratic, instructor self-governed organization structure.
ASSOCIATE INSTRUCTOR:
The “fast track” training program is to first become an Associate Instructor. That certifies you to teach the Qigong Fundamentals: Inner Smile, Six Healing Sounds, Microcosmic Orbit, and core qigong.
You receive a Healing Tao USA Certificate that is co-issued with the Healing Tao Instructor’s Association (HTIA). You will be eligible to join the HTiA (USA residents $45./year, foreigners 25./year.
BENEFITS:
Associate Certification carries these same benefits as Full Instructor Certification:
- $75. discount on each Healing Tao USA summer retreat you take.
- 40% discount on wholesale purchase (5 of any item) of Michael Winn products
- Add a meaningful second career with income – while working on your own health & spiritual evolution!
- advertising and referral system support for promoting your website and classes
- Respect of belonging to the oldest Taoist organization and lineage in the West.
- feeling of belonging to a really fun, enlightened spiritual community, energetically backing you wherever you go on the planet (or the inner planes!)
- Trademark protection for all your “Healing Tao” courses (must pay HTIA dues to have this).
- Your students get “credit hours” towards certification within Healing Tao system – which helps boost enrollment.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 35 hours live training in Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 1-4. (= 1 week retreat or 3 weekends) or other basic Tao courses approved by your Senior Instructor mentor.
- 35 hours in: Iron Shirt Qigong 2&3, Fusion of Five Elements 1-3, Healing Love (Taoist Sexology), Primordial Tai Chi/Qigong or Tai Chi Qigong 1, Chi Nei Tsang 1, Tao Yin, A one day workshop = 8 hours credit). You MUST include Fusion 1 training (taught by Winn every spring in Asheville, NC)..
- If you do not live within 2 hours drive of a teacher, you may use Winn’s homestudy weeklong retreats for 38 hours of credits, or 16 hours of weekend workshop credit.
- One year’s practice. Advanced students may have this reduced by Senior permission.
- 38 hours of live training in the Qigong Fundamentals 1-4 (a.k.a. Tao Basics) with a Senior Instructor.
These requirements can be met by:
- Attending Michael Winn’s Fall and spring weekend workshops in Asheville (click on link)
- Attending summer retreats in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains (each retreat counts as 35 hours).
See www.HealingTaoRetreats.com - Attend trainings of other certified instructor of Healing Tao or Universal Tao (abroad).
FULL INSTRUCTOR:
For full description of Certification Requirements in each kind of qigong or meditation level, set by the Healing Tao Instructor’s Association of the Americas (HTIA) please see: Healing Tao Instructor Certification Requirements
