China Tour
May 3 - 23, 2018

with Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD

Heavenly Hangzhou • Wudang Mountains • Flower Mountain - Hua Shan • Beijing

 

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Inspiring Dragon Well Tea Fields of Hangzhou, China's Imperial Capital in the Song Dynasty

 

The IIQTC Golden Elixir of Longevity and Immortality Tour

Hangzhou — China Culture — Called Heaven on Earth

The imperial capital of the Song Dynasty and the home of the renaissance of Inner Elixir Alchemy over 1000 years ago. At the foot of ranges of mountains where the enlightened dwell. Qigong, Tai Chi, art, tea, temples, calligraphy, West Lake. There is a famous saying, "If you cannot go to Heaven, or even if you can — you must go to Hangzhou." We prepare to go deeper into China's sacred mountains and deeper into the essence of self.

Wudang Mountains — Wudang Shan — Wonderland of Elixir Alchemy

The birthplace of original Tai Chi which began as a very refined form of Internal Elixir Alchemy and eventually became a martial art was week as a contemporary healing art. Wudang is such a rarified atmosphere - inspiring teachings, tea, calligraphy, sacred mountains, incredible temples, beautiful natural sites. In Wudang all the cultivation arts, philosophy, medicine, spirituality integrate into the Wudang Marvel. We prepare ourselves to touch Heaven at Hua Shan – Flower Mountain.

Flower Mountain — Hua Shan — Ascend to Heaven

An ancient center for seekers of insight, revelation and immortality. The highest of the Sacred Daoist Mountains --- if you are inclined to do so, we will touch Heaven. Home of some of the great Qigong breakthroughs dating back two thousand years – originally a site of Daoist spiritual heritage and alchemical and herbal elixir traditions, Hua Shan and the Jade Spring Temple at site base, in the Song Dynasty became the hermitage for Chen Tuan the great alchemist and immortal who developed Sleep and Dream Qigong. Then we begin to prepare for our final days' stay in China.

Before the Beginning — Prepare Yourself

As IIQTC graduates you have – perhaps -- been practicing and even teaching. Imagine deepening your practice by wandering and wondering in the homeland of cultivation practice. Because you are familiar with Qigong and Tai Chi, profoundly deepening practices are already within your reach. Consider accelerating your practice now in preparation. You may want to refresh your connection with the Daodejing, the I-Ching, and the Secret of the Golden Flower. Also, Chinese sacred mountains are especially known for their thousands of steps. It is prudent to prepare by getting extra exercise and extra rest.

A Key to This Journey

You are always invited to take days off if you wish, go off on your own if you wish, skip an activity if you wish. The invitation is to use this journey as a kind of supreme healing and transformation experience. Coming from our homes to our rendezvous point in China, we will orient and commence our group practice in Hangzhou - to refine the internally realized Golden Elixir. In a way, we are crossing thresholds into a transformational zone. In Beijing, we will be encountering some ancient sites in a super contemporary environment. It is another threshold, back to the very complex world of international social, political and economic forces. You may want to take it easy.

These locations and intriguing atmospheres are profound, however, this is the heart of our adventure — to sojourn beyond even these locations and atmospheres through the portal of the engaged and purposeful HeartMind to the essence of self. These atmospheres and experiences are intended as leverage for the very personal and transforming journey that each of us is on to realize — that is to make real — our most refined destiny.


The Heavenly Gateway to the Temple of the Daoist Immortality Master of the Golden Elixir
These stops are profound — however here is the heart — a sojourn beyond this world!


The Essence of This Incredible Journey

There is a marvel buried in the practices we teach.

While it is correct that we are activating healing mechanisms in the body and mind, there is more!

The ancient sages suggest that we are a actually revealing a natural presence - inherent wellbeing - opening a portal to the eternal aspect of self, kind of personal Alchemy to create The Golden Elixir of Longevity and Immortality.

Do we really learn Qigong and Tai Chi to exercise?

Of course, we and our students, do want to feel more well and we know that the human system makes the most profound medicine ever known -- within.

What an amazing mystery!


You can not buy this medicine, you can only produce it for FREE!

As amazing as this is — the deeper purpose of Qigong and Tai Chi is to reveal, cultivate and sustain an association with deep peace by gaining greater understanding of the truth of our nature.

This journey is not just a visit to an interesting international destination. It is also a journey into your deep self, beyond the boundary of the usual. Further refining the cultivation of our Qi and character, to venture purposefully into the neglected territory of the eternal - immortal - self.

A journey like this can not be found in the public domain. We have been to China nine times previously. Every time we refine and go deeper. With Dana Xu, an amazing guide that I have known now for 25 years, who herself is a seeker, we have found places and people — wizards -- that can not be found by any mainstream travel organization.

WE ARE GOING TO CHINA TO DEEPEN and TRANSMUTE!

Our trip will certainly be a fantastic tour of locations rarely explored by tourists in China. However the intent is that it also be a magical mystery tour in China that leads deep into the mystery of being. And, do allow it to be a time of personal retreat and reflection. It will definitely be an opportunity to deepen your practice and use the learning of new forms to enrich understanding of your practice and teaching. OR -- it can be all of these, they overlap.

The key point is — you can use this journey however you wish. In the Integral Way – each person unfolds in their own way at their own pace and expectations are minimal. You are invited to, with clear communication with the guides and assistants – participate in all or some of the planned activities, sleep in, rest, explore on your own, study, write, dream. Perhaps, some wandering on your own is the elixir. We will even be learning, should you wish to explore sleep and dream in the ways of the ancient wizards of dream and restoration Qigong.

Where and what is the ultimate elixir anyway? It can not be purchased, it can only be cultivated. This is an integral journey – the planning is all to support you in integrating deeply.

Going deeper, into the mystery of what we understand as "cultivation", there is a gateway of wonder — a portal to the amazing realm of our own immortality, eternal nature, invincible essence. How do we access this, given our students and even ourselves are caught in the web of the apparent world? It can only occur through a radical deepening. Such a deepening can occur eventually without going anywhere. AND YET, such a deepening can be leveraged and accelerated by sojourning into unfamiliar atmospheres and locations that are infused with the energetics and the secrets of the nature of nature and the nature of self!

As a Graduate of the IIQTC, an explorer of the Integral Way or Integral Ideal, you are probably cultivated enough to further deepen your cultivation in a rarified environment. This sojourn to the Middle Kingdom — China — is intended as a sojourn more deeply into the center of being, toward what is called the Mysterious Pass — the portal to the Immortal Self.

Create a Deep Group Experience with IIQTC As You
Cultivate Qi at Traditional Power Spots

Then on this sojourn we will continue to work with and add to our experience with:

  • Powerful group practice in inspiring locations;
  • Learning rich new forms of Qigong, including Hun Yuan Qigong, Universal Origin Practice practices, to gain new insights;
  • An exploration of the contribution of tea to cultivation, rest and restoration;
  • A philosophical journey into classics -- I-Ching (Yijing), Daodejing (Tao Te Ching), and Secret of the Golden Flower,
  • Study original Tai Chi from the legendary developer, Zhang San Feng (Chang San Feng), from the Wudang Sacred Daoist Mountain region;
  • Study with our revered teacher from Wudang, Zhou Jin Bo, in the spiritually transformative Wudang mountain atmosphere;
  • Explore the territory of the enlightenment of the original Wudang Monk/Hermit/Wizard Zhen Wu – Xuan Wu;
  • Enchanting energy vortexes of the Wudang Temples;
  • Meet the Living, Cave Dwelling Immortal Master Jiaye;
  • The Qigong of the revered Monk/Immortal Chen Tuan and his Sleep and Dream Qigong plus his revered Six Harmonies Qigong, a matrix of personal Alchemy to refine the Golden Elixir;
  • Rest and reflection at the Jade Spring Monastery;
  • Ascent of the peaks of the highest Dao mountain, Hua Shan — Flower Mountain — and literally touch heaven. The mountain and its peaks, are the earthly, geological Golden Flower:
  • Beijing, Great Wall, and More!

NOTE:

You are invited to, with clear communication with the guides and assistants – participate in all or some of the planned activities, sleep in, rest, explore on your own, study, write, dream. Your Personal Elixir -- could be a rest day, perhaps napping Qigong or perhaps some wandering on your own.

 

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