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Silent Ground Retreats
is a holistic training and has been offering retreats for over 20 years. Annual Retreats take place in beautiful rural locations such as Bird Cove (Read Island) Cortes Island and Quadra Island. Immerse yourself in sacred, peacful places for integral transformation.
We also offer weekly classes, workshops, private sessions and bodywork in Vancouver, BC.

Tao Alchemy Training
Practice Tao yoga, Chi Kung (Qigong), and Meditation for a amazing awakening and rejuvenating experience. Give yourself time to deeply explore your inner life. Connect with and absorb nature's splendour and pure energy. Learn tools to tune up your Energy Body so you can vibrate in resonance with your Source.
Accelerate your growth! meditative lifestyle

Apprenticeship Program and Certification as:
Healing Tao Assocotate Instructor
Tao Yoga Instructor
Feminine Treasures Instructor

Minke de Vos, Senior Universal Tao Instructor
is the Director of Silent Ground Retreats in Vancuver BC. Minke has devoted over 20 years to the practice of internal arts. She has worked alongside Mantak Chia since 1983. She has a wide range of energetic and Spiritual skills and a reputation as a top teacher of gigong, healing and women's sexuality. Practitioners of all levels benefit from her creative teaching style, with its focus on living a vital, loving and passionate life.

articles by Minke:
Heart Chi Kung
Healing my Heart

         
   

   Silence your mind in the
  
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Weekly Classes
in Vancouver March 30 - June 3 more info
Contact Minke to register for classes

 

Feminine Treasures Mondays 7 - 8:30 pm The Cauldron, West End
Tao Yoga Tuesdays 12 - 1:30 pm The Cauldron
Wu Wei Chi Kung Wednesdays 7 - 8:30 pm The Cauldron
Tai Chi Chi Kung Thursdays 10 - 11 am Stanley Park, May 14- 21
Course descriptions      

 

 

Special Events in Vancouver
Contact Minke to register for special events

Vancouver

The International Institute of Medical Qigong and Henan University presents
Medical Qigong Practitioner Training
with Wendy Lang MMQ, Master of Medical Qigong
The Medical Qi Gong Practitioner program is presented in a series of four 5 day workshop intensives, from Sept. - June on Vancouver Island.
This traininig will be back in Vancouver fall 2010 - spring 2011. Please sign up in advance.

This in-depth training includes: intuitive energy bodywork, specific movements for different conditions, and the spiritual roots of acupuncture and oriental medicine.
Excellent tools for bodyworkers, acupuncturists, and other health practitioners.

Open House Join in on our meditation and Qigong practice, Saturday, May 30, 9 - 10:30 am.

Rosicrucian Hall, 809 West 23rd Ave, (side entrance on Willow St.), 2 blocks east of Oak St.
Register: 604-669-2505

www.emptymountain.com
www.medicalqigong.org

more info
poster
for intro evening

Seattle

Five Element Body Prayer

Workshop with Master Teachers
Kitty Wittkower & Minke de Vos

Integrating Self through Qigong & Yoga

Time TBA, Ballard Healing Center

Connect your bodymind with the healing energy of the Divine

Bone Breathing Fri 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Five Element Qigong & Yoga Sat 1 - 6 pm
Feminine Treasures Sun 10 am - 4 pm

Register: Kitty 206-380-029 templeparlor@hotmail.com more info

Vancouver

Feminine Treasures workshop more info

Taoist Yoga for Women's Wellness
with Senior Universal Tao Instructor Minke de Vos
Cultivate Female Sexual Energy to Grow Love, Beauty and Vitality


Sunday, Sept. 27, 11 am - 6pm
Lunch included.

Inner Sanctuary, Sunshine Coast, BC
$120, $80 for students, seniors and low income
www.innersanctuary.ca

Vancouver

Sacred Dance Festival

Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009
Interspiritual Celebration!

Inquire about volunteer positions.
details to come

 

Vancouver

Evolving Love! Chant Dance more info

Saturday, May 16, 7:30 - 9:30 pm, at St. Mark's Trinity Church
Experience Moods of Love through singing and dancing,
poetically unfolding our soul's transformation
Co-Create a Celebration with Chanting, Prayerformance and Circle Dance

Advance Tickets $20 - $15 (seniors, students, low income) $15 - 25 at the door
Pre-pay by phone at Banyen Books & Sound - 604-737-8858 W 4th Ave, Vancouver
Doors open at 7:15 pm
St. Mark's Church, 1805 Larch St.

Sacred Voice, Vital Body workshop more info

Integrate Self through Qigong & Song
with David Embry and Minke de Vos

Workshop Sunday May 17, 10 am - 5 pm
$99 before May 3, $120 afterwards, preregistration is required
Rhodes Wellness College, 1125 Howe St. 2nd Floor

 

Quadra Island

New Years Retreat 09/10 more info

Dec. 28 - Jan. 2, 5 nights

Tao Yoga, Chi Kung and Meditation

Inner Alchemy couples masculine and feminine energies
within to grow your lifebody.

 

Quebec

Tao of Healing Love, for men and women
June 5 - 7, L'Autre Versant,
180 Tamaracouta, Mille-Isles, Qc J0R 1A0
www.ressourcement.ca


contact Annie Ollivier,
shantim66@sympatico.ca


Ontario

Tao Yoga of Love
Two Weekend Workshop Series

June 19 - 21, Tao Basics, Iron Shirt Qigong & Tao Yin Yoga

Practical ways to become balanced, grounded and flexible.
Open the pathways for optimal health.
Channel the source energy of the earth, heaven and human plane.

June 26 - 28 Fusion of the Five Elements

Transform negativity into virtues and compassion.
Play with the powers of the Five Animals to protect your self.
Connect with the shaman in you.

This workshop is at Soaring Heart Wellness located near Primrose. phone 519-925-3409

One Weekend $280, Both Weekends $510, meals and lodging extra
Soaring Heart Wellness, Shelburne, Ontario

Please email or phone us for more info.: www.soaringheartwellness.com
519-925-3409 soaringheart@xplornet.com


North Carolina

Heavenly Mountain in North Carolina
These retreats are fun with great views of the Blue Ridge Mountains!
Certification programs, cetified by Healing Tao University & Healing Tao Instructors Association


Healing Love for Health & Bliss
Taoist Secrets of Sex with Michael Winn and Minke de Vos - July 3- July 8, 2008 more info

Tao Basics & Tao Yoga for Sexual Energy - July 10 - July 15 more info

www.healingtaoretreats.com



Read Island

Summer Retreat 2009 more info
Pictures past summer retreats


Tao Basics - Sat. July 25 - 31

Tao Yoga of Love - Sat. Aug. 1 - 7

Fusion of the Five Elements I & II- Sat. Aug. 8 - 14

Soul Alchemy, Fusion III - Sat. Aug. 15 - 21



Private Sessions

with
Minke deVos

make an appointment

Tao Sexual Healing
Connect the source of your creative power with your loving intention to accelerate your growth. Safe and supportive ways help you to develop your sexual, Kundalini and spiritual energy. Self-healing for PMS, hormone balance, low libido, sexual frustration, abuse, and relationship disharmony. Access and channel rejuvenating energy to awaken your potential. Learn individualized practices to continue at home to enrich your daily life and relationships.
For individuals or couples. These sessions contain no nudity or sexually explicit activities.
$80 /hour, a session is usually 1.5 hour


Qigong Therapy
Minke helps you to dive into the roots of life issues and bring them into the light to be transformed. This profound bodywork channels Divine energy with the use of movement, healing sounds and colour to release, restore and rejuvenate.
The treatments and prescription exercises are rooted in Chinese medicine, intuition and body awareness.
Release unresolved emotions that can be stuck in your vital organs and around your navel with Chi Nei Tsang.

You will be given effective practices to manage your energy and balance emotions.
Develop integrity of presence and quality of your daily life . $120

Cosmic Healing
Connect the breath, spine, organs and brain to the planetary energies.
Align and refine your energy body.
Held at the Cauldron


Private Instruction
$80 /hour, a session is usually 1.5 hour

 

Bodywork

with
David Gyurkovics

make an appointment

Tao Acu-massage & Acutonics
David offers amazing treatments which combine Taoist Internal Organ Massage, Acupressure, Akabane meridian diagnosis/treatment and Acutonics Sound Healing. He has studied and practiced qigong, meditation and Tao yoga for 11 years and studies Japanese Acupuncture with Dr. Miki Shima OMD.
$90/ 1.5 hour

Yogic Breathing
Learn to breathe deeper in your daily life. Learn to create a state of relaxation and even bliss at will. Integrate breathing into all of your activities every day. If you would like to learn to do this you will need to do some homework but it might be the most satisfying homework you have ever done! The more serious your interest the more I can help you integrate your breath into your life. You might inhale and exhale as much as 25,000 times a day so it is worth making at least some of that breathing conscious! If you practice you will get results.
$60/hour

 


mailing address:
Silent Ground
Suite #12 - 1601 Comox Street
Vancouver BC

Canada V6G 1P4
604-669-2505

retreats@silentground.com

May the wisdom of the Tao bring meaning and fulfillment to your life.

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