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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:
HealingTao Assocotate Instructor
Tao Yoga Instructor
Feminine Treasures Instructor more info.

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.

         
     

   Silence your mind
  in the ground of consciousness.

   

 

 
 


Weekly Classes
in Vancouver March 31 - June 4 more info
Contact Minke to register for classes

 

Feminine Treasures Mondays 8 - 9:30 pm The Cauldron
Tao Yoga Tuesdays 7 - 8:30 pm The Cauldron
Wu Wei Chi Kung Wednesdays 7 - 8:30 pm The Cauldron
Tan Tien Chi Kung Tuesdays 12 - 1 pm

The Space, 4/22 -6/3

Tai Chi & Tendon Chi Kung Thursdays 10 - 11 am Stanley Park, 5/1 - 5/29
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
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, starting this fall. 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.

Introductory Medical Qigong Workshop - Sunday, June 1, 7 – 9 pm,
Rhodes Wellness College, 1125 Howe St., 2nd floor, entrance on Helmcken,
$15. Register: 604-669-2505

www.emptymountain.com
www.medicalqigong.org

more info

Vancouver

Tao Tantra Yoga
Rejuvenate your health, deepen intimacy and awaken spiritual presence through Taoist sexual energy cultivation.

Feminine Treasures - Honouring the Divine Mother within
Cultivate devotion for your body, soul and spirit

Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11, 2 - 5 pm, $48/ $40 student,low income, single moms

location: Shakti, 1340 Commercial Drive
Please register at 604-255-0900 aphroditesgarden@hotmail.com


Vancouver

Embody the Voice workshop more info

Integrate Self through Qigong & Song
with Deborah Millar and Minke de Vos

Workshop Sat. May 3, 10 am - 5:30 pm
$95 before April 18, $110 afterwards, preregistration is required
Rhodes Wellness College, 1125 Howe St. 2nd Floor


Vancouver

Creation Day! concert
an evenig of singiing and dancing
lDavid Embry Solest,
Chant Master, Founder of I AMChoir www.bluelotusmusic.com
Deborah Millar, Soloist
Pepe Danza, Master Percussionist
Chant, Poetry and Song made visible by Chant Dancers:
Stephanie Phintar, Leah Munchaster, Minke deVos and Darshan


Sunday May 4, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
St. Mark's Trininty Church, 1805 Larch St.

$20 tickets in advance, $25 at the door Tickets @ Banyen Books 604-737-8858


Edmonton

Awaken Healing Tao more info
Learn enjoyable and effective ways to awaken your powerful healing energy with Tao Fundamentals: Inner Smile Meditation, Microcosmic Orbit, Healing Sounds, Chi Kung, Chi Self-Massage

Bone Breathing Chi Kung - TBa
Tao Fundamentals - TBA

11461 University Ave.
Register with
Jim Graves 780-486-2184 gec@telusplanet.net

Calgary

Awaken Healing Tao

Moon Chi Kung TBA
Tao Fundamentals TBA
Feminine Treasures TBA

Home Sanctuary
Oak Bay Plaza, Bay 179, 2515 - 90th Avenue SW www.homesanctuary.ca

Quebec Tao of Healing Love, for men and women
June 6 - 8, Lac Carre
contact Annie Ollivier,
shantim66@sympatico.ca

Ontario

Tao Yoga of Love

Tao Yoga of Love - Saturday, June 29 10 a - 5:30 p $144, $130 early bird

Feminine Treasures - Sunday. June 28, 10 a - 5:30 p $144, $130 early bird

Whole Weekend $260, prepaid by May 30 (early bird)
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 04 - July 09, 2008

Happy & Healthy Heart Qigong - July 11 - July 16

Tao Basics & Taoist Yoga for Sexual Energy - July 18 - July 23

www.healingtaoretreats.com



Read Island

Summer Retreat 2008 more info
Pictures from summer 2006


Tao Basics - Sat. Aug. 2 - 8

Tao Yoga of Love - Sat. Aug. 9 - 15

Fusion of the Five Elements I & II- Sat. 16 - 22

Soul Alchemy, Fusion III - Sat. 23 - 29



Hollyhock
Cortes Is. BC

Tao of Love, Sex & Spirit
Rejuvenate your health, deepen intimacy and awaken spiritual presence through Taoist sexual energy cultivaiton.

Tuition $465 CDN, (meals & accommodation extra), 4 nights


Sept. 2 - 6 at Hollyhock.
800-933-6339
registration@hollyhock.ca www.hollyhock.ca


Private Instruction

with
Minke deVos

make an appointment

Tao Sexual Healing
Safe and supportive ways help you to develop your sexual, Kundalini and spiritual energy.
Self-healing for PMS, hormone balance, sexual frustration, relationship disharmony and various dysfunctions.
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.


Chi Kung Self Healing
Effective ways to manage your energy and balance emotions.
We will explore the leading edge of your unique creative expression, grounded in body awareness.
Performers develop integrity of presence and quality of of their personal life.

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 1 - 2 hours

Tuesdays at The Space
#305 - 1008 Homer St. 604-646-0199

Thursdays at Qi Integrated Health
2618 W. Broadway, 604-224-2128

 

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:

1601 Comox Street, Suite #12
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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