Minke's Teaching Schedule

Tao Classes in Vancouver
Find serenity and renewal within the city.

Round out or set up your fitness program by balancing strength, fluidity and stillness.
Often fitness training emphasizes angular, linear, mechanical, postural, and muscular gestures, which work with coarser, protective bodily energies. Chi Kung embraces rounder, fuller, fluid gestures, which work with sensitive, subtle energies flowing in, around and through the body. This internal dance of energy is meditation in motion. Moving from inside develops an integral, authentic sense of well-being. Build your internal power by mastering your mind, breathing and channelling of universal forces. Enhance happiness, health and longevity with time-tested practices.

The Tao is living in harmony with nature, with your true nature. It is the ancient source of acupuncture and Tai Chi. Chi Kung is Oriental Breath Therapy and energy-directing exercise. Express your creativity with vibrant and meaningful movement.

These classes serve to support and deepen your practice. Experiencing the chi exercises over an extended period will allow you to fully reap their sustaining benefits.


 

"I offer you my love and joy for practice!"

The Taoist system -works as an organic whole:
Healing Love practices -develop mastery of your creative life force.
Inner Smile Meditation -harmonizes emotions and grows virtues.
Microcosmic Orbit Circulation -channels and generates energy.
Chi Kung, Tao Yoga, and Breathwork -ground and integrate energy.
Sound Healing and Movement -make practicing playful!
Beginners to advanced practitioners of internal arts go home with practical tools to enrich their paths

Minke de Vos
Director of Silent Ground Retreat Centre, she has dedicated over 20 years to intensive practice of traditional Taoist teachings enlivened with dance, Yoga, Chi Kung and spiritual unfoldings. She is highly regarded by Master Mantak Chia. Minke instructs international workshops and teacher training programs.

"Minke is such an extraordinary teacher with knowledge, wisdom, and gracefulness. Our work with her was intense and yet felt so effortless because of her way of teaching."

Spring Schedule - March 31 - June 4

Weekly Classes are on-going. Drop-ins are welcome. Please call ahead.

Fall is the time to harvest energy.
Winter is the time when nature returns to its roots...

Spring is the time when the dragon, our life force, comes out of the earth.

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
Tai Chi & Tendon Chi Kung Thursdays 10 - 11 am Stanley Park
Tan Tien Chi Kung Tuesdays 12 noon - 1 pm The Space

Course Descriptions

The Cauldron, urban centre of Silent Ground
1601 Comox Street, Suite #12
Vancouver, BC, V6G 1P4
RSVP 604-669-2505

Fees
Please pay for the whole session.
$80 for 5 classes
$150/ 10 classes {any class) Class pass valid for 2 seasons
$18/ Drop-in.
$12 student rate, single moms
Work/Study available.


Please register
for classes by email
minke@silentground.com or call 604-669-2505

 

 

 

Tan Tien Chi Kung Series new!

Tai Chi Chi Kung in Stanley Park new!

Drop in for a Chi-Moving experience!

Weekly Course Descriptions

 

Feminine Treasures
Cultivating Female Sexual Energy
Enhance the quality of your life and relationships
with Healing Love practices. Tap into your powerful, creative, sexual energy, the Fountain of Youth. Effective methods fuel longevity, vitality and self-healing. Chi Self-Massage of the breast and lower abdomen are self-nurturing and are known to help prevent cancer. Internal resistance training, using a real or imaginary jade egg, tonifies the "Chi Muscles" in the pelvic floor, the support for all your organs. Prevent excessive energy loss and discomfort from menstruation. Enhance your hormones, beauty and inner strength, before and after menopause. Embrace your power!

Treat yourself to healing gestures of love. Nurture your feminine essence with Ovarian and Kidney breathing, self massage and sensual movement. We will practice breast massage as a meditation for growing compassion. We will play with a real or imaginary jade egg inside the vagina to exercise the PC muscles and pull up energy through the chakras. These practices will allow you to deepen your connection with your feelings, body and energy.
Generate more loving, creative energy for your life!

The practices are known to help with:
*reducing PMS, menstrual difficulties and breast sensitivity
*preventing breast and ovarian cancer
*strenghtening the pelvic floor to prevent incontinance
*balancing the hormones and boosting youthfulness

Please bring a skirt or sarong and jade egg (for sale).

"It is wonderful to practice with Minke as she is able to draw on her incredible experience and connect you to all the secret parts of yourself through breathing and movement. The exercices are wonderful, sensual and supportive of me. I am committed to really getting to know and use them for a long time." Laila, Life Skills Empowerment Coach

"Thank you so much for bringing the Healing Love Workshop to Victoria, and also for your nurturing and energizing presence! These practices are a truly wonderful gift; I feel so beautiful and empowered. It has revealed to me an aspect of myself that I have been neglecting, but didn't realize it. I'm excited about making these practices a part of my life, and am looking forward to attending many more of your workshops." Ursula, Bellydancer

"Dear Minke, That was quite a workshop--My experience of your teaching is that it is deeply penetrating in a graceful, easy, natural yet powerful way. I was left with an inspiration to continue the practices. The exercises, as well as the music you chose, brought both tender tears of heart connection ,as well as exhilaration, joy, laughter and ecstacy from an awareness of the vastness of the Universal Chi and my connection to it. Thank you for being the gift that you are and sharing it." Love, Julia

Tao Yoga
Tao Yoga mobilizes energy in the meridians through conscious breathing in supple movement. Enhance your physical experience of yoga with inner work. Circulate rejuvenating energy through flowing yogic movements and unique, high-tech Shamanistic breathwork. Tao Yoga develops a rubbery, energetic body by growing elasticity in the tendons and dynamically balancing stretch and strength. Heighten awareness of holistic connections like the psoas muscle, "the muscle of the soul" and the diaphragm, "the muscle of the spirit". The exercises stem from Tao Yin, Yoga, Dance, Feldenkrais and energetic training. This organic practice is well-loved for the sense of integration of body, breath and energy awareness.

"My pranayama has been powerfully boosted by opening the channels and growing the virtues."
- Jennifer Herzog, Yoga Instructor

"The whole class was like one long massage, deeply penetrating and pleasureable."
- Andy Gilson, Computer Consultant.

"I am used to working in specific linear alignment and it was great to work outside of that and to experience the fluid movement and flow of your class, I found it to be be a compliment to my work in Pilates"
- Tara Crawford, certified pilates instructor.

"I enjoyed my first class with you. your calm and kind spirit is very inviting and nurturing. Thank you for reminding me to smile!"
- Lori, Yoga Instructor

Chi Kung
Oriental Breath Therapy directs energy through gentle, harmonizing movements. Iron Shirt Chi Kung is an effective way to retain rejuvenating energy. Align your posture, test your rooting, breathe strength into your body in conductive postures. Regrowing the tendons gives the body spring! Tan Tien Chi Kung develops internal chi pressure in the lower abdomen, which grounds and uplifts the body/mind through playful animal forms. Walking meditations improve awareness, chi and blood circultation.

Wu Wei Chi Kung, Bone Breathing & Healing Sounds
The class is a powerful combination of Iron Shirt Chi Kung, Bone Breathing, Wu Wei Chi Kung and Healing Sounds.
Penetrate your deepest form and then release into formless flow. This dynamic stirs spontaneous healing. Laugh with your bones! Surrender to the wisdom of your spirit with "Wu Wei", "effortless effort". Healing sounds allow us to let go of stress.


Iron Shirt Chi Kung builds your protective "iron shirt" by packing chi into your channels, tendons and connective tissues. Powerful gestures build a strong core and good posture in life.
Bone Breathing uses warm energy to clean the plaque in the bones. Penetrating breathing builds up the blood in the bone marrow. Sexual energy is stored in the bones to replenish inner reserves of life force.

Wu Wei Chi Kung allows chi energy to move you spontaneously. It is meditative movement, which liberates your energy and opens your body. Unwind internal knots. Tap into inspired movement.
The Six Healing Sounds relieve the organs of trapped heat and imbalanced emotional energies. It clears the space for virtues to grow inside. This is an excellent practice to "chill out" and sleep better.


Tai Chi Chi Kung
The 13 movement form creates orientation in the four directions and balances Yin and Yang flows. This gem of Tai Chi applies the inner structure and flow of Chi Kung into spatial movement. Experience being centered and moving with natural grace and ease. The gestures can be applied to any form.

Tan Tien Chi Kung Series more info new!
Build warm chi in your " Tan Tien" centre through dynamic animal forms. Develop perineum power.
New class series in Tan Tien Chi Kung, April 22 - June 3, a 7 week course at 12 - 1 pm,
The Space, #305 - 1008 Homer St. @ Nelson in Yaletown www.thespacevancouver.com
Fun Animal Forms move your energy and strengthen your "Chi Muscles" (pelvic floor).
Preregistration and dropin. $15 drop in and $95 for 7 weeks.

Tai Chi Chi Kung in Stanley Park new!
May 1 - 29, 10 - 11 am, 5 weeks
T
his class is so refreshing! Enjoy breathing in the natural beauty.
We will also practice Tendon Growing Chi Kung and "bouncy pushups" on the trees.
The 13-movement Tai Chi form creates orientation in the four directions and balances Yin and Yang flows.
Experience being centered and moving with natural grace and ease.
Come move amidst the trees and fresh air! Weather permitting,
Location: North of the tennis courts and end of Nelson St. Parking by tennis courts.

Preregistration and dropin. $15 drop in and $70 for 5 weeks.

Tao Meditation & Chi Self-Massage
Inner Smile relaxes one internally, embraces and dissolves negativity. Give your loving attention to your whole body. Microcosmic Orbit/ Internal Acupuncture builds the energetic foundation for physical, psychic and spiritual development The main energetic circuit runs up the spine and down the front of the body, nourishes all the channels and meridians, clears blockages and revitalizes.
Fusion of the Five Elements transforms negativity, grows virtues and forms the essence "pearl" of the soul body, which connects with the universe. It sets off inner alchemical processes and opens the Extraordinary / Psychic Vessels.
Chi Self Massage stimulates chi circulation and rejuvenates the body. This practice of self-love gives an immediate sense of well-being.

Meditative practice accelerates your inner growth...
* Set a bright tune for your day and week.
* Embrace your life and all the mundane concerns with the perspective of your majestic spirit.
* Transform "negative" emotions into positivity by smiling inwardly to all your internal organs.
* Circulate refined and upgraded energy in the Microcosmic Orbit and other channels.
* Massage your body from head to toe. Feels deightful!

 

Workshops & Events Descriptions

 

Retreats

The Tao of Healing Love more info
Cultivate male and female sexual energy for health and bliss. Singles & Couples
December 6 - 12, 2007
Kalani Oceanside Retreat www.kalani.com
for more info. see healing love

 

New Year's Retreat 2008 more info
December 28 - January 2, 5 nights.
$850. all inclusive. Preregister by Dec. 1, $800
Inner Alchemy, Unite the masculine and Feminine energies within to grow your life body.
Supercharge your creativity and meditation.
Cozy, peaceful place on Quadra Island.

Summer Retreat 2008 more info
Pictures from summer 2006

Practice Tao Yoga, Chi Kung and Meditation
for an amazing awakening and rejuvenating experience.
Give yourself time to deeply explore your inner life.
Connect and absorb nature’s splendor and pure energy.
Learn tools to get your personal Energy Body tuned up so you can vibrate with the Source.
Accelerate your growth!


Living Tao - Saturday, August 2 - Friday, August 8
Tao Yoga of Love - Saturday., Aug. 9 - Sat., Aug. 15
Fusion of the Five Elements I
- Saturday., Aug. 16 - Sat., Aug. 22
Soul Alchemy, Fusion II -
Saturday., Aug. 23 - Sat., Aug. 29

Bird Cove is a sacred place for integral transformation, on Read Is., near Cortes Is., BC.
Silent Ground has served a broad community of practitioners for over 20 years.
Tuition, room & meals inclusive: $750- $890/ 6 nights

with Universal Tao Instructors,
Minke de Vos & David Gyurkovics

"The practices are sitting differently this time around and there is a greater sense and feeling of core penetration...so they won't slip away this time." Wayne, Writer

Private Instruction with Minke de Vos

Tao Sexual Healing
Safe and supportive ways help you to develop your sexual, Kundalini and spiritual energy.
Self-healing for PMS, hormon balance, sexual frustration, relationship disharmony and various dysfunctions.
Learn individualized practices to continue at home to enrich your daily life and relationships.
For or 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

Qi Integrated Health - Thursdays 2 - 8 pm

Please register for private sessions by email
minke@silentground.com or call 604-669-2505.


Private Coaching with David Gyurkovics

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.
$60/hour

Tao Acumassage

Treatment includes the Akabane test, a low-tech diagnosis and therapy, which uses heat applied to the ends or beginnings of the acupuncture channels on the fingers and toes. It is highly accurate and effective in diagnosis and treatment of left/right energy imbalances. Internal Organ massage around the navel is effective for releasing blockages. Acupressure opens the body and emotions to greater harmony.
$90/ 1.5 hour

David is currently available for private sessions to assist you with breathing, energy flow in the body, meditation and Taoist sexual practices.
$60/hour
Please register for private coaching by email retreats@silentground.com
or call 604-669-2505

 

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