Wisdom Discovery: A QigongDharma Retreat
Retreat Center: Applegate Retreat Center in Applegate, CA
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Arrival Time: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, between 2:00 and 4:00 PM
Departure Time: Sunday, April 27, 2025, approximately 11:00 AM
Retreat Description
We are delighted to invite you to the Life~Transforming 6-day/5-night QigongDharma Residential Retreat from Tuesday, April 22 to Sunday, April 27, 2025.
This retreat, set at the serene Applegate Retreat Center in Northern California, is a profound journey of self-discovery and transformation. The natural beauty and tranquil setting serve as the perfect canvas for deep internal exploration and restorative practice. The Center, just an hour away from the Sacramento International Airport, warmly welcomes you.
Retreat Structure: Our daily schedule is thoughtfully designed to strike a harmonious balance between immersive study and practice and restorative rest, ensuring that you can deepen your connection with your internal landscape and the reality of your life.
Retreat Theme: The Discovery of Internal Resources for Life-Long Well-Being Featuring: Standing & Seated Qigong, Daoyin, Neigong and Meditation and The Dharma of the 7 Factors of Awakening. This retreat includes 4 daily in-depth practice & teaching sessions with Teja. There will be 3 optional 24-minute silent sits with practice leaders throughout each day. The daily schedule is spacious, allowing for periods of rest and nature appreciation.
Retreat participants will find pathways to experience profound inner freedom, clarity, and stability by engaging in practices that align with these factors. Each Bojjhanga offers a tool for transforming habitual reactions and cultivating a resilient, awakened mind that supports life- long well-being.
This expanded framework can serve as a spiritual guide and a daily touchstone, embodying a liberation practice that responds with grace and resilience to the rhythm of life’s changing circumstances.
The connection between QigongDharma practice and the seven factors of awakening is profound, as each factor resonates deeply with Qigong’s principles and methodologies. At this retreat, participants can experience how specific practices cultivate these factors individually and integrate them into experiences of inner freedom and resilience.
* The specific retreat details of Qigong practices and meditation/contemplation elements and schedule will be provided by March 2025.
The Purpose of this Retreat:
- Integrate Qigong, Daoyin, Neigong, Dharma and Meditation:
- Standing and Seated Qigong: Practices to align breath, body, and energy, cultivating resilience and vitality.
- Daoyin: Mindful movements guide energy flow, enhance flexibility, and encourage self-healing.
- Neigong: Inner cultivation methods for accessing deeper energetic layers, fostering stability and clarity.
- Dharma and Meditation: Having the teachings is important; having the time to sit in Ture Nature is Essential!
Explore the Dharma of the 7 Factors of Awakening:
- 7 Factors of Awakening: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy, Joy, Tranquility, Concentration, and Equanimity.
- Daily Dharma Teachings integrate these factors into the practice, offering insights into how each can be cultivated through Qigong and applied to everyday life.
The seven factors of awakening (Bojjhangas) are pivotal in both traditional Buddhist practice and QigongDharma. In QigongDharma, these factors offer a profound framework for cultivating holistic well-being. These are developmental and cultivated qualities that the Buddha is said to have offered to those in pursuit of liberation from the wheel of habitual conditioning – known also as Samsara.
Payment and Cancellation Policy
The last day to cancel your registration for this retreat for a refund is March 22nd, 2025. Note: there is a $250 non-refundable administrative fee, and the balance of your payment will be refundable up until this deadline. Please allow up to 10 days for refunds to be processed from the date of request. For those who cancel after March 22nd, there is a $250 non-refundable administrative fee, and the balance of your payment can be applied as a credit to a select future retreat offered by Teja Bell. You will also have the option to offer the balance as a donation rather than receive a credit.