Master Mantak Chia will teach a full Certification program for instructors in the Universal Healing Tao system in New York City from June 9 through June 22, 2012. This will be a historic event, since the last instructor certification by Master Chia in the U.S. was in 1994. From then until now, interested students had to travel to Tao Gardens in Thailand or to Europe for this professional training.
For many students of the Universal Healing Tao, this may be the next step for your practice. Sharing the teachings and practices of this beneficial holistic system enables you to give others the tools to heal and transform their lives.
Master Mantak Chia will offer 3 levels of training and certification in this program. He will be assisted by North American Senior Instructors of the Universal Healing Tao, including Marie Favorito, Sharon Smith and Michael Winn.
The Associate Instructor Training will enable you to teach the Tao Basics. This first level of instruction includes the Microcosmic Orbit, Six Healing Sounds, The Inner Smile and simple QiGong. Full Instructor Certification includes the Basics plus testing in Healing Love, Tai Chi, Iron Shirt and Tao Yin Yoga.
Classroom instruction enables you to directly address the questions that have come up for you in your individual studies, clarify the teachings and fine tune your personal performance.
Master Mantak Chia has been training instructors worldwide for over 30 years. Many have dedicated decades to mastering and specializing in particular aspects of Taoist Internal Alchemy like Healing Love, Tai Chi, Iron Shirt, or Fusion. Working with these professional instructors can accelerate your growth, deepen your understanding and take your practice to higher levels.
Grand Master Mantak Chia has lived his life creating a bridge which unifies centuries of practices originating in the Tao with the present universal needs of modern man. He has found a way to take the once secret and exclusive practices, formulas, and methods of Taoist Internal Alchemy and make them easy to understand, learn, and integrate into the life of any individual looking to develop their body, mind, and spirit.
His forty years of training and teaching thousands of students has enabled him to take his studies with many Masters and teachers throughout Asia and arrive at a simple, clear, heartfelt and precise path. His present system conveys the most essential knowledge and practices for cultivating the self by consciously growing the spirit. His trainings for increasing personal Chi (life force energy) and transforming stored negative emotions to positive virtue are applicable to numerous human conditions, life styles, and interests.
In April 2011, THE WATKINS REVIEW listed Grand Master Mantak Chia as No. 23 on its list of the most influential spiritual leaders and authors alive today. Also included are the Dalai Lama (No. 2), Gregg Braden (No. 25), Deepak Chopra (No. 5), and Eckhart Tolle (No. 1).
You can read about Mantak Chia in the spring issue of The Watkins Review, which features an eleven-page article highlighting these 100 inspirational individuals. The Watkins Review is published and sold by Watkins Books, London's oldest and largest independent esoteric bookshop. The magazine is also available worldwide from the Apple App store.The Watkins Review’s list of the Spiritual 100 joins Times Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people, and Forbes list of the top 100 celebrities and “most rich,” placing spirituality as a major factor in the measurement of a successful and meaningful life.
PacificTao.com congratulates Grand Master Chia on this important acknowledgment of his lifelong studies, practice, and commitment to teaching the Universal Healing Tao to students throughout the world.