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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
  
ground of consciousness

     
 

 

 

 

 


Weekly Classes
in Vancouver March 1 - June 2. 6 - Feb. 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
       
Course descriptions      

 

 

Special Events
Contact Minke to register for special events

Thailand

Check out the trailer "How it all Begun" Origins of the Universal Healig Tao. trailer
Celebrate Master Mantak Chia's teaching at the 2010 Tao Congress, Sept. 5 - 14 in Chiang Mai, Thailand www.2010taocongress.com

Minke will be teaching Heart Qigong. Join many international teachers as we celebrate 30 years of Eastern Alchemy coming to the West.

 

Vancouver

River of Love! Chant Dance more info

Sunday, May 16, 7 - 9 pm, St. Mark's Trinity Church, 1805 Larch @ 2nd

Celebrate the Flow of Love with Chanting, Performance and Circle Dancing!
Experience Moods of Divine Inspiration, poetically unfolding our soul's transformation

Works by; Rumi, Anand David Solest, Sparrow Deviyani, Minke de Vos, Hindu Chants...
Musicians: Anand David Solest Chanter, Sparrow Singer, Navaro, Percussionist, James Hamilton sitar
Speaker: Mahara Brenna Priestess will be reciting Rumi from her CD "Bird Song from Inside the Egg"
Chant Dancers: Minke de Vos, Darshan Takui, Leah Muncaster, Steph Pintar, Lenka Leduc and Greg Philips
"The ocean refuses no rivers..."

Tickets $15 advance at Banyen Books, seniors & students, $20 at the door

Qigong & Song workshop more info
Integrate Self through Qigong & Song
with Anand David Solest and Minke de Vos

$60 before May 7, $65 afterwards, $55 students, seniors
Saturday, May 15, 1- 4:30 pm
Unity Yoga Teahouse
, 1672 East 10th @ Commercial Dr.

Vancouver

Medical Qigong Practitioner Training

Certification by The International Institute of Medical Qigong and Henan University
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, Sept. 29 - Oct. 3, Nov 10 - 14, 2010 and, March 23 - 27, June 1 - 5, 2011
in Vancouver.
Please sign up by June

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 Workshops:
Talk and demo: Thursday, May 27, 7:30 - 9:30 pm,
Both Intros. at Sourcepoint 3261 Heather St.

Please inquire. Register: 604-669-2505

Clinic:
Gynecological and Neurological patients - Sat. & Sun., April 10 & 11, 9:30 am - 1 pm
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Cancer patients on May 29 & 30, Rosicrucian Hal
l, 809 West 23rd Ave, side entrance on Willow St. (near Oak St.)

www.emptymountain.com www.medicalqigong.org
more info poster for intro evening


Ottawa

Trinity Workshops with Minke de Vos & Theda Phoenix

Bone Toning
Crystal bowls, Toning & Bone Breathing Qigong
Friday, June 11, 7:30 - 10 pm

Song of the Goddess
Intuitive Soundwork, Feminine Meditation, Tao Yoga & Sensual Qigong
Saturday, June 12, 1 - 6 pm

Moon Rising
Prayerformance of Sacred Song & Dance
Saturday, June 12, 8 - 10 pm, New Moon! Southminster United Church

Minke de Vos - Healing Tao Qigong Master www.silentground.com

Theda Phoenix: Intuitive Singer www.thedaphoenix.com

Surround Circle Yoga
15 Aylmer Avenue, Old Ottawa South
* located in Southminster United Church
* entrance is on Galt Street - 2nd floor
www.surroundcircleyoga.com

To register for events call or email:
Maureen Fallis * 613-730-6649 * maureen.fallis@sympatico.ca

Vancouver

InterSpiritual Sacred Dance Festival

Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010
This full day and evening event will include ceremony, circle dances, lunch, afternoon workshops, evening performances, a zikr, and a community sacred dance.

Please inquire if you would like to be on the Organizing Team or be a Volunteer.

We are accepting proposals for workshop leaders and performers.
Please view the photos of the first ground-breaking event held on Nov. 7 2009 at:

www.interspiritualsacreddance.org

 
Big Island, HI

Tao Alchemy Retreat in Hawaii Feb 18 - 23, 2011 more info

Tao Practice Qigong, Tao Yoga and Meditation to:
* Experience the power of renewal as the earth steams and rebirths itself
beneath us! With each rejuvenating moment, we will "steam" our sexual essence to purify and grow our life body.
* Connect with the Divine as we journey to awesome locations to enliven our practice and dance with the elements!
* Be present with love and come to peace with yourself.


Kahuna Falls: Retreat center on The Big Island along the Hamakua Coast. This is a secluded, 40 acre oasis with 4 waterfalls, panoramic views of the ocean and tropical forests. Comfy rooms and healthy exotic food. www.kahunafalls.com
Feb. 18 - 23, All Inclusive: $915 plus tax, inquire for details

Register early as space is limited to 10 people
Contact: minke@silentground.com 604-669-2505

Vancouver

Chi Nei Tsang workshop more info
Taoist Internal Organ Massage


with Senior Universal Tao Instructor from California, Tiffiny Fyans
Release unresolved emotions from your navel center

Certification Training, Practitioner level I

Friday, April 30, 6:30 - 9:30 pm $35
Saturday & Sunday, May 1 & 2, 10 am - 5 pm

Location: Rosicrucian Hall, 809 West 23rd Ave, entrance on 23 rd
Investment: $35 for Friday,
$275 whole weekend


Ottawa

Bone Toning & Song of the Goddess

Workshop with Minke de Vos & Theda Phoenix

Bone Toning
Crystal bowls, Toning & Bone Breathing Qigong, Unwinding
Saturday, June 11, 7:30 - 9:30 pm, Bone Toning, $25, $20 sliding scale

Song of the Goddess
Intuitive Soundwork, Feminine Meditation, Self Massage & Sensual Qigong
Tao Yoga for Women's Wellness
Connect your creative voice with your sexual energy
Sunday, June 12, 12 - 4:30 pm, $65, $55 sliding scale

Location TBA


Register: mInke@silentground.com more info

Saskatoon

Feminine Treasures Retreat more info

Tao Yoga for Women's Wellness

with Senior Universal Tao Instructor Minke de Vos
Cultivate Female Sexual Energy to Grow Love, Beauty and Vitality

April 23 - 25, Ancient Spirals Retreat Centre
Register with Linda Fisher
lindasarah@sasktel.net

Ontario

Tao Yoga of Love
Weekend Workshop
June TBA, Tao Basics, Iron Shirt Qigong & Tao Yin Yoga

This workshop is at Soaring Heart Wellness located near Primrose. phone 519-925-3409
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 2- July 7, 2010 more info

Tao Basics & Tao Yoga for Sexual Energy - July 9 - July 14 more info

www.healingtaoretreats.com

See Youtube video Summer Retreats at Heavenly Mountain

Read Island

Summer Retreat 2010 more info
Pictures past summer retreats


Tao Basics - Sat. July 24 - 30

Tao Yoga of Love - Sat. July 31 - Aug. 6

Fusion of the Five Elements I & II- Sat. Aug. 7- 13

Soul Alchemy, Fusion III - Sat. Aug. 14 - 20


Private Sessions

with
Minke deVos

make an appointment

Feminine
Treasures

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


Medical 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 . 1.5 hour $100

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

Private Instruction
$80 /hour, a session is usually 1.5 hour, Held at the Cauldron

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.
$100/ 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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