Darkroom Retreat 2025 : In-Depth Taoist Practices
In-Depth Taoist practices
8-24 February 2025
Tao Garden Workshops in Thailand with legendary Master Mantak Chia
About Mantak Chia
Grandmaster Mantak Chia is the world’s foremost Taoist Master. He is the only Qigong Master who received The Qigong Master of the Year Award twice. He is the author of 60 books and has 49 years of teaching experience —online and onsite. Students of Master Chia especially like the clarity of the explanations, the many repetitions of practice, and his slow pace.
The classes with Mantak Chia are unique, thanks to his ability to transmit energy to his students, online or in the classroom. Many students practicing with Master Chia not only witness the wisdom of primordial violet light during his Energy Transmissions but also begin their initial healing processes.
About the Darkroom Retreat
This is the most awaited event for anyone willing to try and experience in-depth Taoist practices with Grandmaster Mantak Chia! These workshop practices take place in the Darkroom designed according to Taoist traditions. During the workshop, you will be completely free from any external light source (except Day 1) and you will have 3 meals a day according to Taoist Pi Gu diet.
In the darkness, you can enter a primordial state —accessing spiritual and psychic realms of consciousness and reuniting with your true self. You become a conductor of universal energy as the darkness activates the deepest centers of the brain, the glands in the Crystal Palace.
Pi Gu Fasting Diet includes Taoist practices, energy meditations, and specific ways of chewing food. This Darkroom Pi Gu state gives tremendous healing power.
You will get step-by-step explanations and guidance on meditations to quieten your mind and give your body an incredible rest, supporting its natural rejuvenation.
Join us for 1, 2 or 3 weeks in Tao Garden, Chiang Mai (Thailand).
During the Workshop, you will get:
- The chance to experience the legendary Darkroom and Master Chia’s energy transmission
- 3 meals a day, herbal detox tea and supplements according to Taoist Pi Gu diet
- The opportunity to ask Master Chia all your questions during a Q&A session
- Ebook “Darkness Technology”
- E-booklets
- Lifetime access to all provided videos and materials
This Retreat is for you if you are:
Looking to experience complete stillness in the darkness to reset your biological clock and to access higher states of consciousness and wisdom.
Willing to deepen your meditation practice and start to see the Primordial light
Looking to experience Advanced Taoist meditations and spiritual transformation through higher level practices
Master Mantak Chia will teach in English. There will be no translation furing the Darkroom retreat in order to keep the full darkness experience for our participants.
Recommendations for the Darkroom Retreat
Basic knowledge of Fundamental practices such as Cosmic Inner Smile, Six Healing Sounds, Fusion of the Five Elements, Microcosmic Orbit, Iron Shirt Qigong, and Tao Yin, which bring the body into a state of balance and tuning. A physically fit vehicle is the foundation stone from which to launch astral travel into multi-dimensional orbits and higher cortical activity. If you haven’t already taken Fundamental Practices earlier, we recommend doing so and attend Winter Retreat. Learn more about Winter Retreat.
During the darkness retreat, you will be completely free from any external light source and all types of animal and dairy protein except for egg-whites to cover your body’s protein and calcium needs. Chlorophylle will be provided daily. Juices, sesame, herbal detox teas, vegetable broth and fruits will be provided to you 3 times per day.
All participants are encouraged to engage in a healthy preparatory diet and bowel cleansing process starting 4 weeks before the retreat. Diet should be rich in Vitamin D, beta-carotene like choleric, calcium (2,000 gm), magnesium (500 mg), and zinc (20 mg/day).
We recommend eating less food 1 week before arrival and check-in at the Tao Garden at least 2 days before the retreat (for additional fee, please contact retreatreservation@tao-garden.com) to prepare the body, clean the colon and do the recommended blood tests (optional).
Darkroom retreat Program
Week 1 | 8-13 February | Darkroom essential meditations.
Prerequisites for this week: Fusion I, II and III.
Schedule
- - Sat 8 February | Introduction with lights on and Energy Transmission
- - Sun 9 – Wed 12 February | Darkroom essential meditations. Creating an Energy body. Pearl of Consciousness
- - Thu 13 Feb Review class with a Senior Instructor (10.00-12.30)
Week 2 | 15-19 February Lesser Kan & Li
Prerequisites for this week: Fusion I, II and III.
Schedule
- Sat 15 – Tue 18 February | Lesser Kan & Li
- Wed 19 February | Review class with Instructor
Week 3 | 21-25 February Greater Kan & Li
Prerequisites for this week: Lesser Kan & Li
Schedule
- Fri 21 - Mon 24 February | Greater Kan & Li, exit from Darkness on the evening 24 February
- Tue 25 February | Review class with Instructor (with lights on)
Tao Garden Darkness facility
Master Chia researched modern Darkness technologies for many years. He made visits to darkness retreats in other countries, to gain insights on the best designs for meditation and for comfort. Eventually, the Tao Garden Darkness building was constructed, based on all available information and latest technologies. The facility is the perfect Inner Alchemy Chamber, conducive to meditation and providing comforts and necessities for up to 60 people.
The Tao Garden Darkness is enclosed and encased in a light and sound-proof sheath. The building is constructed of bricks made from the red earth of Thailand, containing all of the properties of natural rock in a cave. The earth was mined and hydraulically pressed into bricks, thus preserving the constituent elements and minerals of the parent materials. The Mother Earth power is retained in the modern structure.
The facility consists of a large, central meeting room for meditation and for dining. Two tiers of bedrooms surround the central area, each with a private bath. The entire facility is ventilated with fresh air intakes and air conditioning systems.
The Universal Healing Tao Darkness is currently the largest and most advanced Darkness meditation facility in the world.
❗️New private rooms
Due to a high demand for Single rooms, we created a darkroom for a few more single (private) rooms. The rooms are fully lightproof and are located in a building next to the Darkroom facility. You will join lectures with Grandmaster Mantak Chia directly from your room, thanks to installed speakers. You will be able to ask your questions by phone installed in the room. You will get food and supplements according to Taoist PiGu diet delivered to your room according to the schedule of the Retreat.
What is Pi Gu?
Pi Gu is an ancient Taoist method of fasting for spiritual and healing purposes. It translates from Chinese as “stop eating grain.”
Used by ancient Taoist masters during their months or years of solitary retreat in pursuit of enlightenment, the practice centers on a simple diet of fruits, teas, nuts, and eggs paired with special chewing techniques.
During the Pi Gu state, the need for food decreases yet the body’s energy levels actually increase. The body gathers Qi (Life force) not from food but from Taoist practices and the “golden elixir” produced by the special chewing practices. This Qi charges your internal organs, activating the body’s natural healing abilities and enabling you to draw energies from the Earth and Universe. In the pi gu state the body automatically balances itself, the mind is more relaxed, and sleep improves.
During the workshop you will be served with specially prepared food to meetthe particular requirements of the body, mind, and spirit in attaining the goals of darkness enlightenment. Fresh juices and soups are served for breakfast and a light organic meal is served in the afternoon. You will also get special herbal detox tea and supplements prepared according to Taoist Darkroom traditions.
Weekly Schedule (Thailand time)
8 Feb, Introduction day
– 16:00 – Introduction by Senior Instructor
– 16:30 – Introduction by Grandmaster Mantak Chia (with lights on)
– 18:00 – Dinner in Dark Room according to Pigu diet
– 22:00 – Turn off the light. Start of Darkness retreat
Days of sessions with Grandmaster Mantak Chia
-7:15 am – Tea
- 8:00 am – 9:00 am Morning Meditation & Review class
- 9:00 am – 10:00 am Breakfast
- 10.00 am – 12.00 Treatments and massage (not included in the price)
- 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
- 14.00 – 18.00 Session by Grandmaster Mantak Chia
- 18.00 – 20.00 Dinner
- 20.00 – 21.00 Evening Session
- 21.30 Bedtimes
Exit from the darkness in the evening after Review class with Instructor (13 February, 19 February, 24 February); exit from Darkness for those who don’t continue the Retreat.
Review class day
- 7:15 am – Tea
- 8:00 am – 9:00 am Morning Meditation & Review class
- 9:00 am – 10:00 am Breakfast
- 10:00 am - 12:00 am Review class by Senior Instructor
- 19:00 check out from Darkroom (on the last Review day of your booking)
- Guests who continue more weeks can stay in the Dark or out for relaxation & treatments.
Tickets Darkroom retreat
Prices include Classes with Master Mantak Chia, accommodation, morning meditation and Review class with Instructor, supplements and meals according to Pigu fasting. To book accomodation for additional days in Tao Garden contact Nok at retreatreservation@tao-garden.com
Your booking is 100% refundable up to 30 days before the workshop, 50% from 30 to 14 days before, and non-refundable 14 days and less before the workshop.
Week 1. Darkroom essential meditations Triple room (shared)
8-13 February
5 days of workshops with Mantak Chia, Review class.
5 nights
Tao Garden, Thailand.
990€BOOK NOW
Week 2: Lesser Kan & Li Triple room (shared)
15-19 February
4 days of workshops with Mantak Chia and Review class.
5 nights
Tao Garden, Thailand.
890€BOOK NOW
Week 3: Greater Kan & Li Triple room (shared)
21-25 February
4 days of workshops with Mantak Chia and Review class.
5 nights
Tao Garden, Thailand.
890€BOOK NOW
Weeks 1+2+3 Bundle Double room (shared)
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