ONLINE Darkroom Retreat 2025 : In-Depth Taoist Practices
In-Depth Taoist practices
8-24 February 2025
Online Workshops 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!
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 online.
During the Workshop, you will get:
- The chance to experience the legendary Darkroom and Master Chia’s energy transmission
- Audio lessons (no video) and slides with explanations in ebooklets
- The opportunity to ask Master Chia all your questions during a Q&A sessio
- 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
Mantak Chia will teach in English. We will provide LIVE online translation to several languages if there are more than 10 students requesting a translation at the special field during the checkout. To request a translation for a group of students please contact us at hello@mantakchia.com. You will be offered a full refund in case your language group is not complete and canceled.
Darkroom retreat Program
Week 1 | 8-12 February | Darkroom essential meditations.
Prerequisites for this week: Fusion I, II and III.
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
During this week you will practice Fusion I, II and II in the darkness under the guidance of Grandmaster Mantak Chia. There will be no theory, only practice.
Fusion means mixing and fusing things to create something new. In our Taoist practices, we combine emotions, natural forces, life forces, etc., into one energy we can use.
Fusion of the Five Elements I allows you to control the energy of your inner universe to facilitate the connection with the energy of the Grand Universe. You will focus on capturing negative emotions and merging them. You will then bring in all the positive emotions and combine everything to create a better energy balance.
Fusion of the Five Elements II allows you to learn to move the “pearl of radiant energy” (created in Fusion l) through your internal organs, multiplying the natural virtues that reside there. With this vital energy, you can open the Thrusting Channel Routes, which run through the center of your body, linking the “energy centers”, and open the Belt Channels, which spiral around the whole body, strengthening the auric field and providing a form of psychic protection.
The Fusion III meditation opens the Greater Bridge and Regulator Channels, Spinal Cord, Head, and Heart, using cutting and drilling techniques to clean out any energy blockages. The student learns to protect the body from external energies by Sealing the Senses and Aura and receiving the higher frequencies of the Universal Force.
Week 2 | 15-18 February | Lesser Kan & Li
Prerequisites for this week: Fusion I, II and III.
Lesser Enlightenment of Kan & Li involves cleansing and rejuvenating the glands and organs using neutral energy (steam) generated by the inverting and coupling of the primal polarities of Fire and Water. The higher Inner Alchemy Formulas, which traditionally were practiced in caves, are taught in a complete darkness environment, which has been specially created to facilitate the teaching and practice of higher-level Taoist Alchemical Meditation.
Week 3 | 21-24 February | Greater Kan & Li
Prerequisites for this week: Lesser Kan & Li
Taoists believe that the soul and spirit come from the stars and ultimately must return to them to find their origins. To do this, one must first gather and refine the energies of the soul and spirit until they are as pure as the Original Force. By harnessing energy from the Earth, the planets, the Big Dipper and the North Star, we gain spiritual power and the ability to merge with stellar forces. These meditation practices are targeted upon strengthening the body and the spirit on all levels.
You will learn to activate the cauldron at the Solar Plexus and increase the amount
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 can follow the Pi Gu diet and prepare special food to meet the particular requirements of the body, mind, and spirit in attaining the goals of darkness enlightenment. See below how to organize it and where to order Pi Gu pills.
Recommendations for the Darkroom Retreat
For the Week 1 of the Darkroom retreat we recommend to know Fundamental practices and Fusion I,II and III. If you haven’t already taken Fundamental Practices earlier, we recommend doing so and attend Winter Retreat (click here to see the page of Winter Retreat).
For the Darkroom Retreat online workshops you will get live access to audio lessons. No video will be provided as the workshop will be streamed during the Tao Garden Darkroom Retreat. You will get slides with explanations in ebooklets and Ebook on the Darkness technology. Please read them in advance.
How can I create a darkroom at home?
During the years of pandemic, we figured out how to hold the Darkroom workshops online and how our students can recreate this ancient technology and Pi Gu fasting in their own homes. This online experience proved to be a total success.
1) Order temporarily blackout blinds for windows. They stick on by static electricity without any adhesives, so they don’t leave any marks. Just pull, tear, stick and enjoy the Darkroom environment in your own home:
You can order Magic Blackout Blind here or here
2) Order Pi Gu energy pills and herbal detox sets from Tao Garden, Thailand ( Delivery time to the USA and Europe is about 15-20 days).
PURCHASE DETOX SETS CLICK HERE
3) Prepare food according to the number of days you will be in the Darkroom. In the Darkroom we maintain the Pi Gu fasting state, so you should be completely free from grains, dairy, meats, egg yolks and processed foods.
TO DOWNLOAD MORE INFO CLICK HERE
Note: you can create a Dark room or do Detox during the course, but you are not obliged to.
Daily Schedule (Paris time)
Introduction day (8 February):
13:00 - 15:00 – Introduction by Grandmaster Mantak Chia (with video, lights on)9-12 February, 13-17 February and 19-23 February:
08:00 – 12:00 Live Zoom Session by Grandmaster Mantak Chia (audio only)Tickets Online Darkroom retreat
Early booking prices for Darkroom retreat are valid till 2 February 2025
Week 1. Darkroom essential meditations
February 8-12.
Introduction and 4 days of workshops with Mantak Chia
Live Zoom Audio lessons
Lifetime access to recordings
Original price was: 299€.239€Current price is: 239€.BOOK NOW
Week 2: Lesser Kan & Li
February 15-18
4 days of workshops with Mantak Chia
Live Zoom Audio lessons
Lifetime access to recordings
Original price was: 299€.239€Current price is: 239€.BOOK NOW
Week 3: Greater Kan & Li
February 21-24
4 days of workshops with Mantak Chia
Live Zoom Audio lessons
Lifetime access to recordings
Original price was: 299€.239€Current price is: 239€.BOOK NOW
Weeks 1+2+3 Bundle
12 days of workshops with Mantak Chia
Live Zoom Audio lessons
Lifetime access to recordings
Bundle discount: 170 euro
Original price was: 897€.580€Current price is: 580€.BOOK NOW
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Cancellation policy
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