Universal Healing Tao

In-depth Basic Inner Alchemy

(Venice Italy)

18 - 19 April, 2026

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Join us for a 2-day retreat between the Adriatic Sea and the beautiful lagoon of Venice.

Whether you wish to cleanse your body and soul with the empowering practices of the Universal Healing Tao System, deepen your knowledge and skills in qigong, or become a UHT instructor, this retreat is for you.

We will study the fundamental practices of inner alchemy, which involve cultivating energy for physical strength and vitality, emotional balance, and inner wisdom.

This workshop is for you if you would like to develop:

- a strong, flexible, and grounded body and mind.

- emotional harmony.

- inner wisdom and direction in life.

- a loving relationship with yourself and the world around you.

- the techniques to become an inner alchemy instructor.

- Upgrade your skills as an instructor

FOUNDATION PRACTICES

Inner Smile Meditation

With the inner smile meditation, we cultivate opening our hearts to ourselves and others. Our eyes are the source of true smiles, which activate potent healing powers.

Practising inner smile meditation trains our mind to send messages of love, acceptance, understanding, and appreciation. It helps us keep in touch with our bodies and be ready to seek the positive. It activates our parasympathetic nervous system’s “relaxation response,” which produces distinct physiological changes that harmonise our body’s physiological systems, thus activating well-being and self-healing.

6 Healing Sounds Meditation

Release excess heat to transform negative emotions into positive emotions. Connecting to our major organs with a loving smile and awareness allows us to forgive, let go, and put the negative emotions behind us. Emitting sounds in specific postures and visualising colours that stimulate the optimum frequency for each major organ cools the body. It releases toxins, allowing it to relax and let go to the earth.

Microcosmic Orbit

Microcosmic orbit is a Taoist term that describes the link between two major energy channels in the body that create a safe circuit. This meditation facilitates and reinforces the flow of Qi in the Functional Channel at the front of the body and the Governor Channel at the back, ensuring that “What goes up must come down”, enabling any energy to be well distributed throughout the body and utilised by the organs and glands instead of getting stuck in the higher regions of the body as it rises. A must when cultivating energy!!!

Deepening the practice

To ensure the participants embody the basic foundation practices, we will study a selection of qigong forms that promote physical and emotional grounding, flexibility, and connection to the 5-element theory. Check out the daily programme below.

This retreat is open to people of all knowledge and physical ability levels.