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.
UHT Passport credits 14 hours
Those interested in instructor evaluation or upgrading MUST contact Gillian before signing up.
Workshop Booking
Where: Hotel Cavallino Bianco, Cavallino Treporti 30013 VENICE, Italy
Language: Italian and English
Beginner friendly
Dates: 18-19 April 2026
Cost: €158 €135 Earlybird for bookings by 18 March 2026
Group examination fees Associate instructor 60 euro + 25 admin, Tao Garden
10% discount off full price for Biotaolife subscriptions and Nuova Tao Italy annual members
Reserve your place with just 100 euro, the balance is paid on the first day of the course.
Accommodation Booking
Hotel Ca' di Valle Cavallino
Special workshop rate for accommodation
Inform the hotel if you would like to share a room with another student
For reservations, please contact the hotel by email
NOTE: After workshop enrollment, accommodation reservations are made directly with the hotel.
PROGRAMME
2026
SAT
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30-13:00 Daily qigong practice, Inner smile, breathwork, Iron shirt structure
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-17:30 3 fires into one, 6 Healing sounds
SUN
7:30-8:30 Morning Qigong
8:30-10:00 BREAKFAST
10:00-13:00 Iron shirt structure, Microcosmic Orbit
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
14:30-17:30 Tan tien cultivation, 6 Healing sounds, revision and evaluation on request.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The programme can be adjusted at any point to facilitate the attendees' learning path.
If you intend to take an evaluation or an upgrade, please contact senior instructor Gillian Reid at hellobiotaolife@gmail.com
Find out more about becoming a Universal Healing Tao instructor: