Daoist Retreat | Ba Gua Stepping Cultivation
Thursday - Sunday 9am -5pm CT
May 1 - 4, 2025
IN-PERSON TRAINING ONLY
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Course overview
The Ba Gua Stepping Cultivation Pattern is a very powerful cultivation method. It applies the qualities of trigrams while moving fluidly as it generates an intense amount of energy.
Additionally, each day will consist of the Big Eight Morning Prayers, Dao discussions, Qigong, and meditation. Initiation ceremonies will be conducted for those ready for advancement.
Additionally, each day will consist of the Big Eight Morning Prayers, Dao discussions, Qigong, and meditation. Initiation ceremonies will be conducted for those ready for advancement.
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Ba Gua Stepping Cultivation utilizes a specific movement through the Nine Palaces or the Magic Square. It is a powerful Daoist practice uniting cosmic forces, internal energy, and spiritual awareness. Practitioners develop deeper Qi flow, heightened perception, and a profound connection to the Dao.
The specific practice is called the Nine Palace Bagua Stepping Pattern 九宫八卦罡. There are many practices of the same name. Each has a specific sequence in moving through the Nine Palaces and also in the unique manner in which one moves through the progression of Palaces. These create near infinite "combinations" to unlock the potential energies contained within.
Traditionally, these are used in Daoist rituals for the purpose of gathering and connecting with specific energies. This practice is no different. Its purpose is to draw specific frequencies of Heaven and Earth, building through the sequence of Guas, to prepare for the creation of talismans, performing certain rituals, or for deep cultivation. Within this practice incantations are recited and hand seals used as one progresses through the Palaces to harness maximum energy.
The specific practice is called the Nine Palace Bagua Stepping Pattern 九宫八卦罡. There are many practices of the same name. Each has a specific sequence in moving through the Nine Palaces and also in the unique manner in which one moves through the progression of Palaces. These create near infinite "combinations" to unlock the potential energies contained within.
Traditionally, these are used in Daoist rituals for the purpose of gathering and connecting with specific energies. This practice is no different. Its purpose is to draw specific frequencies of Heaven and Earth, building through the sequence of Guas, to prepare for the creation of talismans, performing certain rituals, or for deep cultivation. Within this practice incantations are recited and hand seals used as one progresses through the Palaces to harness maximum energy.
When the Eight Trigrams were arranged into a nine-chambered square pattern, with the center representing the magical “Bright Palace,” it was commonly known as the “Magic Square.” The ancient Chinese attached great significance to this magical pattern, as it involved manifesting endless variations of mathematical calculations that could be used to explain the energetic flows of Heaven and Earth.
This practice was taught to me in 2012 by a teacher of several years, Abbot Yuán Zhì Duì 袁至兑, who at the time was the Director of Kunming Daoism Association in Yunnan. Yuán Shīfu袁师父 primarily taught me talismans and ritual for healing the ill. This is one of the cultivation methods he shared with me.
During these four days, in addition to Ba Gua Stepping Cultivation we will have:
Not only could I feel the energy you were projecting during meditation, I could feel when you shifted the intensity up and down.
I was being pushed backwards when you turned it up - through the computer! Simply Awesome!
Patrick