Journey to Forgiveness

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Level: Open to All
Video time: 21 hours
Access: 18 months

Course overview

Join us for this training, where we will learn to be honest with ourselves, connect to and resolve deep trauma, and discover unrefined wisdom.

We will learn to trace traumas to the root sources, acknowledge our pain and find a way back to unity.

Join us for this 14 session training across 7 months, where will learn to be honest with ourselves, connect to and resolve deep trauma, and discover unrefined wisdom.

This unique training is an answer to the problems in finding forgiveness. Have you struggled with not be able to fully let go? Have you personally found difficulty in forgiving a person or circumstance?

Much of healing comes from reframing our perspective on our wounds. Finding the truth underneath.

Any wounding or emotional trauma is a break in trust. This break has the propensity to a cascading of events separating us from ourselves, Source, Virtue, and our reserves of energy.

How much of your life force energy do you not have access to because it is used to suppress emotions, to wear masks in social situations, and to hide from ourselves?

It is said that it takes twice the energy to hold a lie than the truth. How many lies have you told about how you are feeling – To others? To yourself?

How much energy is stuck in your body unable to be used which only creates stagnation and illness? These lies create separation from you and source.

In this training, we trace traumas to the root sources, acknowledge our pain and find a way back to unity.

I have had other teachers who are knowledgeable but I have only had this one who helped me feel safe enough to vulnerable to the truths I need to see and experience. My walls have begun to melt.

Melanie

Here is the path we will follow:

Stage 1: Safety and Grounding (安, ān)

Healing begins with safety. Without it, no progress is possible. For a wounded spirit, openness requires protection. Healing cannot begin until the body no longer feels under constant threat.

At first, safety may mean a physical refuge (home, church, or nature). Later, tools like breath work and grounding energy into the lower Dāntián which is used to root the spirit, reduce hypervigilance, and restore security to help create safety within. Without this, one may return to numbing or external comforts instead of doing the work of becoming present.

Stage 2: Softening Defenses (解, jiě)

As safety takes root, the Heart begins to loosen its armor. Dao De Jing, Chapter 4, describes the Dao as that which “dulls sharpness, unravels tangles, softens glare, and merges with dust” (Pine, 2009, p. 8). This softening is the undoing of rigid defenses that once shielded the shén. In psychology,

it is the gentle dismantling of survival strategies such as avoidance, dissociation, numbing that once protected but now confine. Therapists honor these defenses for the safety they once gave, while guiding their release. In Chinese medicine, this process is like resolving phlegm and stagnation that block the Heart orifices, clearing space for the shén to shine again.

Stage 3: Reconciling the False Spirit (正, zhèng)

Healing requires turning toward what Chinese medicine calls the “false spirit” (假神, jiǎ shén) which is the conditioned, survival-based identity formed in response to wounding. This acquired spirit is not inherently wrong. It reflects the adaptive strategies that once preserved life and connection.

When flexible, it supports daily functioning, but when rigid it obscures the radiance of the true spirit (yuánshén). The task is not to destroy this false spirit but to acknowledge and gradually realign it with the deeper essence.

Stage 4: Gathering the Fragments (合, hé)

Where the wounded spirit scattered, the healing spirit gathers.

Across Daoist teachings, this principle appears again and again: what has dispersed must be called home. Illness, trauma, and long-term stress cause the Shén to lose its anchoring, allowing fragments of awareness to drift outward into worry, fear, fantasy, or numbness.

The ancient texts often describe this as “the spirit leaking away,” a dissipation of inner coherence. Healing begins when the practitioner helps the patient collect themselves both literally and energetically. This allows the spirit to return to its proper throne.

Stage 5: Reigniting Vitality (明, míng)

When fragments are gathered, vitality begins to return. What was scattered begins to concentrate. What was dim begins to glow again.

The Heart, once dull from fear and depletion, slowly regains its natural brightness. In Chinese medicine this is called the restoration of shén-míng (神明), the luminous radiance of spirit that shines through the eyes, the voice, and the quality of one’s presence.

Stage 6: Reconnection and Relationship (通, tōng)

The spirit heals most fully in relationship. No matter how solitary the path may appear, the shén does not flourish in isolation. Daoist texts remind us again and again that the Dao is not a lonely void but a field of interbeing—the ten thousand things arising, dissolving, and influencing each other in one great, breathing continuum.

To be alive is to be in relationship; to be healed is to re-enter that flow without fear.

Stage 7: Returning to Dao (归, guī)

The culmination of healing is not merely recovery. It is return. In Daoist cultivation, the final stage is called guī dào (归道), the return to the Source.

Here the practitioner recognizes that the spirit (shén), once fractured, guarded, or obscured, was never damaged in essence. What was experienced as brokenness was only concealment, like a radiant pearl hidden beneath layers of mud. The work of healing reveals what was always there.

learn the form
seek the formless
hear the soundless
learn it all
forget it all
learn the Way
find your way

What's included?

7 Two-hour Live Instructional Sessions

Every 4-weeks attend a 2-hour live training where new material is shared and integrated.

7 One-hour Live
Practice Sessions

1-hour practice sessions

between instructional sessions.

Recordings

If you miss a class or practice, you can watch later at your convenience.

1 Year Access

You will have 1 year access to recordings and materials after the end of the course.

Discounted Private Training

Take advantage of special pricing for private training and tailored guidance to discuss your practice once a month for $35 per 1/2 hour (normally $200 per hour). Email for scheduling.

Downloadable Materials

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800-848-0649

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International Medical Qigong College

Temple of Peace and Virtue

Journey to Forgiveness

Alternate Wednesdays,
Beginning March 4th, 2026, 6:00 - 8:00pm CT

Save $200 Early Early Registration
until December 31st.
Use: Forgiveness20

Save $100 Early Registration
until January 31st.
Use: Forgiveness10

Here is the path we will follow:

Stage 1: Safety and Grounding (安, ān)

Stage 2: Softening Defenses (解, jiě)

Stage 3: Reconciling the False Spirit (正, zhèng)

Stage 4: Gathering the Fragments (合, hé)

Stage 5: Reigniting Vitality (明, míng)

Stage 6: Reconnection and Relationship (通, tōng)

Stage 7: Returning to Dao (归, guī)

What's included?

7 Two-hour Live Instructional Sessions

7 One-hour Live
Practice Sessions

Recordings

1 Year Access

Discounted Private Training

Downloadable Materials

When is the training?

Get in touch

International Medical Qigong College

Temple of Peace and Virtue

Journey to Forgiveness

Alternate Wednesdays,Beginning March 4th, 2026, 6:00 - 8:00pm CT

Save $200 Early Early Registrationuntil December 31st. Use: Forgiveness20Save $100 Early Registrationuntil January 31st. Use: Forgiveness10

Here is the path we will follow:

Stage 1: Safety and Grounding (安, ān)

Stage 2: Softening Defenses (解, jiě)

Stage 3: Reconciling the False Spirit (正, zhèng)

Stage 4: Gathering the Fragments (合, hé)

Stage 5: Reigniting Vitality (明, míng)

Stage 6: Reconnection and Relationship (通, tōng)

Stage 7: Returning to Dao (归, guī)

What's included?

7 Two-hour Live Instructional Sessions

7 One-hour Live Practice Sessions

Recordings

1 Year Access

Discounted Private Training

Downloadable Materials

When is the training?

Get in touch

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Alternate Wednesdays,
Beginning March 4th, 2026, 6:00 - 8:00pm CT

Save $200 Early Early Registration
until December 31st.
Use: Forgiveness20

Save $100 Early Registration
until January 31st.
Use: Forgiveness10

7 One-hour Live
Practice Sessions