Ba Gua Intensive Weekend Retreat
November 13th-15th
Held at Vijayaloka Retreat Centre in a beautiful bush setting on the George's River.
$200
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Ba Gua Intensive Weekend Retreat
November 13th-15th
Held at Vijayaloka Retreat Centre in a beautiful bush setting on the George's River.
$200
This intensive retreat experience will introduce you to the internal martial art of Ba Gua Zhang. Ba Gua is a powerful and comprehensive Daoist method of actualizing your inherent internal potential.
The retreat runs from Friday night to Sunday morning, and adheres to the buddhist tradition of a working retreat. This both adds to the depth of your experience and keeps the cost at an affordable level for all. If you are experiencing financial hardship and would like to talk about options for a concession price please reach out to Thad directly at Thad@martialwellness.net.
This retreat partners with the Sydney Buddhist Centre’s 11th step meditation in recovery leader, Guy Holden. Recovery is also a significant part of Thad’s history, and on this retreat we will explore some of the parallel principles between Daoism, Buddhism and 12 step based recovery.
The concentrated Ba Gua training on this retreat will dive deeply into a range of practices in the system. You will leave with the knowledge and support to continue practicing and improving after the retreat. A regular Ba Gua practice powerfully complements living a good life through cultivating the 3 pillars:
Health & longevity. Regular Ba Gua practice essentially becomes like a regular Chinese medicine micro treatment. This strengthens muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones, while simultaneously harmonizing the functions of the internal organs, stimulating the brain and nervous system, and unblocking the meridians.
Martial skill. This is the demonstrable ability to both receive pressure with effortless resilience, and deliver power in an unforced and natural way. This applies well beyond combat applications, manifesting as an improved ability to face the inevitable ups and downs of life with more grace, peace and connectedness.
Spiritual awakening. Practicing Ba Gua will forge an “indomitable spirit”. This natural resilience emerges over time from a deeper connection to the Dao and its felt presence within you. Ba Gua leads you directly to this reconnection to source through the tangible and substantial path of the body, giving it a practicality that is often refreshing and powerful.
Registering for the retreat will give you access to a series of recorded classes that we highly recommend engaging with before the retreat in order to drive the most benefit from the experience. For that reason it is strongly recommended that you immediately engage with these training videos so you have time to explore and directly experience some of the principles before the retreat.
There will also be follow up videos and notes provided after the retreat to help ensure you can engage with the practice in an effective way after leaving the retreat.