Coming Home to Embodied Awakening Summit 2026 – Hosted by Master Mingtong Gu
When life is filled with screens, information, demands, and constant stimulation, it can become surprisingly easy to understand a great deal while still feeling disconnected from your own body.
This five-day global gathering offers a more experiential path. Master Mingtong Gu and a wide-ranging circle of teachers, scientists, wisdom holders, leaders, and practitioners explore embodiment through guided Qigong, conversation, music, story, reflection, and gentle movement.
The focus is not simply on collecting more ideas. You are invited to explore practical ways of reconnecting with sensation, presence, emotional regulation, inner stability, relationship, leadership, nature, and the meeting point between ancient wisdom and modern science.
Each day follows a deliberate ceremonial rhythm so that learning can be accompanied by direct practice and integration. You can participate at your own pace and focus on the sessions and practices that feel most relevant to you.
Why Attend Coming Home to Embodied Awakening Summit
Many people have spent years reading, learning, meditating, reflecting, or doing personal-growth work and still notice that the body can remain tense, overstimulated, guarded, or difficult to settle. This summit explores what changes when the body becomes an active part of awareness rather than something left behind while the mind gathers more information.
The experience combines guided Wisdom Healing Qigong with conversations on mindfulness, breath, trauma-informed integration, compassion, leadership, Earth-based wisdom, consciousness, heart coherence, and other dimensions of embodied living. Music, true stories, reflection, and movement are woven into the program so that participants have opportunities to experience ideas rather than only hear about them.
The five-day journey is also shaped by a wider question about how people remain grounded and fully human during a period of rapidly accelerating technology and information. Rather than treating technology as the enemy, the summit places renewed attention on the body, presence, relationship, inner stability, and practical embodiment skills that can support daily life.
Who Should Attend Coming Home to Embodied Awakening Summit
This summit is for people who want to reconnect with their bodies and explore practical embodiment skills in an experiential setting. No prior Qigong, meditation, or embodiment experience is required.
The speakers come from spiritual practice, health education, leadership, science, personal development, Indigenous wisdom, creative work, and related fields, making the gathering relevant to both longtime practitioners and people who are beginning to explore mind-body approaches.
- Healers, therapists, and facilitators who want to deepen their work through embodied practice
- Teachers, leaders, and professionals navigating stress, responsibility, and constant demands
- Artists, musicians, and creatives seeking greater presence and creative flow
- Scientists, clinicians, and researchers interested in the mind-body connection
- Spiritual practitioners ready to bring inner work more fully into daily lived experience
- People who feel overstimulated or disconnected and want to explore greater groundedness
- Anyone curious about Wisdom Healing Qigong, breath, mindfulness, movement, and embodied awareness
- People interested in staying connected to their humanity in an increasingly technology-driven world
What You’ll Learn During Coming Home to Embodied Awakening Summit
The summit explores embodiment as something that can be practiced rather than only understood. Guided sessions invite you to notice breath, sensation, movement, attention, emotional patterns, and your relationship with the world around you.
You will also hear from teachers working across mindfulness, Qigong, trauma-informed integration, leadership, compassion, conscious evolution, Earth traditions, epigenetics, heart coherence, and other fields. Their perspectives differ, but each day brings the conversation back to lived experience.
The intention is to give you practical ideas and practices that can be explored in ordinary life. Health-related material is educational and can complement, but not replace, individualized guidance from qualified medical or mental-health professionals.
- Ways to reconnect with the body as a source of sensation, awareness, and lived experience
- How guided Qigong can combine relaxation, breath, awareness, and gentle movement
- Perspectives on mindfulness that are rooted in the body rather than performance
- How breath practices can bridge ancient contemplative traditions and modern physiology
- How trauma-informed approaches relate to safety, belonging, mindfulness, and emotional regulation
- Ways compassion and relationship can be explored as embodied practices
- How leadership can arise from presence, steadiness, responsibility, and service
- Perspectives on Earth connection, stewardship, lineage, ceremony, and living systems
- How speakers connect ancient wisdom with topics such as epigenetics, consciousness, and heart coherence
- How music, story, silence, reflection, and gentle movement can support integration after learning
The Daily Ceremonial Rhythm: Practice, Dialogue, Music, Story and Integration
Each summit day follows a consistent embodied rhythm designed to move the experience beyond passive content consumption. Master Mingtong Gu anchors the five-day journey, and each day begins by establishing the theme through embodied teaching and guided practice.
From there, the experience opens into conversation with invited teachers, music and song, a lived human story, and a closing period of integration. The rhythm creates space to pause, feel, reflect, and practice instead of immediately moving from one idea to the next.
This structure is central to the summit’s emphasis on direct experience. Rather than asking you to memorize every idea, it gives you repeated opportunities to notice what happens when attention returns to the body.
- Opening Transmission: Embodied teaching and guided practice
- Living Dialogue: Presence-based conversations with invited teachers
- Music and Song: Sound used as part of the embodied experience
- True Story: Lived human experiences of embodied awakening
- Guided Integration: Reflection, silence, or gentle movement
Featured Speakers and What They Cover
The summit brings together voices from contemplative practice, personal development, breathwork, leadership, science, Earth traditions, Qigong, trauma-informed education, and consciousness studies. The selections below highlight several of the perspectives woven through the five-day journey.
Jon Kabat-Zinn — Mindfulness and Embodied Awareness
Jon Kabat-Zinn contributes a perspective on mindfulness rooted in the body, with attention to presence rather than performance.
Tara Brach — Radical Compassion and Mindful Presence
Tara Brach explores radical compassion as a lived experience, connecting mindful presence with the way compassion is felt in the nervous system and body.
Niraj Naik — Breathwork and the Ancient-Modern Bridge
Niraj Naik explores breath as a bridge between ancient pranayama traditions and modern physiology.
Lee Holden — Qigong and Taoist Practice
Lee Holden brings Qigong into the conversation as an accessible form of lived embodiment and Taoist practice.
Marci Shimoff — Joy and Heart Intelligence
Marci Shimoff contributes a perspective on joy, relationship, and heart-centered living within the summit’s day focused on safety and belonging.
Jack Canfield and Chip Conley — Leadership, Purpose and Elderhood
Jack Canfield explores transformational and values-based leadership, while Chip Conley contributes perspectives on modern elderhood and wisdom at work.
Lynne Twist and Grandmother Flordemayo — Stewardship and Earth Wisdom
Lynne Twist explores ethical service and stewardship, while Grandmother Flordemayo brings Indigenous wisdom and Earth-centered perspectives to the gathering.
Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden — Biology, Coherence and Ancient Wisdom
Bruce Lipton contributes a perspective on epigenetics and belief as biology, while Gregg Braden explores heart coherence and ancient texts.
Marie Diamond — Environment and Consciousness
Marie Diamond explores conscious environments and the relationship between surroundings, awareness, and flow.
Alex Howard — Trauma-Informed Integration
Alex Howard contributes a perspective connecting chronic illness, trauma, and integration within the summit’s broader educational exploration of embodiment and regulation.
Summit Schedule and Daily Themes
The summit starts Monday and unfolds through five distinct themes. Master Mingtong Gu anchors each day, with invited voices, music, story, and guided integration supporting the daily focus.
You can follow the full five-day arc or prioritize the themes that feel most relevant to your current interests. Check your email after registration for viewing links and schedule updates.
Day 1 – Embodied Mind-Body-Spirit: Coming Home to the Body
- Core theme: The body as living intelligence, sensation as a source of information, and presence as a foundation for embodied awareness
- Featured voices: Jon Kabat-Zinn, Niraj Naik, Lee Holden, Michael Stone, and Tara Brach
- Topics include: Body-based mindfulness, breathwork, Qigong, inner guidance, radical compassion, music, story, and gentle integration
Day 2 – Healing Trauma and Embodied Relationship: Coming Home to Safety and Belonging
- Core theme: Exploring safety, relationship, belonging, trauma-informed practice, and emotional regulation through an embodied lens
- Featured voices: Marci Shimoff, Fleet Maull, Alex Howard, Janet Attwood, and Dawson Church
- Topics include: Joy, restorative presence, chronic illness and trauma-informed integration, lived relational practice, EFT, emotional regulation, music, and somatic settling
Day 3 – Community and Embodied Leadership: Coming Home to Service and Stewardship
- Core theme: Leadership that arises from regulated presence, responsibility, contribution, and service
- Featured voices: Jack Canfield, Chip Conley, Stephen Dinan, Ken Honda, John Assaraf, and Debra Poneman
- Topics include: Transformational leadership, elderhood, conscious evolution, money and relational flow, mindset embodied into action, inner stillness, and contribution
Day 4 – Earth Traditions and Nature-Based Healing: Coming Home to the Earth
- Core theme: The relationship between the human body, the Earth, lineage, land, reciprocity, and living systems
- Featured voices: Lynne Twist, Grandmother Flordemayo, Alberto Villoldo, Fred Puma, Dr. Marie Mbouni, and Ocean Robbins
- Topics include: Stewardship, Indigenous wisdom, shamanic lineage, ceremony, systems medicine, food, collective health, music, story, and grounding practices
Day 5 – Ancient Wisdom and New Science: The Ancient Future of Humanity
- Core theme: The body as a bridge between lineage and the future, with an emphasis on translating lived wisdom into shared language
- Featured voices: Bruce Lipton, Sue Morter, Suzanne Giesemann, Marie Diamond, and Gregg Braden
- Topics include: Epigenetics, energy mastery, consciousness inquiry, conscious environments, heart coherence, ancient texts, music, story, and guided integration
Dates, Access, Replays and Where to Watch
Coming Home to Embodied Awakening is a free online summit that starts Monday and continues for five days, with new sessions released across the journey.
Check your email after registration for viewing links, access details, reminders, and schedule updates. The summit is designed for online participation, allowing people around the world to join the gathering remotely.
An optional $47 VIP Pass is also available separately and includes lifetime access to all summit sessions.
- Register with an email address you check regularly
- Watch for the welcome and access messages after registration
- Keep the summit email thread easy to find throughout the five days
- Review the daily themes so you can prioritize the sessions most relevant to you
- Consider the optional VIP Pass if lifetime access to the summit sessions is important to you
How to Register for Coming Home to Embodied Awakening Summit
Click any Register Here For Free button on this page, enter your contact information, and check your email for access details.
How to Get the Most From the Summit
Five days of teachers, practices, music, stories, and reflection can offer a great deal to explore. You do not need to absorb every idea for the experience to be meaningful.
Use the summit’s daily rhythm to stay selective and experiential. The most useful approach may be to choose a few themes, actually participate in the practices, and leave enough space afterward to notice what you experienced.
1. Follow the Body, Not Just the Speaker List
Choose sessions because the theme feels relevant to your life, not only because you recognize a speaker’s name.
2. Participate in the Guided Practices
The summit is designed as a practice-based experience. When possible, give the Qigong, breath, reflection, and gentle-movement elements your attention rather than treating them as material to skip between interviews.
3. Leave Space for Integration
- Notice one idea or sensation that stayed with you after a session
- Write down one practice you may want to revisit
- Allow a few quiet moments before immediately moving to more content
4. Use the Five Themes as a Map
Body awareness, safety and relationship, embodied leadership, Earth connection, and ancient wisdom meeting new science each provide a different entry point into the summit.
5. Keep Health Information in Context
Use health-related sessions for education and reflection. Bring individualized medical, psychological, nutritional, or treatment questions to appropriately qualified professionals who know your circumstances.
About Master Mingtong Gu and The Chi Center
Master Mingtong Gu is a lineage holder of Wisdom Healing Qigong, founder of The Chi Center, a teacher and author, and the initiator of the Coming Home Movement. He was named Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress on Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
His path began in China during the Cultural Revolution. He became the first person from his village to attend college and later earned two master’s degrees in the United States.
His studies brought him deeply into Taoism, Buddhism, and Qigong. In 1997, he trained under Dr. Pang Ming, founder of a large Qigong center in China, and he later dedicated his teaching work to Wisdom Healing Qigong and embodied practice.
Coming Home to Embodied Awakening grows from his concern about the effect rapid technological change can have on attention, bodily awareness, and inner stability. Through The Chi Center and this gathering, he brings together guided practice with voices from mindfulness, science, leadership, healing traditions, music, and contemplative life.
Reviews and Testimonials
“Master Mingtong Gu makes it all very personal. His tangible emotion and compassion is revealed in every word, sound and movement. My heart is so deeply touched.”
Free Gifts and Bonuses Included With Registration
Free registration includes the five-day summit experience along with additional teachings and resources from Master Mingtong Gu and The Chi Center. These bonuses extend several of the summit’s central themes into guided practices and written material you can revisit.
Pure Energy Flow
A Qigong Movement Meditation for Holistic Purification and Oneness with Master Mingtong Gu. This guided session uses relaxation, breath, and gentle movement as part of a daily embodiment practice.
Three Levels of Healing
A 20-minute teaching with Master Mingtong Gu exploring three stages presented as symptom relief, restoring balance, and coming home to the body.
The Ancient Technology for the Age of AI
A core teaching and guided practice introducing Wisdom Healing Qigong and exploring why embodied practices can be relevant in a technology-driven world.
Unlock the Power of AI for Your Soul Purpose
The Complete Playbook for Conscious AI Practice is an eBook focused on using AI while remaining grounded, present, connected to your values, and attentive to inner stability.
Coming Home to Embodied Awakening
A free chapter and selected excerpts introducing principles of embodiment and Wisdom Healing Qigong, with practical ideas intended for reflection and daily life.
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Register for Coming Home to Embodied Awakening to join Master Mingtong Gu and the invited teachers for five days of guided practice, conversation, music, story, and integration starting Monday.
- Nov 16 - 20 2026
- 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
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- Date: Nov 16 - 20 2026
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