FOUNDATIONS IN QI GONG
Experience the profound benefits of Qi Gong for health, healing, spiritual development and nervous system regulation
Learn the fundamental principles of taoist alchemy weaving in multiple lineages for a foundational practice of Qi Gong that you can bring into your daily life & practice
APRIL 29 & 30th at HOLOS in Diamonte Valley, Costa Rica
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Why Costa Rica?, Why Holos?
I have found Costa Rica one of the most VIBRANT and ALIVE places on earth, Making it a tremendously rewarding space to practice (and learn) Qi Gong. HOLOS is a stunning space, with multiple water falls, gardens, and movement Shala overlooking the stunning 360º surroundings at the very sacred center of the Diamante valley.
It is my intention to add as much value as possible and share my deep passion for healing through Qi Gong to enhance your life on so many levels. I’ve chosen to break this immersive learning down into two days (four 2 hour sessions) to allow the information and transmissions to land and integrate without over-saturating anyone’s nervous systems. Each session and practice will build upon the other taking you deeper & deeper into the heart of these teachings and yourself.
Come away from this retreat with an embodied understanding and lived experience of the vital life force (QI) and how to cultivate, store & utilize it for healing, spiritual advancement, balance, nervous system regulation, longevity, self-love, inner harmony and shamanic enhancement.
Join a pristine setting and learn powerful practices that you can continue to develop way beyond the retreat / incorporate into your daily life
You will have access to the comprehensive learning videos (1 year free access) after, as well as a comprehensive digital or print PDF with amazing designs that I hand created to dive even deeper before and after the retreat.
The Profound Benefits of Qi Gong
Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese practice that blends movement, breath, meditation & sometimes incorporates visualization and sound to cultivate and balance life force energy, or “Qi”. This holistic practice is known for its profound benefits on the body, mind, and spirit, promoting overall wellness, spiritual development and inner confidence at a bio-energetic level.
Regular practice of Qi Gong helps to:
Transmute Stress into Stillness
Qi Gong soothes the nervous system and calms the mind, shifting brainwave states into deep relaxation. Through breath, movement, and intention, it dissolves stress, releasing stagnation in the body and promoting a state of dynamic inner peace.
Awaken the Vital Force
By harmonizing breath with movement, Qi Gong cultivates and refines Qi (life force energy), revitalizing the body’s organs and meridians. This infusion of prana increases stamina, enhances focus, and generates a steady wellspring of energy throughout the day.
Expand Flexibility & Structural Integrity
The gentle yet potent movements of Qi Gong lubricate the joints, stimulate synovial fluid production, and realign the body’s structure. By opening the fascial matrix, it enhances mobility, balance, and core stability, returning the body to its natural state of ease and fluidity.
Activate Circulation & Detoxification
Through deep diaphragmatic breathing and intentional movement, Qi Gong invigorates the flow of blood, lymph, and Qi, unlocking energetic blockages and clearing toxins from the system. The 12 primary meridians—pathways of bioelectric energy—become harmonized, allowing the body’s natural healing intelligence to awaken.
Harmonize Emotions & Clear Energetic Imprints
Qi Gong integrates breath, intention, and movement to transmute emotional stagnation stored within the five organ systems (lungs, liver, heart, spleen, kidneys). Each movement serves as an alchemical process—unraveling old energetic patterns or trauma, cultivating resilience, and restoring emotional equilibrium.
Cultivate Longevity & Inner Alchemy
Qi Gong is an ancient practice of self-cultivation, designed not only to heal but to expand the life force and extend vitality. By attuning to the rhythms of nature and circulating Qi regularly to prevent stagnation, practitioners unlock deeper states of awareness, presence, and longevity.
The Science Behind Taoist Alchemy
Taoist Alchemy is the ancient art of transformation, not just on the physical level, but within the mind and spirit as well. Rooted in Taoist philosophy, this practice blends spiritual teachings with Qi Gong and meditation to align one’s energy with the natural rhythms of the universe. At its core, Taoist Alchemy teaches us how to harness Qi (life force energy) to cultivate health, longevity, and wisdom.
Just like the early Yogis, the original Toaist deeply observed nature. They understood the seasons of life and how to align with the flow.. The current of creation. Much of the cultivation practice was designed toward living a long healthy life so one’s spiritual practice could deepen with sound mind and body.
The foundation of Taoist Alchemy is based on the concept of balancing the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water) and purifying the energy centers (or dantians) (similar to chakras) within the body. By transforming the internal environment through mindful practices like Qi Gong, we are able to clear blockages, harmonize our energy systems, and restore vitality.
Modern science recognizes that energy flows through the body in a manner similar to electrical currents. The use of breath, movement, and visualization in Taoist Alchemy has been shown to have a positive effect on the body’s autonomic nervous system, promoting relaxation, improving circulation, and activating the body’s natural healing mechanisms.
Through Taoist Alchemy, we are able to harmonize body and mind, enhancing our life experience and reconnecting with the profound wisdom of nature, making Taoism an original shamanic practice that enhances one’s own direct relationship with the life force, cosmology, elements and pathways of aliveness.
The 8 Brocades Practice
The 8 Brocades, or Ba Duan Jin, is a series of eight Qi Gong exercises designed to cultivate vitality and strengthen the body’s energy systems. This practice has been used for centuries to enhance overall health and well-being. The movements are smooth and simple, yet deeply powerful in their ability to strengthen the internal organs and promote a balanced flow of Qi throughout the body.
Each of the eight exercises targets specific areas of the body, enhancing the function of the internal organs, improving flexibility, and promoting relaxation. The practice focuses on breathing techniques that activate energy centers, helping to regulate the body’s energy flow.
The 8 Brocades is something I would call “Taoist Yoga”, as it incorporates more stretches, focus on tendons, ligaments and posture while also incorporating a nice balance of strengthening and gentle flowing movement. It is a truly balanced practice for those seeking a foundational practice. It will be one of the two main movement practices taught in the retreat.
Benefits of the 8 Brocades:
Increases flexibility and mobility
Enhances the function of vital organs & immune system
Improves posture and balance
Promotes emotional calm and clarity
Reduces stress and fatigue
Develops a “peaceful warrior” attitude and inner confidence
Prepares the body for martial arts
5 Elements Qi Gong / Organ Cleansing Medical Qi Gong
5 Elements Qi Gong, also known as Wu Xing Qi Gong, is a practice that harmonizes the body’s internal energies with the five natural elements—wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Each element is linked to specific internal organs and energy pathways, and by working with these elements, practitioners are able to clear emotional blockages, restore balance, promote optimal well being, and develop a more regulated nervous system. This is one of the most simple yet profound alchemy practices that is extremely helpful for moving emotional energy and alchemizing challenging emotions, a must-have in these times.
How it works:
In the 5 Elements practice, movements, breath, and sound are used to activate the Qi associated with each element and organ. Each element is tied to an organ and its corresponding emotional state.This simple yet profound movements, sounds and visualizations can deeply cleanse and nourish our organs, helping to release emotional stagnation, trauma, physical tension, and energetic blockages. The teachings on this practice alone has 5 levels of development. You will gain a comprehensive understanding that will continue to grow beyond the retreat.
Wood – Liver & Gallbladder – Associated with the energy of growth, planning, and anger.
Fire – Heart & Small Intestine – Associated with love, joy, and compassion.
Earth – Spleen & Stomach – Associated with nurturing, grounding, and worry.
Metal – Lungs & Large Intestine – Associated with grief, sadness, and courage.
Water – Kidneys & Bladder – Associated with fear, shame and longevity.
Benefits:
Supports detoxification and cleansing of the internal organs
Improves energy flow and balance
Helps release emotional blockages, trauma and stress
Promotes deep relaxation and healing
Enhances longevity and vitality
Cultivates deep inner peace, self love and awakens ones inner healer
Medical Qi Gong is often used to treat a variety of health concerns by addressing the root causes of illness rather than merely treating symptoms. It’s a powerful healing tool that works in alignment with both traditional Chinese medicine and modern health practices.
Other teachings, techniques and overview of the retreat :
There are so many styles of Qi Gong and techniques I’ve learned over 24 years of immersive study.
I have found that these two systems are completely comprehensive, complementary and work for both beginner, intermediate and advanced practitioners. I will be diving deeply into the foundational teachings of Qi Gong & Taoist alchemy that we weave into not only these practices but more if you choose to continue your Qi cultivation practice. Essentially expect to learn the 8 brocades, 5 Elemental Qi Gong, 2 powerful meditation techniques, 3 Powerful breathing techniques and so much more that I couldn’t begin to describe here, you just have to dive in and experience for yourself!
Join Us at HOLOS, DIAMONTE, COSTA RICA
Sessions will be from
9:30 – 11:30am
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1:30 – 3:30pm
Food options for locals residents will be pay-as-you-go, per-meal if you are commuting, and for retreat guest participants, you must book / pay in advance
Retreat Bonus : 29th Opening night : Sacred Fire with song, sharing circle and story (included)
Retreat Bonus : Sacred Tea Ceremony 30th evening and deep dive with Luke Kohen + Friends (see add ons – limited space)
Investment
Price of the training is 525 – 950 Sliding Scale
I felt generous with this retreat. I wanted to make it accessible to as many people as possible. The value of this course is much higher, so please tune in and feel what you can genuinely contribute from the options below.
Add ons
1 on 1 Healing Session and more detailed support from Luke
Bonus Adventure, Qi Gong nature Immersion, Waterfall excursion and Tea Ceremony 30th (Next day)
(Both Add ons – Includes Main Retreat)
Food, Accommodation & Travel is NOT included
Diamonte is within what is known as the “sacred triangle” in the region of Puntarenas. It is about 4 hours from San Jose via taxi.
ACCOMODATIONS at HOLOS are $136 per night, which includes food + accomodation. Space is available from the 28th-1st
To book Accomodations at Holos:
:::: Please PayPal > Friends and family for the amount of nights you will stay with the subject “QI GONG” : to @holosglobal ::::
Check out on the first of May is at 11am
If you need support arranging a Taxi, or have any other questions. You can contact HOLOS
Take the first step towards a more balanced, vibrant life, deepen your spiritual and self-healing journey with the timeless tools of Toaist Alchemy & Qi Gong
Luke Kohen’s Qi Gong Story / Bio
Luke Kohen had a spiritual and physical healing crisis at the age of 22 after practicing a rare ancient Indian martial art from the age of 13. A spinal injury & nervous system burn out put him into ego-devastation, where he went from an agile martial artist & competitive athlete, to walking with a cane almost overnight.
The experience forced him inward. While drinking tea one day out of a cast iron tea-pot Luke entered what he calls “the living stillness of the Universe” for the first time, connected to a version of himself as a taoist hermit in a cave from a past life and returned from this profound peak experience altered in the awareness of his soul & where it had been in the background his entire life.
Luke graduated University, and went right to India with a fire in his soul and never looked back.
He eventually healed himself and began to help others.
20 years later he shares his refined approach through multiple lineages, including 15 years in bioenergetics therapy, and other trauma-healing / mystery school modalities. Luke has apprenticed with many masters from multiple lineages across the world and continues to deepen his relationship with Qi Gong, Tai Chi, TCM & Gong Fu Cha (Tea ceremony). He immerses in Dark Room retreats every year for a minimum of 8 days and travels to Asia to continue to deepen his practice.
Luke shares his passion for Qi Gong and Taoist Alchemy with a rare blend of depth, playfulness, and practicality—offering a grounded approach to these ancient arts for the unique times we live in.