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Upcoming Live Online Courses
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Fusion Meditation
Five Elemental Forces Inner Alchemy Meditations for a Better Humanity
Spring 2026
6 Fridays - 10:00am-12:00pm pacific time
March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17 - 2026
Join live and/or via recordings provided thru November 1, 2026.
FYI - This class only happens once per year!
The Human Consciousness Fusion Meditation, or Five Intelligences Inner Alchemy Meditation, is one of the highest forms of Taoist meditation. Originated by the now extinct White Cloud Taoist monks in China, this practice has been adapted to the modern Western mind to be more accessible to us all.
This practice will pacify the mind, elevate the spirit, and instigate healing from the deep seated emotional charges held in our bodies, so we can fully manifest the healthy development of our personal and collective humanity.
Gilles says: "The objective of the Spring 2026 Human Consciousness Fusion class is to help connect better with the sources of consciousness. We will integrate and explore deeper the biology of consciousness into an enhanced capacity to process our emotions, sharpen our minds, and uplift our spirits for mental fitness and greater life enjoyment!"
Recommended Prep:
1) Go through the central part of Gilles' book Five Elements, Six Conditions to learn to juggle with the mental and emotional aspects of the Five Elements.
2) Take the recent Biology of Consciousness course Gilles taught in Fall 2025 to better understand and prepare for the Fusion formulas to make them most effective for your inner growth.
Our Mind has 5 Intelligences, so "Mental Fitness" is not only our rational thinking! It is our whole self: Soul and Spirit: rational thinking, emotions, instinct, intuition, and sense of self, with practical applications in daily life.
During this guided meditation practice, you will learn to:
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Recognize the 5 Elemental Forces / Intelligences within.
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Practice the 4 specific formulas for mental optimization.
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Experience the 5th formula - the cherry on top of the Fusion cake!
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Dismantle negative emotions through internal alchemy.
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Gain understanding through alchemizing emotional disturbances and to create harmony in yourself again and again, thus enhancing your creative energies.
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Reduce experiencing abstractly - what you expect to experience, see, feel - but rather to feel, experience and see what actually is: growth, change, evolution, health.
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Gain insight into your internal and external universal energies, empowering you to truly digest your life experiences and strengthen your inner being.
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Be prepared for deep introversion, emotional exploration, and spiritual stimulation.
By Sliding Scale Donation: $99-$159
Class Video Recordings
for limited time streaming
SELF-CARE TaoTouch Chi Nei Tsang
Online Course
5 sessions from January-February 2026
Recordings provided - streamable through August 31st, 2026.
Instructor: Tiffiny Fyans, Senior Instructor & Practitioner
Tiffiny offers her annual TaoTouch Self-Care CNT with a fresh concept this year. Focusing on digestion, physically and emotionally, still with chi kung warmups and abdominal self-massage.
As the timing of this course coincides with a shift in the Chinese lunar new year, we digest the year of the Wood Snake- shedding skin, letting go of what doesn't serve us anymore, and getting ready the year of the Fire Horse in 2026.
We get in touch with the alimentary canal- aka the digestive tract- starting with the mouth, tongue, esophagus, stomach, and all the way down, including tips on digestion. Learn about and feel into our enzymes and supportive vital organs, palpate the abdominal area, support the lymphatic system, and free up the vagus nerve. We weave in the 5 elemental forces within, with their properties and virtues.
This nurturing class is perfectly suited for the winter season and the emotional digestion we do during dreamtime, especially potent in this Water time of year.
For beginners, reviewers and advanced practitioners - ie everyone!
Video recordings streamable thru August 31st, 2026.
By sliding scale donation: $99-$159
The Biology of Consciousness & the Five Elemental Forces
For Emotional Healing & Spiritual Guidance
Online Course via Zoom
6 session course from Fall 2025
Instructor: Gilles Marin
Gilles is bringing back this course for the first time in 3 years! This instance will be a class more oriented to the interactions of the mental and emotional aspects of the elemental forces within, with emphasis on emotional healing and spiritual guidance.
In this live online course, Gilles Marin deeply explores the elemental forces of nature that govern existence, including within ourselves, as we are part of nature. Understanding of this is foundational in preparing us to really integrate the hands-on healing modality of TaoTouch Chi Nei Tsang, as well as the internal Nei Kung practices of the Fusion Meditation and Dreaming Chi Kung. Ultimately it helps with our own healing and supporting the healing of those around us.
The approach helps transform conflict into support, internally and with others. It is oriented toward acquiring extraordinary powers in order to get extraordinary results in healing.
Video recordings streamable thru November 1st, 2026.
By sliding scale donation: $99-$159
TaoTouch Chi Kung - Online Course
Instructor: Gilles Marin
Two courses together: originally occurred Spring 2023 & Spring 2024.
Register now to gain access to the 10 video recordings, detailed class notes and other resources - accessible thru November 1st, 2026.
The TaoTouch (Taoist) Chi Kung Basics course focuses on the essence of internal alchemy during Chi Kung practice. It is a great initiation to the practice of Taoist internal alchemy for healing and mental, emotional and spiritual evolution.
These ancient methods powerfully harmonize your energy systems while promoting inner health and the ability to help others heal from within.
Training involves a deep connection with our "subconscious" for enhanced transformational results. This is done by connecting physical movement, breath, and personal emotional structures with the biology of consciousness.
This course includes a selection of the following topics:
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Introduction to the true holistic, whole-person approach to health and healing
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The Fountain of Life (aka Microcosmic Orbit) with its seven levels of individuation
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Taoist Meridian Daily Biological Clock
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Earth Relationship Chi Kung
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Bone Breathing Meditation
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Sleeping Chi Kung
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Dreaming Chi Kung
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Sunning Meditations
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Six Healing Sounds - upgraded version
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Yin and Yang energies' mental and emotional attributes
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Healing Buddha Palms
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The Biology of Consciousness - One Mind, Five Intelligences
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Emotional Digestion (2nd Formula of Fusion)
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and/or more!
Video recordings streamable thru November 1st, 2026.
By sliding scale donation for the two courses together: $120-$180
The Art of Seeing The Way of Existence through Cooking
Online Course via Zoom
6 session course from Spring 2025
Instructor: Gilles Marin
Learn from the best! Gilles Marin introduces us to his secrets of healthy and delicious home cooking. Most cooking classes are from the mindset of professional chefs in a commercial kitchen. However Gilles teaches simple, at home cooking, geared towards everyday life in regular kitchen setups. He shows us basic recipes such as omelettes and crepes, with a few fun items including fried bananas and flambé! He shows us tips, tricks, and how easy it can be to cook wholesome, nutritious and scrumptious meals at home in a practical, sustainable way.
Gilles brings to us his knowledge and wisdom from his heritage in French, Asian and California cuisine, while imparting his expertise in a Taoist approach to healing and life.
This course is accessible and open to people of all levels, including practitioners, students, clients and also anyone not familiar with Taoism or healing practices, but love to cook!
By Sliding Scale Donation: $99-$159
Video recordings streamable thru June 30, 2026, maybe longer.
Qi Meridian Movement & Massage - Online Course
Instructor: Kaleo & Elise Ching
Class originally occurred July-August 2024
New registrants get the 6 video recordings, detailed class notes
and other resources, accessible thru January 1, 2026.
We are grateful and excited to welcome back Kaleo and Elise Ching who will teach us these beautiful qigong (chi kung) practices. This course will be powerful, sweet and simply magical.
Qigong is an ancient Taoist shamanic practice grounded in Classical Chinese Medicine. In “Qi Meridian Movement and Massage” you will learn:
• Holistic qigong movement practices to engage the physiological, mental, and energetic systems of the body
• Meridian self-massage and related acupressure points to improve Qi and blood circulation - for self-care and with applications for your clients
• Qigong breathing techniques to benefit the internal organs of your body, and enhance mental performance
• The Aloha Qigong
• Guided shamanic journeys for the cultivation of deep wisdom from unseen realms
Enhance your Qi, Chi Nei Tsang practice, and inner spiritual practices through explorations of Acupoints, Zhan Zhuang Posture, Earth and Shaking Qigong, Microcosmic Orbit with its 7 Loops of Individuation, Column of Light, Aloha Qigong, Shamanic Practices and more!
By sliding scale donation: $90-$150
Monthly Members: You are auto enrolled - no need to re-register :)
Class Video Recordings
for downloading to your device(s)
How to Attack and Neutralize COVID-19 and other Pathogens
Online Class recorded live on July 3, 2020
Instructor: Gilles Marin
$10
Gilles discusses how to ward off infectious diseases and how to minimize impact if you think you may have caught something.
Drawing from his blog post on the subject, we more deeply explore this subject, including answers to students' questions.
TaoTouch Home Remedies for COVID-19 and Beyond
Online class recorded live on May 8, 2020
Instructor: Gilles Marin
Read Gilles' blog post on the subject here