Master Mingtong Media Kit

A global teacher and visionary of embodied awakening, Master Mingtong Gu helps leaders, seekers, and healers reclaim their innate energy and clarity in an accelerating world—awakening presence, compassion, and power from within.

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Signature Speaking Topics

Longevity Through Living Energy

Integrating Qigong with modern research to add vibrant years, not just years.

Healing & Awakening: One Seamless Journey

Why physical recovery and spiritual realization are two sides of the same movement.

Embodied Awakening in the Age of AI

Reclaiming presence and wisdom while technology accelerates everything around us.

Activate Your Inner Healer, Lead from Your Inner Master

Turning self-repair into inspired leadership and service.

Align Your Energy with Soul Purpose

Transforming scattered effort into coherent, mission-powered momentum.

Short Bio

Master Mingtong Gu is an internationally respected teacher of Wisdom Healing Qigong and founder of The Chi Center and Southwest Sanctuary in New Mexico. Trained in China under Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming, he brings the medicine-less Qigong hospital lineage to modern seekers, offering Qigong as both a spiritual path and science-based method for activating the body’s innate healing. He was honored as “Master of the Year” by 13th World Tachi and Qigong Congress. Through retreats, online programs, and global summits, he has guided tens of thousands in transforming trauma, chronic illness, and emotional fatigue into embodied vitality and awakened presence. His mission is to cultivate a worldwide community that lives, leads, and loves from fully embodied wisdom.

Mission Statement

“Coming Home to Embodied Awakening: reclaim power, connection, and presence in the Age of AI through Wisdom Healing Qigong and a growing global community.”

Endorsements

"Master Mingtong is full of vitality, wisdom, and skill. He is a real healer and the practices he teaches can change your life."

"I came away from a retreat with Master Mingtong filled with a wonderful sense of aliveness, wakefulness, and openheartedness. He is a compassionate healer, a wise teacher, and a real force for transformation in today's world. "

"Master Mingtong Gu has brought a level of transmission of mind-body practice that is unparalleled in my experience. Since making these teachings available to patients in my medical practice, they have become healthier and happier."

"Master Mingtong Gu is the real deal. He is a teacher who is living his teaching. When I am in his presence, I can feel his inner bliss permeate my heart. As I practice his easy Qigong techniques, I am finding my days are much more aligned and effortless"

"Master Mingtong Gu is an exquisite embodiment of being "happy for no reason." I've had the great pleasure of taking courses from Master Mingtong Gu, and I continue to receive wonderful benefits from those courses and experience better health and a more joyful life. His message is a true blessing to our world, which is in need of more happy Chi!

“Spending one day with Mingtong is like stepping into an energetic doorway where the impossible starts to feel inevitable. What I thought was just a ‘practice’ became a portal—he doesn’t teach change, he transmits a field that changes you. In just hours, I experienced a turning point I’d been circling for years, awakening something ancient, alive, and deeply relevant to the leader—and human—I am becoming.”

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Master Mingtong's Bios

For the leadership community and program

Master Mingtong Gu is a visionary leader and spiritual teacher known for his calm presence, joyful wisdom, and grounded clarity. Trained at the renowned medicineless Qigong hospital in China, he carries the lineage of Wisdom Healing Qigong, offering ancient energy practices for modern transformation.

Influenced by Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, and Shamanic traditions, Mingtong bridges timeless inner technologies with today’s leadership challenges. He’s been a featured teacher at Spirit Rock, Esalen, Omega, Kripalu, and has appeared on PBS, Wisdom 2.0, and The Shift Network.

Mingtong founded The Chi Center to teach Qigong globally, and later established Southwest Sanctuary, a 150-acre retreat center near Santa Fe devoted to earth-based and embodiment traditions, built without outside investment.

He leads a global movement:
“Coming Home to Embodied Awakening: Reclaim Your Power, Connection, and Presence in the Age of AI.”
This work calls us to awaken the inner healer and inner leader and reclaim our full humanity.

At the intersection of energy wisdom and somatic leadership, Mingtong offers not performance, but presence. Not escape, but return to the wholeness.

General Public Bio

Master Mingtong Gu is a globally respected teacher and healer, known for bringing the ancient wisdom of Qigong into the modern world with extraordinary accessibility and depth. As a lineage master teacher of Wisdom Healing Qigong, trained by Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming, he transmits not only movement—but living energy.

Born in rural China, raised in separation from his birth parents, and educated across East and West, Mingtong bridges worlds—science and spirit, tradition and innovation, body and soul. As founder of The Chi Center and The Southwest Sanctuary, his work touches people seeking healing, purpose, and spiritual awakening.

He reminds us: healing is possible. Awakening is here. And Qi—the original intelligence of life—is within us all.

Media Bio (Press, Podcast, Event Programs)

Master Mingtong Gu is an internationally recognized teacher of Wisdom Healing Qigong, founder of The Chi Center and The Southwest Sanctuary, and a leading voice in mind-body medicine, energy healing, and consciousness evolution.

Trained in the lineage of Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming, Mingtong integrates Eastern healing traditions with contemporary needs, offering Qigong as both a spiritual practice and a scientific system for activating the body’s innate healing capacity.

A sought-after speaker, teacher, and healer, he has been featured in documentaries, summits, and platforms reaching hundreds of thousands worldwide. His work addresses trauma, chronic illness, emotional transformation, and spiritual awakening through the embodied energy of Qi.

Collaborators & Strategic Partners Bio (Professional & Visionary Networks)

Master Mingtong Gu is a visionary teacher, lineage carrier of Wisdom Healing Qigong, and founder of The Chi Center and The Southwest Sanctuary—a global destination for energetic healing and conscious evolution.

With advanced degrees from both China and UC San Diego, and deep roots in Tibetan Buddhism and Wisdom Healing Qigong, Mingtong bridges disciplines to offer a unique approach to embodied awakening. His methodology supports transformation across wellness, leadership, community resilience, and spiritual development.

He partners with organizations, thought leaders, and mission-driven collaborators to integrate ancient energetic principles with the future of healing, education, and planetary regeneration. His guiding belief: when Qi flows freely—so do we, as individuals and as a humanity in collective transition.

My story

I am Master Mingtong Gu — an internationally respected teacher, healer, and lineage holder of Wisdom Healing Qigong. My life’s work is to help people reclaim their energetic wholeness, soul purpose, and embodied leadership — especially in this era of deep planetary change and rapid AI acceleration.

Educated in both the East and West, I hold degrees in mathematics from UC San Diego and Hangzhou University, and an MFA in Fine Arts from Ohio State University. My spiritual path deepened when I returned to China to study directly with Dr. Pang Ming at the Medicine-less Qigong Hospital, where I witnessed thousands heal through consciousness, community, and Qi — without conventional medicine.

In 2003, I founded The Chi Center, and in 2016, I opened the Wisdom Healing Qigong Retreat Center in Santa Fe, now evolved into SWS: The Southwest Sanctuary — a movement field for embodied awakening, energetic healing, and soul-rooted leadership.

Contact

Email

media@chicenter.com

Phone

+1 (505) 557-9004

Website

mingtonggu.com