Qigong Teacher Training

Qigong Teacher Training through Dao Mentorship

Dao Mentorship is where your training deepens and the pathway into Qigong Teacher Training takes shape. This training develops through consistent practice, guidance and a willingness to stay with your practice over time.

Through mentorship, your practice is refined and your understanding becomes embodied. You begin to see more clearly what you’re doing, how you’re listening with Qi and where your mind and focus needs to be.

At the beginning of mentorship, the direction of your training is established. The modules you move into and the pathways you follow are guided by your practice, your level of understanding and what you’re ready to develop.

This is where teaching begins to emerge, not as something you learn conceptually, but as something that develops through your own practice.

Mentorship accompanies your practice. It supports it, refines it and brings clarity to it.

The depth of your training is shaped by how you show up, how consistently you practise and how willing you are to engage with what’s actually happening in your body and awareness.

What’s included

Dao Mentorship takes place over nine months, allowing your practice to develop steadily through direct experience.

We meet monthly for mentorship sessions online, alongside your ongoing practice.

Your training draws from a body of study modules, with a focused selection guided by your practice and what you’re ready to develop.

This is a guided process, shaped around your practice as it evolves.

How the mentorship is held

Mentorship is offered online through one-to-one guidance and small group settings. Both provide structure, feedback and ongoing support as your practice and skill develops.

One-to-one mentorship allows your training to be shaped directly around your practice, with guidance that meets you where you are and responds to what is arising. This supports deeper refinement and a more tailored progression over time.

Small group mentorship takes place within a consistent group of practitioners moving through the training together. Alongside guidance and feedback, the group setting offers shared learning, reflection and the opportunity to see how the practice develops across different people.

Areas of study

Your training draws from a range of modules and pathways that support the development of your practice and your capacity to guide others. Rather than following a fixed sequence, the direction of your training is guided through mentorship, based on your practice and what you’re ready to deepen.

Integrated practice, foundations and Qi development

Developing sensitivity to Qi and awareness of the three subtle bodies through foundational forms and cultivation practices.
Some of the modules in this area of practice include *Natural Dao Qigong*, *Build your Qi: Three Bodies & Dantian*, and the *Microcosmic Orbit*, all of which support connection to a more direct relationship with your practice over time.

Five Element theory, cycles and energetic expression

Working with the Five Element system as a way of understanding how Qi moves, transforms and expresses through the body over time.
This includes practices such as *Five Harmonies Qigong*, along with modules for each of the Five Elements, supporting your ability to recognise patterns within your system and work with them directly in practice.

Classical forms and traditional sequences

Working with classical forms and sequences to refine your practice, develop your form and build your energy skill.
Some of the modules in this area of practice are *Eight Sections of Brocade* and *Five Animal Frolics*, alongside study of Daoist foundations, supporting greater alignment between movement, breath and awareness over time.

Shen Gong and cultivation of the heart-mind

Integrating movement, breath, stillness and self-inquiry to deepen awareness and understanding of the self.
This includes practices such as *Qigong for Inner Revolution* and *Celestial Shen Gong*, along with study of the internal landscape through modules such as *Eight Extraordinary Vessels & the Psyche* and *The Five Spirits, Poisons, Thieves & Beauties*, supporting emotional regulation, presence and a more direct relationship with your internal experience.

What this requires

Your development is shaped through consistent practice and ongoing mentorship. Practice is what builds real skill, understanding and embodied knowledge.

Mentorship does not replace this. It refines it.

This asks for a willingness to stay with your practice, to reflect on what you’re doing and to take responsibility for how it develops.

The depth of your training is shaped by how consistently you practise and how you engage with what is arising.

Guidance, feedback and structure are provided throughout, but they can’t do the work for you. What develops comes through your own practice.

Training Structure & Certification

Nine Month Mentorship

The training unfolds over nine months, allowing your practice to develop with consistency and depth. Mentorship sessions are held monthly, either one-to-one or within a small group, alongside your self-directed practice.

GUIDED TRAINING

Your training is guided through ongoing mentorship, with direction shaped by your practice and what you’re ready to develop. This isn’t a fixed progression, but a structure that adapts as your capacity deepens over time.

Certification

For those intending to teach, this pathway leads toward Qigong Teacher Training certification. Certification reflects the depth and consistency of your practice, and your ability to guide what you’ve developed.