Life Force Energy Cultivation Retreat

Crestone, Colorado

September 12 - 19, 2024

John P. Milton offers a unique transformative retreat, blending Taoist Internal Alchemy, T'ai Chi for Liberation, Tibetan practices for chakras and meridians, and Geomantic energy work utilizing stone meditation seats and Earth energy flows.  This holistic experience will enhance spiritual awareness, inner peace, and build Life Force Vitality.... supported by one of North America's most powerful and ancient sacred places, Crestone and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado.   Register here or scroll down for more details.

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 T'ai Chi  

Learn or refine T'ai Chi and Qigong to activate self healing and release blockages. Including a rare form of Wuji T'ai Chi called T'ai Chi for Liberation that works with the 8 Extraordinary Qi Vessels.  

Tibetan Energy Channels

Open and balance your 5 chakras.  Purify and unblock your 3 primary channels.  Learn how indigenous stone meditation seats work similarly with your energy channels.  

Stone Meditation Seats

Learn geomancy of Earth energy flows and how to open your energy channels with support from stone meditation seats.

Cultivate and harmonize your energy through a synthesis of ancient and diverse practices 

Teachings: 

Taoist Internal Alchemy  
  • Refine and circulate energy (Qi) through meditations, sound healing, and breath work.
  • Cultivating the body's energy centers, meridians, and extraordinary vessels.
  • T'ai Chi for Liberation
Tibetan Practices for Chakras and Meridians 
  • Open and balance the 5 pranas.
  • Purify and unblock central, left, and right energy channels.
  • Energy work through mantra, sound, and visualization.  
  • Tsa Lung Practices
  • Engaging the Four Immeasurables of Unconditional Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity.
Shamanic Practices from Indigenous Cultures
  •  Shamanic connection with Nature
  • The Power of Intent and the 11-Directions Ceremony.
  • Journeying Techniques
  • Recapitulation Practice
  • Intro to flower essences
Geomancy and Stone Meditation Seats
  • How stone meditation seats amplify and stabilize qualities of insight and qi.
  • Meditating with stone meditation seats for relaxation, presencing, and opening Source connection.

Our Sacred Site  

Towering above our retreat camp are five 14,000-foot summits that watch over you with majestic grace. Lovely groves of large ponderosas, aspen and cottonwood line the mountain streams, with neighboring forests of juniper and pinyon pine. You will share the land with mule deer, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, pronghorn antelope and beautiful black fox squirrels. Bird life abounds and Eagles circle above. A large, beautiful stream flows for more than a mile across our private, protected land. The stream flows crystal clear and provides superb, revitalizing drinking water for all of us.

Native peoples trace back their vision quests and sacred ceremonies here for over 15,000 years.  In the late 1970's, WoN founder John P. Milton moved to Crestone and was the initial discoverer of an estimated 2,000 ancient stone meditation seats scattered among the Sacred Land Sanctuary.  These special sites continue to be used for vision questing, ceremony and prayer.  Those who journey here feel the powerful joy and opening of Spirit that these cherished surroundings offer. 

When you do a program at the Way of Nature Sacred Land Sanctuary, you join those who have entered the Sacred Way on this land over many thousands of years... you become part of that great lineage of the Land!

Schedule: 

Exact daily schedule subject to change based on weather.

September 12th - 19th : daily teachings between 9am - 6pm, with a 2-hour lunch break

Location: 

Our 300-acre base camp, the Sacred Land Sanctuary, is located just outside of the town of Crestone, and is centered in one of North America's most sacred areas. This land has been used for vision quests, meditation, prayer and spiritual ceremony for millennia.

The base camp offers shaded camping, clear water from the nearby stream, and a simple cooking facility.

Participants are welcome to camp at the Sacred Land Sanctuary base camp during the program. There are also AirBnB options available in Crestone.

Program Registration 

Cost: $1800 USD program fee

Teacher:  John P. Milton

Assistant:  Brad Kahland

The Sacred Land is calling

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