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A Comprehensive Training in Taoist Sexual Practices
This three-day weekend offers a step-by-step guide to Taoist sexual practices, perfect for beginners and experienced practitioners alike.
Learn to transform and harmonize sexual energy for greater health, vitality, and spiritual awakening. We’ll also share powerful tools to reduce conflict, deepen intimacy, and cultivate appreciation in relationships.
This immersive experience blends instruction, personalized guidance, and group practices.
We emphasize cultivating sexual energy rather than dissipating it. For men, this includes separating orgasm from ejaculation, known as non-ejaculatory sex.
Taoism teaches the balance of yin (feminine) and yang (masculine) energies, enhancing both personal harmony and relationships. Sex is viewed as a source of health, vitality, and spiritual awakening rather than a moral issue or taboo. Sexual energy has always been our most creative and strongest power, and sex is not only a way to experience pleasure but also a form of healing, vitality and energizing.
The Taoist practice of Dual Cultivation harmonizes Fire (masculine) and Water (feminine), generating Healing Love—a powerful force for connection, rejuvenation, and deep transformation.
10am to 6 pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 9 - 11, 2025.
Fully “clothes on” workshop with no nudity.
There are no practices involving sexual arousal in the group sessions.
Open to people of all ages, whether single or in a relationship.
The training will take place in downtown Nevada City. You will be notified of the location after you register.
Meals and Accommodation are not included in the tuition price.
Price: $350 per person. We do not offer trades, discounts, sliding scale or any payment plans.
Participants will also have recordings and resources to continue their journey at home.
Full Schedule and Curriculum
Day One: Foundational Practices
We begin with foundational practices designed to enhance your chi, or life force, and open your energy channels. We start our journey by learning the components of a comprehensive daily practice for energy cultivation and well-being, adaptable to your circumstances. We will also learn techniques for grounding as a preparation for the powerful practices to come later, which work with aroused energy. These foundational practices will bring you back to your body’s wisdom and awaken your chi/life-force energy.
Specifically we learn:
Inner Smile: Use the power of sending energy to the five major organs to activate greater health, emotional balance, and a relaxation response in the parasympathetic nervous system.
Six Healing Sounds: Dissipate destructive stagnant emotional energy and rebalance the positive emotion for each organ. This practice has a sound for each of the organs, a healing color and a unique position for each sound — it will help you restore good health and connect to the primordial universal energies.
Basic Chi Kung Warm ups: to open the joints, particularly in the spine, and prepare the nervous system for heightened states of energy.
Stem Cell Chi Kung: How to use the Bamboo hitter to stimulate the body towards growth and regeneration.
Introduction to basic Iron Shirt Chi Kung: We will learn simple practices for grounding, as a preparation for the body to receive greater flows of energy through the channels.
Introduction to the Microcosmic Orbit. We will learn to locate the main points in the governing channel up the spine, and the functional channel down the front of the body.
Day Two: Solo Practices for men and for women
On the second day you will learn energetic practices to cultivate and move energy on your own. Some were originally created for men and women, some are specifically for men and some specifically for women.
Practices for Everyone, taught to the whole group:
Circulating Energy in the Microcosmic Orbit: This is a preliminary practice to develop inner strength and harmony, which are required for a fulfilling relationship with another person. It trains you to sense, direct and cultivate more energy.
Deepening Iron Shirt Practice: This is one of the most important practices to master on the physical plane. It gives grounding and rooting, connecting you to the Earth energy. It allows you to store energy for use in higher level spiritual practices.
Practices for Men:
Cultivating Male Sexual Energy focuses on developing the capacity to hold greater levels of energy and pleasure without ejaculation. The idea is to separate orgasm from ejaculation to conserve and circulate sexual energy within the body. In this way, semen is retained, and sexual energy is harnessed, transmuted, and circulated throughout the body’s energy channels. Men learn how to control ejaculation and to transform the sexual energy into Chi, and then transfer it up to nourish their organs and transform it into Shen, the spiritual force.
The Big Draw: is a basic technique to cultivate states of sexual arousal and then to bring that energy up the spine to the crown of the head, and then down the front of the bodyTesticle Breathing and testicle massage practices are essential to solo male cultivation. By consciously engaging with the testicles, men individuals can promote vitality, well-being, and spiritual growth.
Penis massage techniques: are ways to strengthen erections and to release any blocks in the tissues in the penis, which may lead to greater length and girth.
PC muscle strengthening: techniques use breath and muscular control to activate the pelvic floor. Some men may want to learn testicular weight lifting.
The External lock: a way to stop the spasms in the prostate which preceed ejaculatio
The Inner Lock: a way to stop spasms in the prostate through developing control of the PC muscle.
Practices For Women:
Cultivating Female Sexual Energy Taoist sexuality imparts several primary practices to empower and cultivate sexual energy in women.
Breast massage transforms sexual energy into QI, activates the gland system, and increases the energy flow to the breasts, thereby helping to break down congestion to support breast health in the future.
Nine Flowers: designed to activate and harmonize the body’s endocrine system, focusing on what Taoists refer to as “Gland Qi Arousal.” This practice emphasizes stimulating the glands to enhance overall health and vitality.
The Orgasmic Upward Draw, can be practiced individually or with a partner. Proficiency in this practice increases a woman’s sexual potential by warming up her energy ahead of time. This practice can lead to experiencing a total body orgasm that surpasses the conventional vaginal orgasm, all while preserving life-force energy.
Jade egg practice serves to fortify the urogenital, pelvic diaphragms and vagina, as well as the glands, tendons, and nervous system.
Day Three: Dual Practices for Sexual Ecstasy
In this third and last day you will discover the advanced form of Taoist practices. You will learn the next step after Solo cultivation – Dual cultivation: how to cultivate and work with aroused (hot) sexual energy. We teach the circulation of energy with your partner to create the deepest possible connection which leads to the highest levels of sexual unity.
We will learn Taoist foreplay techniques utilizing shiatsu points to stimulate arousal. We will also learn ways for a woman to relax and receive pleasure and heightened arousal from her partner, and ways for a man to receive in the same way. We will also learn dual cultivation with aroused energy: leading to sharing microcosmic orbits, yin / yang interchange, and shared valley multi-orgasms.
These dual practices, sometimes referred to as “sexual magic” take sexual arousal way beyond the brief climax of pleasure in the genitals, and to have significant long term physical and health benefits. They can be used for sexual healing, deeper emotional intimacy, and as portals to expansive states of spiritual awakening. Practitioners can attain higher levels of consciousness and connect with the Tao, the ultimate source of all existence, by refining and directing sexual energy.
Advanced techniques include:
Multi-orgasmic practices - teaching men to receive heightened pleasure without ejaculation
Discover how to circulate your microcosmic orbit into your lover’s orbit, creating deep energetic connections through the circulation of shared yin / and yang energy.
Cultivate the shared Valley Orgasm – a true fusion of two beloved beings, shared in an intensified and balanced way.
Learn the Eight benefits: how to utilize sexual arousal for physical health and healing.
Learn the nine positions of ancient Taoist traditions, to allow sexual energy to spread for both physical healing and spiritual awakening.
Sexual Reflexology will provide opportunities for connection and pathways for enhanced health and well-being.
You will learn the three techniques from ancient China for fellatio
And the specific most effective ways to give cunnilingus
During the weekend we will also learn these relational practices to strengthen the health of your relationship container:
Sharing Appreciation and Gratitude: Cultivate deeper intimacy by actively expressing appreciation and gratitude. This practice helps open the heart, build trust, and create a positive emotional foundation in relationships.
Clearing Withholds:Learn a structured way to express unspoken thoughts, emotions, and concerns in a safe and non-reactive manner. This practice prevents resentment, deepens intimacy, and encourages more authentic relating.
Creating Shared Vision:Develop a unified direction in your relationship by aligning values, desires, and intentions.
Creating and Navigating shared agreements: We will learn how to establish clear, conscious agreements that support mutual respect, integrity, and harmony in your relationship. Learn how to revisit and refine agreements as needs and dynamics evolve.
Solo nervous system regulation and co-regulation
Dual Healing Sounds meditation practice
Dual Inner Smile Practice
About the Facilitators
Arjuna Ardagh
Arjuna has been practicing Chi Kung with Mantak Chia since 1988. He has also trained as a teacher with Lee Holden and Master Chunyi Lin. Arjuna started training facilitators and coaches since the late 1980s, and he is the founder of Awakening Coaching. He has trained more than 2000 coaches in 18 countries. Arjuna is certified by Mantak Chia in the Healing Love Practices (the Taoist Sexual Practices) and has also done extensive training with Gay and Kathlyn Henricks in relationship dynamics.
Katherine Dessert
Katherine Dessert is passionate about helping people awaken their innate vitality through body-based healing. As a Chi Nei Tsang practitioner and Kambo facilitator, she specializes in releasing emotional blockages, restoring energetic flow, and deepening personal and relational intimacy. She believes that sexual energy is a source of vitality, healing, creativity, and transformation. Katherine’s work blends ancient Taoist wisdom with modern somatic practices.
Together
Their combined approach integrates spiritual wisdom with practical tools, creating a safe and grounded environment for participants to explore these practices.