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7-13 July 2025
Conference Centre DE POORT – Groesbeek – Netherlands
Welcome to our Summer Seminar with Carsten Dohnke
Join us to experience a profound connection to life, your energy, and inner resources. For beginners with a deep passion for bodywork and meditation, as well as advanced Tao practitioners.
You can join a 3-day, 4-day or 7-day retreat.
7-8 July: Water Qigong & Meditation
Water Qigong makes you as supple as a cat, offering a rejuvenating, refreshing, and revitalizing effect. The gentle movements massage your abdominal area, internal organs, spine, and individual joint spaces, creating a sense of release and well-being. During practice, you dive deeper into inner stillness and an effortless sense of flow.
What makes Water Qigong truly special is its power to free you from old physical patterns and entrenched structures—not only in your body but also in your personality. This liberation fosters greater flexibility, sensitivity, and openness to new experiences in everyday life.
It gently transforms your rigid habits into flowing vitality, enabling you to navigate life with ease and grace.
The taoist meditations in this class go hand in hand with the practice of Water Qigong . They recharge you with fresh vitality, open your heart, strengthen your immune system and guide you to experience a profound connection with yourself.
Moreover Water Qigong serves as an 
ideal preparation for the practices of Inner Alchemy that follow in the days ahead, opening the doors to even deeper levels of transformation and self-discovery.
(all movements will also be repeated Fusion & Kan & Li)
9 July: The essence of Fusion: Compassion Meditation
This third day will focus on compassion meditation plus deepening the movements of the first 2 days. In addition to silent heart meditation, you will experience the taoist meditation of the cycle of creation, in which your positive organ-energies and virtues merge into a state of compassion.This day is an optimal preparation for the following practices of the inner alchemy.
A deep state of being, peace and the feeling of being nourished emerges. You strengthen and purify your inner organs and can free yourself from old emotional problems.
The practice of Fusion is complemented by Water Qigong. Combined with meditations of self-acceptance and embracing the internal organs, this allows you to „truly come home in yourself and your body“.
Discovering the art of Inner Alchemy is simpler than it appears. It’s like rediscovering that sense of inner harmony we once knew so well in our carefree childhood days.
Whether you’re new to the practice or already seasoned, Course 1 and Course 2 are open to all – while a certain degree of experience with body movement, meditation, and self-reflection is recommended.
What truly matters is your curiosity and eagerness to delve into this transformative experience.
10-13 July Higher Inner Alchemy – Kan and Li
In “Kan and Li” the love of our heart merges with the energy of the kidneys and libido – “fire and water unite”, as the Taoists say. This creates a refined Qi, which like an “inner vapour” nourishes and rejuvenates each of our cells from within and carries the practitioner into higher states of consciousness. Deep inner contemplation, the dissolution of the physical body, the slowing down of the aging process and inner healing are the central themes. “Kan and Li” is also called the “marriage of soul and spirit”. The depth of this course has a life-changing effect on many participants.
Conditions of participation in Course 3 – Kan and Li: 2 years or more experience in Taoist practices, inner Qigong, other meditation or longer silent retreats.
In the Inner Alchemy of Tao, the practice of „Kan & Li“ becomes the basis for the development of higher forms of consciousness. It is the inner marriage of soul and spirit, the union of heaven and earth, and it touches our innermost longings for wholeness and harmony.
Mind power moves into a dance, and Qi transformed into a sparkling vapour flows along special meridians – a centrepiece of Taoist meditation that enables profound processes of inner transformation.
Carstens partner Dewi De Waele will assist during the summer week – for movements, question, short coachings and much more ..
There are several possibilities to participate in the retreat.
The 7 day-retreat (without accomodation):
€ 710
3-day or 4 day course:
Once we receive your registration, we’ll send over your invoice. Just make sure to settle the payment within the specified time frame to secure your spot.
(Regarding early bird price: Please remember, if you miss the payment window, any early booking discounts will unfortunately expire.)
Dates and times
We start on July 7th at 10:00 am and finish on July 13th at 5:00 pm. Specific timings for breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be arranged collectively.
We recommend to arrive 1 day earlier for a relaxed and mindful start of the retreat.
Please note that teaching sessions will run from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm and from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm, totaling approximately 6 hours of classes daily. However, these timings may be subject to adjustments once meal schedules are finalized.
Language Teachings are in English
ACCOMMODATION
Conferentieoord De Poort Groesbeek
Conferentieoord De Poort
Disseltsebaan 34, 6561 KC Groesbeek
The Netherlands
https://www.depoort.org/
To ensure your place in the course, secure your spot early, as this guarantees your reservation.
We offer various options to make your stay as comfortable as possible:
Single or shared rooms
With private or shared bathrooms
Camping (bring your own tent, caravan, or camper)
Staying outside De Poort (excluding breakfast but includes lunch, dinner, coffee, and tea – flat rate, see price list).
Regular accommodation includes overnight stay, breakfast, lunch, dinner, as well as coffee and tea.
Accommodation, special meals, and any additional requests can be booked separately and directly on the De Poort website
Accomodation price:
7 days room / camping – between 499 and 860.-
3 days – between 200 and 311.-
Any additional questions regarding accommodotion, please contact the friendly staff of De Poort (Moniek): Tel: +31 24 297 12 04
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