2026 Qi Retreat: The Great Pause
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The Great Pause: A New Way of Learning
The Florida prototype centers around The Great Pause—a radical rejection of industrial-age productivity in favor of alignment with the cosmic pulse. In an era of constant input and endless output, LIU offers something rare: permission to stop.
Students learn to navigate three core dimensions of awakening:
· Self-Inner Healing: Using bio-feedback to decode and shift physical and emotional blockages. The body reveals what the mind has forgotten.
· Wisdom-Intelligence (Ω): Moving beyond data retention into the unveiling of innate potential. Not learning, but remembering.
· Sovereign Living: Operating without the need for external validation or institutional permission. Becoming the authority of one’s own life.
The first 24 hours of a student’s journey are spent in silence—no phones, no schedules, no instructions. Only the space to let the old operating system unwind.
A Worldwide Spore
The Florida prototype serves as the “Genesis Block” of a global network to be launched in mid June. LIU is currently training its first cohort of 500 Consciousness and Healing Guides—the “Midwives” of this new paradigm—who will facilitate the transition for seekers worldwide.
Through the Spore Protocol, LIU’s technology and philosophy are designed to be decentralized from the ground up. Any community, anywhere, will eventually be able to download the “Academy of Light” framework and adapt it to their own cultural context. By decentralizing wisdom, LIU ensures that the Academy cannot be centralized, co-opted, or shut down.
2026 Qi Retreat
Event Date
- March 19-24, 2026
Location
- Panama City Beach
Our Mission
Shaolin Chan Foundation is a non profit 501c3 organization. Our goal is to promote and carry out the Chan (Zen) teachings and Chan way of living. This includes Chan philosophy, Chan meditation, Tai Gong for healing, Chan nutrition, fine arts, music, the appreciation.
We hold a number of events through the year, including: Chinese New Year festivities; World Tai Chi Day lectures, demonstrations and classes; Qi Retreats, which focus on Qi Gong and Nutrition; our Chan meditation series; and our World Kung Fu Championships series as well as conference and assistance to the needy in education and basic living in China and other parts of the world. We maintain relationships with a number of institutions in China and enjoy both student exchange Intern programs and visiting lecturers.
About Shifu Deru
Liu Xiangyang, who goes by his Shaolin disciple name DeRu, is a senior student of Shaolin Chan-Wu-Yi (Zen, martial arts and medicine) and a mentor to hundreds of thousands of Shaolin and Tai Chi students as well as natural health advocators. He is one of the two most well-known disciples of Su Xi, who was a great spiritual leader and 30th generation grand master, chief monk, and former deputy abbot monk of the famous Shaolin Temple.
He is one of the earliest Shaolin pioneers who entered the US, spreading the Chan, natural healing, Shaolin Kung Fu and Tai Chi Kung Fu in the United States and around globe.
禪 Chan (Zen)
We have a little bit of a branding problem: sometimes we refer to it as Zen, sometimes Chan, and sometimes Chan (Zen). Here’s the deal. Zen and Chan are the same thing. The word Zen is an Americanized version of the Japanese word 禅, which itself is derived from the Chinese word 禪, which is pronounced “Chan.” In Pinyin (which is the official romanization system of Chinese) it’s “Chán.” Going all the way back to Sanskrit, the word originated as dhyāna or ध्यान. All these words translate literally into something like “meditative state,” which is appropriate because meditation is the central practice at the heart of Zen… I mean Chan… I mean Chan (Zen)… You get the point.
Zen may simply be interpreted as innermost consciousness, the way to reach infinite Wisdom, or the way to cultivate wisdom. It also includes the realm of infinite intelligence in the expanded high plainfield of consciousness that can only be reached after deep cultivation coupled with innate discovery. This wisdom is the ultimate consciousness of the universe. It is the wisdom of life, the life intelligence.