Introducing Sylvie
Sylvie Jutras, a REN XUE teacher of many years and currently living in France, was validated by Yuan Tze a few years ago as having met the requirements for REN XUE’s Fourth Stage of Realisation and Wisdom.
This stage of inner cultivation involves ‘waking up from sleeping, regaining clarity, and seeing one’s ‘True Nature’ fully. The ‘True Nature’ is then liberated from its conditioned, patterned ‘persona’ and as the True Self, can fully manifest its clarity and wisdom. This transformation stage is commonly labelled ‘enlightenment’. In REN XUE this is not seen as an endpoint but the true beginning of life cultivation. Sylvie is well on this path and has much wisdom to share.
We are most fortunate to have Sylvie come to South Africa in March 2025, to lead two Yuan Qigong retreats – one in Johannesburg, and one in Cape Town. Both South African and international students will welcome her wonderfully direct and clear teaching style over two days of Yuan Qigong immersion in these beautiful locations outside the main cities.
Please register for the weekend retreat of your choice.
Farmhouse 58
Human hearts are profound – for many reasons!
The heart is the first organ to develop after conception and from then on, it beats ceaselessly and quietly in the background, rarely being anything except trustworthy until it beats its last! It isn’t just a passive pump either. This relatively small organ, the size of your fist, sitting inside your chest, sensitively and immediately adjusts to your physical, emotional, and mental states in every moment, supporting the best responses to life, without you giving it a second thought!
A lesser known fact is that it has its own, independent form of consciousness (the ability to receive, process, and transmit information, among other abilities). This heart consciousness can be thought of as our ‘spiritual heart’. Our spiritual heart continually influences ‘human nature’, either aligning it with the Laws of Nature and the Universe or not. When our ‘human nature’ aligns better with these Laws, thoughts, words, and actions arise from those Laws and not from our patterned human understanding of life; and when we live in this way, there is effortless harmony within, with others, and with other life across the Universe.
Most of us have only a peripheral recognition of this ‘heart consciousness’ and how to cultivate and manifest it. Sylvie will offer insights into this, guiding us to understand better how to create positive, lasting change in our lives. This will include specific Yuan Qigong practices that deepen our capacity to move forward on a clear, direct path, improving health, an overall sense of well-being and peace, and how to improve our Wisdom guidance system.
Her style of teaching is simple, interactive, and pragmatic and will meet all levels of understanding and experience. You will have the joy of morning and evening Yuan Qigong practices in the beautiful nature spaces of FARMHOUSE58, a nourishing, harmonious REN XUE Qifield, and our trained teaching team to assist if needed.
Ongoing learning and practice opportunities to continue uplifting life after the retreat, are available through a well-established, local and international network of REN XUE Africa teachers.
To find out more, contact Louise at louise@renxueafrica.org
Mont Fleur
A Harmonious Life Starts from Within
It isn’t always clear to us that everything we perceive outside as ‘objective’ reality is significantly (one could even say, completely) coloured by conditioned neurological processes and reference information from all kinds of life experiences, unconsciously stored within.
Humans have natural, complex reinforcement cycles built into the body’s sensory and perceptual mechanisms at the levels of thought, meaning, and identification, which are then quite literally hardwired into the neurological systems. These cycles play out endlessly as our ‘personality’ or ‘who we are’, looping again and again, seemingly rendering us incapable of changing much of importance in our lives. We find ourselves reacting to the tiniest ‘movement’ of life arising in each moment with this hardwired ‘script’ to which we are to varying degrees, attached or not.
There is only one way to change this immensely powerful gravitational force-field of conditioned processes and reference information, and that is to become conscious of both and have effective tools and information to make true changes within.
Sylvie will share wisdom and tools related to this significant aspect of human life that we all need to understand better, to bring greater harmony to both our inner and outer experience of life.
Event Details
Johannesburg weekend retreat – Farmhouse 58
Venue: FARMHOUSE58 in the Cradle of Mankind, Kromdraai with its farm-to-table food and simple farm-style accommodation.
When: 2 pm Friday, 7th March – late morning, Sunday, 9th March 2025.
What to expect: Daily Qigong practices (Yuan Gong methods), both moving and seated, together with teaching and Q&A with Sylvie.
Who is this for: We welcome all (both local and international) newcomers and practicing students and teachers of REN XUE and Yuan Qigong.
Cape Town weekend retreat – Mont Fleur
Venue: Mont Fleur, at the far end of a lush valley in the Stellenbosch Winelands, with their home-grown veggies and rolling views of mountains and fynbos.
When: 2 pm Friday, 14th March – late morning, Sunday, 16th March 2025.
What to expect: Daily Qigong practices (Yuan Gong methods), both moving and seated, together with teaching and Q&A with Sylvie.
Who is this for: We welcome all (both local and international) newcomers and practicing students and teachers of REN XUE and Yuan Qigong.