Yuan Qigong Weekend Retreats
REN XUE Africa hosts Sylvie Jutras for two weekend Retreats
The Cradle of Mankind, Johannesburg
7-9 March 2025
Stellenbosch, Cape Town
14-16 March 2025
Accommodation is limited so please book before 29th November 2024 to avoid disappointment. Read On for More Detail.
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
Embrace the Guidance of your True Human Heart
Human hearts are profound for more reasons than that they are the first organ to develop after conception, thereafter beating ceaselessly our whole life – while also adjusting with sensitivity to every physical, emotional, and mental state to support our best responses to life.
In the evolution of ‘life’, according to REN XUE teachings, there are three stages of development of life in the Universe: Hun, Ling, and Shen.
Very briefly, Hun is what we witness in lower forms of animals which have smaller brains and a very basic capacity to initiate, create, and express special abilities, reliant only on their ‘brain’.
Ling is a more advanced form of life expressed in these same three areas of life. In addition to advanced abilities to initiate, create, and express special abilities at this Ling stage, the heart organ develops a ‘consciousness’ that is highly integrated with the brain’s consciousness. This ‘heart consciousness’ is called ‘Xin nature’.
Under the influences of much time, space, and environment, Ling then qualitatively changed and gave rise to Shen, which marked the beginning of the human species in the Universe. During this (ongoing) developmental process, ‘Xin nature’ evolved to become ‘Human Nature’ – a profound contributor to not only humans’ abilities to initiate, create, and express special abilities but to every human’s influence on life in the Universe.
Most of us have only a peripheral recognition of our innate ‘heart consciousness’ and how to cultivate and manifest it. Additionally, we mostly have a basic (maybe even at times, somewhat cynical) view of Human Nature.
Sylvie will be discussing these areas of human life, and what life is like when we embrace the guidance of our True Human Heart to align Human Nature with the Laws of Life.
Rest assured, her style of teaching is simple, interactive, and pragmatic and will meet all levels of understanding and experience.
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 aspects 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.
