Advanced Traditional Practice
The Advanced Traditional Practice (ATP) Program for personal healing and spiritual development is open to all sincere students who have laid a solid foundation for further development and who spiritually align themselves with the tradition of the Integral Way. The ATP was started by Grandmaster Hua-Ching Ni (OmNi) at the 1995 USIW Annual Retreat, and is continued by Dr. Mao Shing Ni (Dr. Mao). It is a long-term program involving annual instruction in the esoteric, closely guarded practices of the tradition of the Integral Way. A new level of instruction is added each year, and the complete program will eventually encompass thirty-six levels or three twelve-year cycles. The ATP initially focuses on the development of skills to aid participants with their own cultivation and good health. Later levels provide methods of realizing other aspects of a well-rounded spiritual life including the ability to be a capable and useful person. A hallmark of the ATP program is its emphasis on continuing self-development through personal practice, and accelerating progress through the ongoing giving and receiving of ATP treatments with other ATP participants.
The book The Universal Path of Natural Life provides an additional description of ATP under the heading, “Self-Reliance Health Program”. The first twelve levels of ATP and their corresponding spiritual healing properties are:
1. 26 Healing Movements to open all the channels and promote spiritual clarity & communication.
2. Summoning & Establishing Protective Energy to protect and direct the healing energy.
3. Spinning the Wheel of the North Star to strengthen the life energy and the will to live.
4. Pre-Heaven Bagua Healing to promotes the return to our original oneness and cleanse prior karma.
5.a. Issuing Protective Energy for self-protection and to disable harmful energy.
5.b. Five Elements Practice for conquering trouble and to harmonize and steer the spiritual energy.
5.c. Five-In-One Invocation to awaken and harmonize spiritual energy.
6. Infinity Practice to untie spiritual “knots” and break the repetitive cycles of self-defeating behavior.
7. Aligning with the 28 Constellations to orient the spiritual direction and balance any emotional tendencies.
8. Union with the Big Dipper to promote clarity and spiritual purpose.
9. Hun & Po Meditation to purify and refine the spiritual energy.
10. Untying the Spirit to assist the spirit to transcend at the completion of life.
11. Soul Purification to purify and align the spiritual energy.
12. Ultra-vision to develop internal spiritual “vision”.
Traditionally, students were required to demonstrate their worthiness for learning advanced practices through long preparatory years of dedicated service and study with their master-teacher. This approach has become less practical in the modern age. Instead, it is sufficient that an applicant should be an Integral Way (IW) Mentor of good standing, with at least three years experience as a student of the IW tradition (not all of which needs to be as a mentor), and an active participant in the Self-Challenge Program. Mentorship is assumed to be an affirmation of ongoing study of the IW, participation within the IW community, alignment with the spiritual traditions of this heritage, and commitment to the highest standard of personal conduct. The Self-Challenge program is encouraged as a tool for continued societal and self-improvement. Participants also track their development through the ATP program by giving and receiving ATP treatments with other participants, and submitting a written progress report each year. This more modern approach is intended to ensure an appropriate foundation and level of commitment, without imposing undue hardship on anyone.
ATP instruction is generally offered in conjunction with the annual New Year Celebration at Yo San University or at other times, as arranged.
For more information, please email us at atp.cot@gmail.com
The book The Universal Path of Natural Life provides an additional description of ATP under the heading, “Self-Reliance Health Program”. The first twelve levels of ATP and their corresponding spiritual healing properties are:
1. 26 Healing Movements to open all the channels and promote spiritual clarity & communication.
2. Summoning & Establishing Protective Energy to protect and direct the healing energy.
3. Spinning the Wheel of the North Star to strengthen the life energy and the will to live.
4. Pre-Heaven Bagua Healing to promotes the return to our original oneness and cleanse prior karma.
5.a. Issuing Protective Energy for self-protection and to disable harmful energy.
5.b. Five Elements Practice for conquering trouble and to harmonize and steer the spiritual energy.
5.c. Five-In-One Invocation to awaken and harmonize spiritual energy.
6. Infinity Practice to untie spiritual “knots” and break the repetitive cycles of self-defeating behavior.
7. Aligning with the 28 Constellations to orient the spiritual direction and balance any emotional tendencies.
8. Union with the Big Dipper to promote clarity and spiritual purpose.
9. Hun & Po Meditation to purify and refine the spiritual energy.
10. Untying the Spirit to assist the spirit to transcend at the completion of life.
11. Soul Purification to purify and align the spiritual energy.
12. Ultra-vision to develop internal spiritual “vision”.
Traditionally, students were required to demonstrate their worthiness for learning advanced practices through long preparatory years of dedicated service and study with their master-teacher. This approach has become less practical in the modern age. Instead, it is sufficient that an applicant should be an Integral Way (IW) Mentor of good standing, with at least three years experience as a student of the IW tradition (not all of which needs to be as a mentor), and an active participant in the Self-Challenge Program. Mentorship is assumed to be an affirmation of ongoing study of the IW, participation within the IW community, alignment with the spiritual traditions of this heritage, and commitment to the highest standard of personal conduct. The Self-Challenge program is encouraged as a tool for continued societal and self-improvement. Participants also track their development through the ATP program by giving and receiving ATP treatments with other participants, and submitting a written progress report each year. This more modern approach is intended to ensure an appropriate foundation and level of commitment, without imposing undue hardship on anyone.
ATP instruction is generally offered in conjunction with the annual New Year Celebration at Yo San University or at other times, as arranged.
For more information, please email us at atp.cot@gmail.com