Coming Home to Discover...

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Featured Events & Retreats

The Southwest Sanctuary (AKA The Chi Center) is the best place for me to teach in my 40 years of teaching all over the world. My community was welcomed and felt at home by the land and staff.

Magical Sundays

Discover magic of life through wisdom, community and nature

Magical Sunday has been the most profound church experience for me: nature becomes the sanctuary, life is celebrated, and this heartfelt, open-minded community shares it all.

Personal Vacation & Retreat

Return, Rest, Renew and Rediscover

This place has all the beauty and magic of the southwest for the inner discovery.

Upon my first visit to The Sanctuary(TCC), I felt the ancient spiritual power of the land and a sense of coming home to Mother Nature right away. It was incredibly fulfilling to share this place as a home with my Gaia Mandala Global Healing Community. Our retreat was sensitively served and well supported in every way by Master Mingtong Gu and the wonderful staff. We will be back!

Private Group & Event Rental

Our Vision

To be a sanctuary where diverse communities and traditions converge in the pursuit of healing and growth. Many Paths, One Truth and One Community.

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