Master Universal Healing Tao, Qigong & Tai Chi
Study with Senior instructor Gillian Reid. Offering courses, teacher certification, and transformative retreats in Europe and Thailand.
ABOUT GILLIAN
For over three decades, Gillian Reid has walked the path of Universal Healing Tao, Qigong, and Tai Chi—not just as practices, but as a way of life. As a senior instructor certified by Grand Master Mantak Chia, Gillian teaches throughout Europe and Thailand, helping students unlock their inner potential through ancient Taoist wisdom. She offers courses, teacher certification programs in the Unversal Healing Tao System and the Biospirals Method Gigong, and leads retreats at the renowned Tao Garden Health Spa & Resort in Thailand, in her hometown Venice, Italy and locations across Europe. Her teaching is rooted in personal experience: the profound transformation she experienced through these practices fuels her passion for sharing them with others. She is also a Chi Nei Tsang and Tok Sen massage practitioner, helping clients release stored trauma and stagnant energy through traditional Taoist and Thai bodywork.
Learn more about Gillian’s story.
Ways to Study & Practice
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UHT Courses & Teacher Certification
Deepen your practice with comprehensive courses in the Universal Healing Tao (UHT) Qigong, Tai Chi, and Taoist practices. These courses guide you toward physical vitality, emotional balance, and spiritual growth. Become a certified Universal Healing Tao instructor. Comprehensive training programs designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to guide others on their healing journey. Learn more.
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Biospirals Training and Teacher Certification
Become a certified Biospirals practitioner and learn to guide others through this transformative movement practice. Biospirals uses natural spiraling patterns to release tension, realign fascia, and restore the body's innate intelligence. This comprehensive training teaches you the principles, sequences, and coaching skills to facilitate healing through movement. Perfect for movement teachers, bodyworkers, and anyone passionate about somatic transformation. Learn more.
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Private 1-on-1 Coaching
A coaching program designed for your unique journey. 3 or 6 month coaching is available for those seeking personalized guidance and a deeper dive into the transformational wisdom of embodied living based on Taoist principles.Through 1-on-1 sessions, we'll explore your specific needs—whether you're navigating hormonal transitions, deepening your energy cultivation practice, reclaiming your sexual vitality, or seeking to live more aligned with your true nature. Inquire here.
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Retreats & Workshops
Immerse yourself in intensive training experiences. From weekend workshops to extended retreats in Europe and Thailand, these gatherings offer deep practice and connection with a supportive community. Step away from daily life and into transformational space where you can fully dedicate yourself to cultivation. Whether it's a 3-day Qigong intensive, an extended Female Alchemy immersion in Venice, Italy—these experiences offer the depth that daily practice alone cannot provide. Practice in community and return home transformed. Visit schedule.
Become a Universal Healing Tao Instructor
Comprehensive training and certification in UHT Inner Alchemy Qigong, Tai Chi, and Taoist practices licenced by Master Mantak Chia
Featured Courses
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Featured Courses
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Female Sexual Alchemy
20 hours of pre-recorded classes in English / Italian
Led by senior instructor Gillian Reid, this bilingual (Italian and English) self-paced course includes 20 hours of pre-recorded classes, a workbook, lifetime access, and two 20-minute private connection calls. You’ll also have access to a Telegram support group. This course is for you if you're a woman ready to connect with your inner strength and radiance. You sense there's a deeper wellspring of feminine power within you—and you're ready to cultivate it. Whether you're seeking to restore your vitality, navigating hormonal shifts, or simply longing to feel fully alive in your body, this journey welcomes you exactly as you are. This course also counts 20 credits toward your UHT instructor certification.
Universal Healing Tao Courses
Particularly suitable for those who have studied with Master Mantak Chia or already have a foundation in the Universal Healing Tao (UHT) practices.The UHT System fundamentals include the inner smile, the six healing sounds, the microcosmic orbit and qi self-massage, inner alchemy Qigong and sexual inner alchemy. Other qigong practices include cranial sacral qigong, wisdom qigong, 5-element qigong, Tao Yin, iron shirt, tan tien qigong and others. Gillian is licensed to train and certify new UHT instructors and these courses can be used towards instructor certification.
Pre-recorded classes in English / Italian
Biospirals Method Courses
Level 1-3 pre-recorded classes in English / Italian
The Biospirals Method is a form of Qigong created by Master Franco Mescola, which is a form of qigong which draws on the intelligence of the universe by simulating the cosmic movement of the spiral. Level 1 includes the Biospirals pa tuan chin, the preparatory sequence, Biospirals meditation, breathing techniques and sequence one. Level 2 enriches the practices with a more dynamic static form and additional qigong exercises to support awareness of the physical, energetic body and mind. Level 3 further develops a connection with the fascia system with a walking sequence, enhancing awareness of the breath and pulsation in tune with the cosmos.
Upcoming Events
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2026 Schedule
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Taoist qigong weekend for healing and balance. In person workshop guided by Gillian Reid. Italian only,
Tana, Napoli in Italy.
April 11-12, 2026
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Taoist weeretreat for energy, harmony and renewal based on Universal Healing Tao principles. In person, hosted by Gillian Reid.
Cavallino Treporti, Venice in Italy
April 18-19, 2026
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Taoist organ massage for training for holistic healing. In person taught by Olivier Barre, hosted by Gillan Reid.
Cavallino Treporti, Venice in Italy
June 6-10, 2026
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A 5-day holistic transformational retreat for vitality, feminine awakening and renewal. In person, hosted by GillanReid.
Cavallino Treporti, Venice Italy
July 24-28, 2026
Inner Alchemy Astrology Reading
Discover your energetic blueprint through the ancient Taoist system of Inner Alchemy Astrology, based on Chinese astrology and your BaZi (Four Pillars) chart. Unlike Western astrology, UHT Inner Alchemy Astrology reveals your elemental composition based on your birth date—showing you which organs hold excess energy, which need nourishment, and how your unique constitution shapes your health, emotions, and life path.
In this personalized 1-on-1 session, we'll explore your elemental profile, identify imbalances, and create a customized practice plan using Qigong, meditation, and inner alchemy techniques specific to YOUR energetic needs. You'll leave with clarity about your constitution and practical tools to bring yourself into balance.
Perfect for those who want to understand themselves at the deepest energetic level and practice with precision, not guesswork.
Featured Podcasts
ABUNDANCE UNIVERSE presents The Tao of Transformation with Gillian Reid
In this episode, I sit down with Bijan Machen of the Abundance Universe podcast for a conversation that feels very close to my heart. I share my story — what it was like growing up, how I eventually found the Tao, and what it has meant for my life ever since. We explore my perspectives on Taoist philosophy, wellness, our deep connection to nature, abundance, and what personal transformation truly looks like when you walk this path. I hope something in our conversation resonates with you and sparks your own journey inward.
WATCH THE EPISODE HERE
LIFE IS A FESTIVAL presents Taoist Sexuality: Exploring Yin Energy
In this Taoist sexuality series of Eamon Armstrong’s Life is Festival podcast, I dive into the principles of yin and yang energy, self-love, and intimacy. Join me on the podcast as I share my insights on how to harness Taoist practices like the microcosmic orbit and the jade egg, as well as how to balance energy in relationships.
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE HERE
Healing Love Practice for Women in Universal Healing Tao System
In this conversation, I sit down with Edita Esenku Simkute, a certified instructor from Lithuania, discuss the Healing Love practice for women within the Universal Healing Tao system, taught by Master Mantak Chia.
WATCH THE EPISODE HERE
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