Universal Tao

Grandmaster Chia offers a comprehensive annual training program up to the level of Associate and Certified Instructor at TAO-Garden in Thailand. You can find more information here: www.mantakchia.com

All his workshops can also be used as video recordings to accompany the training, see www.mantak-chia-media.com

Since 01.01.2016 you will find the Universal Tao Germany Center in new premises - Kärntener Str. 20 / 1st floor, 10827 Berlin - and in a perfectly central location.

As the headquarters of the non-profit Universal Tao Germany Foundation and the non-profit German teachers' association Universal Tao Germany. We offer all Universal Healing Tao^® teachers a bright training room for training and courses under conditions subsidized by the foundation. For renting the center rooms please contact our association Universal Tao Germany e.V. => Secretariat Jana Marx

The center can also be rented for related workshop topics (medicine, massage, Qigong, Tai Chi, meditation etc.). Please contact us).

The bright and friendly training room has about 60 square metres of open space without pillars and with a new wooden floor.

Conveniently (yet quietly) located near Innsbrucker Platz: 6 minutes on foot to the "S-Bahnhof Berlin-Schöneberg" (S1, S42, S45, S46) and to the "U-Bahnhof Innsbrucker Platz" (U4) buses 187, 248, M46, M85. By car from the city highway B100 "Exit 17 Innsbrucker Platz".

ProBono Statutes :

A central concern of the Universal Tao Germany Foundation is the dissemination of Universal Healing Tao^® (UHT) according to Grand Master Mantak Chia in Germany. In order to enable interested, economically needy people to gain access to this knowledge, the foundation supports socially disadvantaged people in particular by subsidising all UHT events, UHT workshops and UHT training courses.

1.  Funding is available for natural persons in financial need who take part in a UHT (Universal Healing Tao^®) workshop in Germany, which is led by Grand Master Mantak Chia himself or a certified UHT teacher.
2. The following evidence of receipt of state benefits is valid as proof of 'economic need':
    a) Benefits according to the Social Security Code II (‘Harz IV notice’)
    b) Benefits according to the Social Security Code XII (‘social assistance notification’)
    c) Benefits in accordance with the Housing Benefit Act (‘notice of housing benefit’)
    d) Benefits in accordance with § 27a of the Federal Pension Act (war victims and surviving dependants)
    e) Benefits in accordance with § 6a of the Federal Child Benefit Act (‘child supplement notice’)
3. If one of these documents can be presented, proof of 'economic need' is deemed to have been provided (see § 53 no. 2 letter b) sentence 6 AO) and the person concerned can be supported by the Universal-Tao-Germany-Stiftung upon application.
4. The respective neediness must be proven in the funding application. Exceptions may be granted in individual cases after examination.
5. Only certified UHT teachers can apply for funding from the non-profit Universal Tao Germany Foundation as course instructors or as organisers on behalf of Grand Master Mantak Chia or another UHT instructor. The direct application for funding by participants in UHT courses is not provided for under these statutes.
6. A UHT workshop is deemed to be a UHT workshop if the content of the workshop taught corresponds to the current, official UHT training rules, which are part of these statutes. The UHT training rules can be viewed on the official UHT website.
7. Applications for funding, including all attachments, must be received by the Universal Tao Germany Foundation no later than 3 months after the end of the workshop.
8. The written, fully completed funding application must be accompanied by
         a) Proof from the applicant UHT course organiser of the content of the funded UHT workshop
         b) Confirmation from the UHT course organiser that the sponsored person attended the entire UHT workshop
         c) Proof of payment of the sponsored person's own contribution to the applying UHT course organiser
         d) Copy of proof of eligibility for funding (see paragraph 2.)
9. Funding is available for up to 30% of the respective course fee, up to a maximum of €500 per financial year. Several, up to a maximum of nine thematically related courses can be funded from a total course fee of €140.
10.Projects such as trademark measures, legal disputes, UHT book productions, UHT video productions and UHT advertising measures to promote Grandmaster Mantak Chia's events and his teaching system can also be supported.
11.Any abuse of these ProBono Bylaws may result in the reclaiming of funds granted and the disqualification of future grants.
12.Funding can only be granted as long as sufficient funds are available from the foundation's capital.
13.A legal claim to funding is excluded.