The 79-acre Vista Clara Ranch Spa Resort in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been bought by California-based The Chi Center, which will transform the spa into The Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong.

The new centre will open in October, with the first healing-intensive retreat taking place 7 October - 4 November.

“This will be a unique environment for connection to inner wisdom and healing,” said Master Mingtong Gu, founder of The Chi Center. “People will come from all over the world; there is nothing quite like it in North America.”

The new centre will be dedicated to the practice and teaching of Wisdom Healing Qigong, which is based on the practices of 19 Qigong traditions and developed by Dr Ming Pang in China in the 1980s.

Wisdome Healing Qigong is described as an integration of East/West, mind/body and science/spiritual teachings for better happiness and health.

The Chi Center will also introduce new online courses to coincide with the opening of the new centre.