Mantak Chia is a Taoist teacher and author, born in Thailand in 1944, who founded the Universal Healing Tao system of qigong, meditation and energy practices. He is best known for his books on Taoist sexual practice, including The Multi-Orgasmic Man and Taoist Secrets of Love.
Brian Rose has interviewed Master Chia six times on London Real between 2017 and 2025. They have covered his early training in Thailand and his move to teach in New York, the inner smile, Chinese astrology, self-massage for the organs, dark room retreats, fasting, and above all sexual energy and how he teaches people to cultivate it.
Every episode is listed below in order, with a short summary.
Sexual Healing (May 2017). His first London Real interview, and the best introduction: his background in Thailand, how he started teaching in New York and the basics of his practice. For his latest thinking, watch Stop Wasting Your Sexual Energy (2025).
Short clips: Success Secrets (2017), Success Secrets (2018) and Success Secrets (2019).
The theme running through every interview is that sexual energy is the foundation of vitality. Chia teaches that men can learn to separate orgasm from ejaculation and conserve that energy, and that couples can cultivate it together.
In his first interview in 2017 Chia described the inner smile, a meditation in which you direct a sense of warmth and relaxation towards your own body and organs. He stressed that, like all his practices, it only works if you actually do it.
Speaking in 2018, Chia demonstrated self-massage techniques he says keep the vital organs healthy. In 2025 he argued that stress and emotional trauma are held in the organs and can be released through Taoist practice.
Central to his system is the Microcosmic Orbit, a meditation in which practitioners visualise energy moving up the spine and down the front of the body. He presents it as the base for his other practices, including qigong and tai chi.
In November 2018 Chia talked about dark room retreats, Taoist nutrition and fasting as ways to rest the body and mind. He frames these as old practices that suit a stressed modern life.
Mantak Chia is a Taoist teacher and author, born in Thailand in 1944, who founded the Universal Healing Tao system. He has written many books on qigong, meditation and Taoist sexual practice and teaches students around the world.
Across six interviews with Brian Rose from 2017 to 2025, Chia talked about his early life in Thailand, the inner smile, Chinese astrology, organ self-massage, dark room retreats, fasting, the Microcosmic Orbit and how he teaches people to cultivate sexual energy.
Start with Sexual Healing from 2017, his first London Real interview, for his background and the basics of his practice. Then watch Stop Wasting Your Sexual Energy from 2025 for his most recent views.
Six times between 2017 and 2025. Three short Success Secrets clips are also taken from his interviews.
The Universal Healing Tao is the system Chia developed to teach Taoist practices such as qigong, meditation, the Microcosmic Orbit and sexual energy cultivation. He opened a Healing Tao centre in New York in 1979 and now teaches it worldwide.
The inner smile is a meditation Chia teaches in which you direct a sense of warmth and relaxation towards your own body and organs. He described it in his first London Real interview in 2017.
The Multi-Orgasmic Man, written by Mantak Chia with Douglas Abrams and first published in 1996, sets out Taoist techniques that Chia says allow men to separate orgasm from ejaculation. He discusses the same ideas in several of his London Real interviews.
Official site: mantakchia.com
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