The Power Of Tao: Live A Life Of Harmony & Balance - by Olivia Rosewood

COURSE

The Power Of Tao: Live A Life Of Harmony & Balance

With Olivia Rosewood

Over the next 10 days, you’ll gain a practical understanding of the 8 foundational pillars of Taoist meditation and learn to apply ancient Taoist principles of lasting inner peace to everyday life. Day by day, you’ll be guided to utilize this beautiful philosophy in a down to earth, practical way. Taoist meditative tools uplift and transform your experience, perspective, and life momentum naturally. Discover how to rise above daily stress to reveal harmony and balance within yourself and throughout your everyday life.

WisdomHealth & HappinessVisualizationHappinessTaoismReligionSpiritualitySpiritualityTaoist Meditation

Meet your Teacher

Olivia Rosewood
Los Angeles

Dr. Mao Shing Ni and Olivia Rosewood collaborate with a purpose of deepening peace, wellness, and harmony within Insight Timer's beautiful community. Dr. Mao, D.O.M., PH.D, ABAAHP, carries on the unbroken family lineage of Taoist master healers reaching back 38 generations. ​Well known and respected in the field of integrative medicine, he is the cofounder of Yo San University and holds two doctorates as well as being board certified in anti-aging medicine. Dr. Mao has written 18 books. He is Co-Chancellor of College of Tao. Olivia Rosewood, D.D., is a meditation guide, two time Tai Chi gold medalist, and author. Her life devoted to meditation and the cultivation of peace, a profound influence is Eckhart Tolle, with whom she has traveled and worked, although she has meditated with many teachers all over the world. Olivia is the founder of The Portable Sanctuary, a nonprofit spiritual center in Los Angeles. She is the Director of College of Tao.

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10 Days

5.4k students

4.5 stars

13 min / day

Wisdom

English

Lesson 1

Symbiosis With Nature: The Sun

Taoist meditation is unique in its integration of nature and the universe into meditation. Find harmony within yourself and with the natural world every day. Deepen and strengthen your relationship with nature by integrating the sun, moon, stars, forests, flowers, rivers, sea, and all of nature into your meditation practice.

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Lesson 2

The Secret Wisdom of Double Rainbows

Sensing energy is a foundational practice in Taoist meditation. It is also helpful in daily living. Sensing energy requires alertness, a sense of ever present readiness. You might realize you can live your life more fully by being more alert and sensitive to energy.

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Lesson 3

How to Win at Sumo Wrestling

What is Wu Wei? Practicing non-resistance to what is without becoming complacent is a delicate balance. In the Taoist tradition, pain arises due to stagnation, or energy blockage. Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase, “water that flows never decays”? Allowing life to flow through you, as you, is a way of finding harmony with your surroundings, and flowing toward change. It’s a way of finding a way through problems instead of getting stuck in them. Instead struggling against the current of the universe, Wu Wei is a way of flowing with life.

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Lesson 4

More Precious Than Gold

What's more precious than gold? You already have it. Everyone wants as much of it as possible. It can win wars. It's kindness. Kindness in the terms of Taoist meditation and tradition is a way of being. The Tao the Ching speaks of the power kindness. In this session you'll find out how this is implemented in life.

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Lesson 5

The Cosmic Strawberry

What is universal awareness? Have you ever forgotten the greatness of the universe in time and space by becoming fixated on your problems alone, thinking and rethinking of only your individual challenges? Remaining aware of the vast expanse of time and space helps to keep problems in perspective, and therefore more manageable. A crucial aspect of energy cultivation is this universal awareness. What is energy cultivation? You can think of it as adding more life to your life.

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Lesson 6

Careful Consumption

Nourishment can come in many forms, including visual consumption. In this session you'll be ask to consider what is your daily diet, visually, and taught to be aware of the influence of what you visually consume has on you.

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Lesson 7

Inner Light

Can you know the way of bliss without leaving your home? Perhaps what your are seeking is what is seeking. Discovering and nurturing your inner light, inner vision, is movement toward enlightenment. Brighten the light of awareness within yourself and naturally become a radiant beacon of vibrant inner and outer peace.

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Lesson 8

Tao Guan

Presence and being is practice is a meditation with no beginning and no end. From the contemplative meditation pillar of traditional Taoist meditation, Wu Tao is simple and profound. Can you be fully present in each now? Can your body, mind, and spirit be in the same place at once? From this unity, there is flexible strength.

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Lesson 9

Magic Words

In the Taoist tradition, words are considered more powerful than thunder: handle with care. How do you handle words that are spoken to you? Are you precise with the words you speak? You can think of words like dragons, each one leaving the cave of your being with an intention and character, carefully crafted by your thought. The power of words is explored in depth in the pillar of ancient Taoist Invocation Meditation.

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Lesson 10

It's All About Balance

Keep a balanced view: by keeping one foot in the practical world, and the other foot in cosmic awareness, carefully navigate your life maintaining balance in every aspect of your life. Find financial, emotional, career, physical, and spiritual balance. How does this work? Balance benefits all beings. For example, too much water in the form of a flood can be dangerously problematic. Not enough water in the form of a draught can be equally threatening. But water, when in harmonious balance, is wonderful and necessary for thriving happiness. Strike a balance in every area, and find true harmonious contentment in every moment.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 69 community questions and 62 audio replies from Olivia Rosewood. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Richard

June 11, 2025

So good to hear calm relaxed people discuss ancient Wisdom that in so relevant to this busy World we live in. Just to listen to a sparrow chirp, to watch a sunset actually set can calm our busy minds. I intend to delve deeper in to all things Tao or Dao 🧘🏽‍♂️

Richard

June 5, 2025

Excellent. I've got so much out of this. Thank you to you both.

Chad

January 18, 2025

Loved your course

Wayne

August 31, 2023

Yhanks for an engaging course and good suggestions to put things into practice.

Monica

June 6, 2023

I enjoyed listening and learning about the principles of Tao through thought provoking, conversations. This course is well structured, easy to follow and to comprehend.

Eric

April 17, 2023

A rewarding and impactful teaching of Tao principles delivered in a calm and soothing way.

Gina

March 7, 2023

The content was good; but the presenters where using meditation voices. It gave an non-authentic feel to the presenters. It was hard to listen to. I want to be engaged when I'm learning something not put to sleep.

Carole

August 6, 2022

This short course is full of wisdom, given in ways we are able to use in our everyday lives. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and teachings.

John

July 16, 2022

Thank you so much! This was very much food for thought and awareness!

Linda

June 15, 2022

Wonderful class!! So rich in wisdom. Thank you!! ❤️

Hadrian

January 24, 2022

You two yourselves are a picture of Balance in flow 💜 Thank you and may you always walk on warm sands! 🙏

Rodrigo

October 28, 2021

Thank you so much for this deep and wonderful knkwledge ! 🙏

Samantha

October 12, 2021

Lovely course and extremely helpful for regenerating balance and reconnection with natural energies. Thank you very much. Like the conversational style of student and master too.

Rebecka

September 23, 2021

Jaya

April 8, 2021

Thank you for your efforts. There a some valuable things in this course. However, 2 things I want to give feedback to. 1. There is no née to introduce yourself at the beginning of each talk. Luckily I can skip over it with my premium account other do not have this luxury. 2. The voice of the teacher delivering the messages comes over as sounding a bit arrogant. That makes it difficult to digest the otherwise valuable teachings. Also instead of always referring to “you” there is a way of saying we. Which would us feel closer you. Thank for reading. Jaya

Rosanne

March 26, 2021

A beautiful series. I hope there are more. Thank you so much!

Brian

March 11, 2021

Lovely series of Q&A conversations about Taoist principles. Hoping for an extended series of guided meditations to accompany these fun principles.

John

March 3, 2021

Thank you Olivia & Dr Mao. Great overview of integrating the way of balance into our daily lives. Peace be the journey!

katie

February 13, 2021

Thank you, so much.

Anju

February 10, 2021

Beautiful teachings! Enjoyed it! Thank you❤️🙏✨

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