MEDICAL QIGONG & DAOIST COUNSELING
Restore Balance.
Reclaim Clarity.
Classical Daoist practices for physical restoration,
emotional regulation, and mental clarity.
Available in person in Costa Mesa, CA, and virtually worldwide.
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Who This Serves
This Work May Be a Fit If...
Medical Qigong and Daoist Counseling are not for everyone.
They require genuine engagement. These are the patterns that this work addresses most directly.
You Are Running on Empty
The exhaustion goes beyond sleep. Productivity tools, supplements, and rest cycles have not resolved it. Chronic depletion has an energetic structure. This work addresses that structure directly.
You Lead at a High Level
Sustained high performance carries a systemic cost. Executives and founders carry organizational stress in their bodies over time. This work helps you restore what long-term output has consumed.
Grief or Trauma Lives in the Body
Unprocessed experience does not stay in the mind. It settles into the tissue, breath, and energy field. This work creates a pathway through what talk-based approaches cannot always reach.
You Are a Serious Practitioner
You have a meditation or movement practice. You want to go deeper than technique. Daoist Counseling and Medical Qigong offer a structured, lineage-based path for practitioners ready for that depth.
You Want Whole-Person Care
Not a symptom addressed. Not a diagnosis managed. You want care that treats the entire system, physical, energetic, emotional, and contemplative, as one coherent whole.
The Process
What Happens in a Session
Each session is its own complete encounter. The structure below applies to both initial visits and follow-ups, with variations in depth and method as the work progresses.
Physical & Emotional Assessment
The session opens with a review of your current state, physical symptoms, emotional patterns, sleep, energy levels, and life stressors. In the initial visit, this is a comprehensive intake. In follow-ups, it tracks progress and shifts since the last session.
Energetic assessment
Working through the classical Medical Qigong (Biofield Therapy) assessment, the session identifies where qi is stagnant, deficient, or excessive. This evaluation informs everything that follows. It uses no instruments and requires no disrobing.
Tailor-made session
Direct energetic work using classical Medical Qigong (Biofield Therapy) methods: emission, purgation, tonification, and regulation. In virtual sessions, this is conducted remotely with the same level of depth and precision as in-person work.
Therapeutic Qigong exercise
You leave with a specific practice assigned for the period between sessions. This may include Qigong movements, breathwork, sound, meditation, or Daoist regulation practices. The home prescription is where much of the integration happens.
Services
What Is Offered
Sessions are available in person in Costa Mesa, California, and virtually worldwide. Each session is tailored to the individual.
In-Person Session
Hands-on, energetic assessment and direct treatment in a focused clinical environment. Full use of classical Medical Qigong methods, including physical contact and in-field
work.
Virtual Session
Full sessions conducted via video. Distance does not diminish the depth of the work. Energetic assessment, direct treatment, and home prescription are all available
remotely.
AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
Daoist Counseling
Pattern-based counseling grounded in Daoist philosophy and classical Chinese medicine. Addresses the mental and emotional roots of chronic imbalance, stagnation, and habitual reactivity.
IN PERSON & VIRTUAL
Background
Training & Depth
This work is rooted in over 20 years of practice, formal academic study, lineage transmission, and direct training in China. The breadth of traditions is not eclecticism. It is a deliberate foundation for precise and effective clinical work.
Doctoral Training in Medical Qigong
Doctoral-level clinical training in Medical Qigong with a specialized emphasis in oncological support and chronic disease. This includes direct work with individuals undergoing or recovering from cancer treatment, supporting their conventional medical care, not replacing it. It also includes sustained conditions such as autoimmune patterns, chronic pain, and long-term energetic depletion.
Direct Training in China
Completed formal academic and clinical training in China, studying Daoist energetic arts and Classical Chinese Medicine under leading scholars and living masters in the field. This immersive program integrated university-level instruction with hands-on clinical practice, representing a standard of training uncommon among Western-trained Medical Qigong practitioners.
Breadth Across Traditions
Formal training spanning multiple classical Eastern and Western philosophical traditions produces a distinct clinical advantage: the ability to contextualize practice in ways that are genuinely accessible to each client, regardless of their background or belief system.
Investment
Sessions & Packages
Packages are designed to support a complete course of work. Consistency is a core principle of the practice.
Client Experiences
What Clients Say
"After three sessions, I noticed a quality of quiet that I had not felt in years. Not relaxation exactly. More like the noise was gone, I kept waiting for it to return. It did not."
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"I came to Diego after a cancer diagnosis. I was not looking for a cure. I was looking for something to hold onto while I went through treatment. What I found was more than that."
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"I run a company. I have tried everything for burnout. Therapy, retreats, exercise protocols. Diego's work went somewhere different. Something structural shifted in a way I cannot fully explain but can clearly feel."
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"I have had a meditation practice for over fifteen years. This work took me to a level of depth I had been circling for a long time. It is not what I expected. It is better."S
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ABOUT
DIEGO SANMIQUEL
Doctor of Medical Qigong
Daoist Abbot
Diego Sanmiquel holds a doctoral-level degree in Medical Qigong and brings over 20 years of formal study and practice in classical Daoist and Chinese energetic arts. His advanced training carries a specialized emphasis in oncological support and chronic disease management, and includes direct clinical and academic training in China, where he studied and practiced in Chinese medical hospitals under recognized teachers in the field.
He serves as Deputy Chair of the National Qigong Association (NQA) and holds board membership with the organization. His academic background includes an MBA from Pepperdine University, providing an uncommon fluency across classical Eastern practice and modern organizational systems.
His cross-disciplinary training spans classical Eastern and Western philosophical traditions, not as an eclectic mix, but as a structured foundation for highly adaptive, client-centered practice. The goal is never ideological. It is to restore function, clarity, and wellbeing.
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Book an Initial Visit to begin. If you are unsure whether this work is right for
you, reach out before booking. No pressure, no pitch.
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Medical Qigong and Daoist Counseling are not licensed medical or mental health services and do not constitute diagnosis, treatment, or medical advice. These services are intended to support well-being and do not replace care from a licensed physician, mental health professional, or other qualified healthcare provider. Individuals with serious medical or psychiatric conditions should consult their healthcare provider before beginning any new wellness practice.
For oncological and chronic disease contexts, this work is offered as a complementary support practice alongside, not as a substitute for, conventional medical treatment.
