Student Jorney

Level 1: Beginner

At this level, you don’t have to know anything about Qi Gong. You only need a willingness to start your journey to improved health and wellness.

You are simply exploring how to move your body in a meditative way. Through gentle and rhythmic movement, you give yourself a natural energy boost, calm your mind, and deepen your connection to nature.

30-Day Challenge (7-minute Qi Gong routines)

You're ready for the next step when..

You have completed most or all of the 30-Day Challenge. You can perform the 7-minute routines without stopping.

Level 2: Advanced Beginner

You’ve practiced Qi Gong for about a month or two. Your Qi is activated and you're looking for more. You're ready to some more focused movements and flows to target specific ailments or, better yet, you're thinking proactively and building resiliency.

The Learning Series

Advancing your practice to longer routines creates a more powerful opportunity to take control of your health. The Learning Series is the perfect next step on your journey. There are five programs in this collection. Each program has a 20-minute routine, and an extended, 40-minute routine to help increase energy flow, reduce pain, and improve vitality.

The Learning Series

The Healing Series

The Healing Series is a collection of 12 programs focused on addressing specific health topics like Anxiety. Heart Health, High Blood Pressure, Back, and Neck Pain relief. At just $27, these programs deliver healthy, lasting relief for less than a single doctor's visit copay.

Explore the Healing Series

Qi Gong for High Blood Pressure Product image. Lee is standing on smooth river rocks with a gentle stream to his left. His arms are extended to each side.

Qi Gong for a Healthy Heart product image. Lee is facing his right with his right arm extended in front of him with his palm turned upward. his right knee is bent is a powerful stance.

Qi Gong for the Upper back and neck product image. Lee is standing on a rocks formation with sheer rocks cliffs rising form an evergreen forest in the background. There is a waterfall in the right side of the image. Lee is facing left and practicing qi gong.

Qi Gong on a plateau. Lee's right leg is lifted with a bent knee. His right arm is lifted with fingers spread open.

Qi Gong Workshops

Elevate your learning with Qi Gong Workshops. Join Lee for an in-depth training session with purpose. Workshops are more comprehensive opportunities to address specific needs and goals, or maximize your energy building.

Lee offers live workshops several times per year. Each workshop is recorded and available on-demand whenever you want or need it. Choose from 40 different workshops.

Find Your Next Workshop

You're ready for the next step when..

You do a 20-minute routine without stopping. You exercise at least twice a week (or want to). You've completed a Qi Gong workshop.

Level 3: Video Class Subscriber

You've been practicing a two month and enjoying the energy you feel when you practice and after. Now, building a consistent practice is the goal. This is a great time to add Live Video Classes to your growing set of wellness tools.

Lee hosts Live, Virtual Classes every week to keep your routine fresh, fun, and sustainable. Lee is at his best when he's teaching Live, and the Holden QiGong community is inspiring.

Lee Holden teaching a Live Video Class in the Holden QiGong studio. Lee is leaning to his right with both arms reaching right and his left knee bent. Lee is wearing a royal blue long sleeved shirt and tan pants. There is a slate wall background with several plants behind Lee.

The Video Class Subscription is a monthly subscription where you get access to live and recorded classes with Lee. It’s the best way to deepen your Qi Gong practice over the long-run because you’ll get three new routines each week… plus you get to practice with the rest of the community (if you want to) during the live streamed classes.

Free Video Classes for Two-Weeks

You're ready for the next step when..

You can sense subtle energy shifts in your body/energy system. You have an established practice of at least two routines a week for at least twenty minutes. You are a VCS member and established a regular practice.

Level 4: Beginner-Intermediate

Your focus here is to increase your ability to sense subtle energy shifts in your body and how to interpret them. You want to deepen that sensitivity by practicing consistently and staying on track.

These are programs to explore at Level 4:

Swimming Dragon

“Swimming Dragon will help you add years to your life, and life to your years” - Lee Holden

Five Elements Course

In the Five Elements online Qi Gong course, you will learn ancient Qi Gong healing secrets to awaken your body’s inna...

White Crane Qi Gong Workshop

White Crane uses wave-like movements that focus on the upper body, chest, and lungs. This enlivens the spine and na...

Eight Pieces of the Silk Brocade Course

The way in which we respond to adversity has a profound effect on all aspects of our lives. It’s inevitable that we’ll enc...

Five Animal Frolics Course

Discover one of the earliest forms of Qi Gong in Chinese history in The Five Animal Frolics Online Course. The three-...

Swimming Dragon

“Swimming Dragon will help you add years to your life, and life to your years” - Lee Holden

Five Elements Course

In the Five Elements online Qi Gong course, you will learn ancient Qi Gong healing secrets to awaken your body’s inna...

White Crane Qi Gong Workshop

White Crane uses wave-like movements that focus on the upper body, chest, and lungs. This enlivens the spine and na...

Eight Pieces of the Silk Brocade Course

The way in which we respond to adversity has a profound effect on all aspects of our lives. It’s inevitable that we’ll enc...

Five Animal Frolics Course

Discover one of the earliest forms of Qi Gong in Chinese history in The Five Animal Frolics Online Course. The three-...

You're ready for the next step when..

You understand basic Five Element Theory. You’ve explored at least one “named” Qi Gong form like White Crane or Five Animal Frolics. You’ve maintained your practice for at least six months (with a break here and there).

Level 5: Intermediate

You practiced for at least six to twelve months or more.

This is when things get really fun. Here you start learning to control Qi flow in your body.

You understand your energy on a very subtle level, but here you learn how to control Qi it and move it on demand. This ability to move Qi on command catapults you into a whole new level.

Level 7: Teacher Certification

This is the level Lee hopes every student will one day reach.

“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”

Here, you are starting to become skilled enough to teach Qi Gong classes in your community, you just need guidance from a teacher who has made a successful business from doing it. The physical and emotional benefits of the program can be transformative for everyone. There’s no obligation to teach. but we give every student the opportunity if they choose.

After completing the Tier 1 Teacher Certification program, you're ready for Tier 2

Tier 1 Certification Tier 2 Certification

The Holden QiGong
Student Journey

Level 1: Beginner