Holden QiGong

09/14/2025

Today at 1 p.m. Pacific Lee and Karen Holden are hosting our Gong for Grief Workshop.

You'll learn to process and express your grief through movement, breathwork, meditation, and more.

In this safe space, you'll be invited to turn toward your grief and be with it, so healing can unfold with compassion and self-care. Whether you've recently experienced a loss, experienced loss long ago, or want tools you can use in the future…

Use the natural healing gifts of your body to:

✨ Unlock any and all emotions your body has been holding onto—pain, sorrow, anger, and more—to finally give them a safe path to release
✨ Feel a deeper, more active connection to loved ones who've passed by cultivating love, gratitude, and appreciation
✨ Learn how to ride the waves of grief with grace, so when the next wave comes, it carries you…. not overwhelms you
✨ Experience a soothing meditation from trauma-informed guide Karen Holden that gently transforms emotional pain into peace and clarity
✨ Harness the healing power of dry crying, sound, pressure points, breathwork, and Qi Gong movement to let grief flow naturally
✨ Walk away with a comprehensive grief-support toolkit (including herbal remedies, journaling exercises, nature re-connection rituals, and more)

Join us for a healing workshop that honors your unique journey through grief in a safe and supportive online environment. Go to our website, check the comments below, or go to the link in our profile to register.

09/12/2025

The Soaring Crane exercise teaches us to breathe with intention:

🌬️ Inhale inspiration, peace, and healing.

🌬️ Exhale despair, grief, and overwhelm.

With every movement, we refresh our energy, clear what no longer serves us, and return to our inner strength — our righteous Qi. ✨

Take a moment now: inhale deeply, feel your lungs expand… and exhale fully, letting go of the weight you don't need to carry.

09/11/2025

In Chinese medicine, grief lives in the lungs. That heaviness in the chest, that shallow breath — it's how loss shows up in the body.

But with each deep inhale, we invite Qi back into the chest… and with every exhale, we let go, like autumn leaves falling to the earth. 🌬️

Breath becomes transformation. Grief becomes inspiration. Life flows again.

Take a deep breath now — what new energy do you want to invite in?

09/10/2025

Grief doesn't just mark what we've lost — it shows us how deeply we've loved and lived. When we allow ourselves to truly feel it, grief can soften into gratitude… and gratitude into appreciation.

What's one way you've transformed grief into deeper appreciation for life?

09/06/2025

Registration is now open for our Qi Gong for Grief Workshop.

Learn to process and express your grief through movement, breathwork, meditation, and more.

In this safe space, you'll be invited to turn toward your grief and be with it, so healing can unfold with compassion and self-care. Whether you've recently experienced a loss, experienced loss long ago, or want tools you can use in the future…

Use the natural healing gifts of your body to:

✨ Unlock any and all emotions your body has been holding onto—pain, sorrow, anger, and more—to finally give them a safe path to release
✨ Feel a deeper, more active connection to loved ones who've passed by cultivating love, gratitude, and appreciation
✨ Learn how to ride the waves of grief with grace, so when the next wave comes, it carries you…. not overwhelms you
✨ Experience a soothing meditation from trauma-informed guide Karen Holden that gently transforms emotional pain into peace and clarity
✨ Harness the healing power of dry crying, sound, pressure points, breathwork, and Qi Gong movement to let grief flow naturally
✨ Walk away with a comprehensive grief-support toolkit (including herbal remedies, journaling exercises, nature re-connection rituals, and more)

Join us on September 14th for a healing workshop that honors your unique journey through grief in a safe and supportive online environment.

09/03/2025

Upcoming Holden QiGong Events

✨ September 14th | Qi Gong for Grief Workshop
✨ September 29th | Iron Shirt Online Course: 2025 Cohort

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September 14th | Qi Gong for Grief Workshop
A 3.5-hour live online workshop with Lee and Karen Holden

Learn to process and express your grief through movement, breathwork, meditation, and more.

In this safe space, you'll be invited to turn toward your grief and be with it, so healing can unfold with compassion and self-care. Whether you've recently experienced a loss, experienced loss long ago, or want tools you can use in the future…

You'll use the natural healing gifts of your body to:

✅ Unlock any and all emotions your body has been holding onto—pain, sorrow, anger, and more—to finally give them a safe path to release
✅ Feel a deeper, more active connection to loved ones who've passed by cultivating love, gratitude, and appreciation
✅ Learn how to ride the waves of grief with grace, so when the next wave comes, it carries you…. not overwhelms younection rituals, and more)

Join us on September 14th for a healing workshop that honors your unique journey through grief in a safe and supportive online environment.
Registration is coming soon.

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September 29th | Iron Shirt Online Course 2025 Cohort

Shaolin monks first practiced Iron Shirt Qi Gong to protect themselves from invading armies. There are stories of 100 monks defeating armies of 10,000.

Today, Iron Shirt is practiced for energy cultivation and building internal power. Also known as Golden Shield or Tree Meditation, the Iron Shirt Qi Gong practice builds Qi (life-force energy) through the body to cultivate power, strength, and resiliency. It's as if practitioners create an energetic "armor" around their bodies.

In the Iron Shirt Online Course, you will use this ancient Qi Gong form to protect your immune system, build strength in your tendons and bones, and reverse the effects of aging. You'll also learn routines to withstand blows that modern life can deal us: stress from the news and other people, among others.

Stay tuned for registration.

08/28/2025

On the very first day of our brand-new Three Treasures Online Course, Lee Holden opened with a powerful introduction that set the tone for the entire training.

In just one lesson, you’ll explore:

✨ How the Three Treasures help you answer life’s biggest questions: Who am I? and Why am I here?

✨ Why your greatest treasures are already within you.

✨ How to work skillfully with your own energy to improve health and vitality.

✨ Why you are—by birthright—an “energetic millionaire.”

We’re sharing this entire first lesson with you for free. It’s your chance to experience the foundations of this transformative practice.

https://holdenqigong.com/p/three-treasures-sample

P.S. Enrollment in the Three Treasures Online Course closes tonight, August 28th at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. Go to the link above to enroll.

Watch the first lesson from Holden QiGong's Three Treasures Online Course.

08/23/2025

As we float the arms to the chest, we awaken the Qi of the heart. 💓

Here lives the treasure of joy, gratitude, compassion, and happiness — the high-frequency energy of the middle dantian, the second treasure.

Every breath, every movement, is an invitation to let more of that energy flow through you.

The Three Treasures Online Course begins today at 11 a.m. Pacific. Go to https://holdenqigong.com/ to learn more and enroll.

08/23/2025

The Three Treasures Online Course with Lee Holden begins today at 11 a.m. Pacific.

Jing. Qi. Shen. ✨
Essence, energy, spirit.

They are the foundation of vitality, and when nurtured, they bring balance to body, heart, and mind.

Over the next 16 weeks, we'll explore these treasures together through gentle QiGong practices, meditations, live teachings, and a supportive community.

Here's how one student, Margaret, described her experience in the Three Treasures course:

"Now, I feel more in control of my life. I have a sense of what to reach for when things get hard—a practice that is mine, that steadies me when the waves feel too big. I just feel better overall. Even on tough days, I know there's something I can do."

If this feels like something your spirit has been asking for, the invitation is here. 🌸

Go to https://holdenqigong.com/ to learn more and enroll.

08/22/2025

The Three Treasures of Taoist wisdom:

✨ Jing – your body, the essence of life
✨ Qi – your vitality, emotional energy
✨ Shen – your spirit, consciousness

Together, they form the foundation of who you are. 🌿

QiGong helps you nurture all three.

08/22/2025

Most people assume fading energy is just part of aging.

But what if it's not?

What if your light could actually grow stronger with time?

QiGong teaches us how to tap into the "treasures" within—the reservoirs of energy, vitality, and spirit that don't disappear with age… they expand when nurtured.

That's the heart of the Three Treasures course with Lee Holden.

We begin tomorrow.

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08/21/2025

For the first time since 2018, Lee is teaching the Three Treasures Online Course live! This is your rare opportunity to explore the fundamental building blocks of your energy system, directly with Lee in a supportive online setting.

The Three Treasures (Jing, Qi, and Shen) are the core of who you are. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, they represent your essence, vitality, and spirit… and awakening them helps you reconnect with your truest self.

In this four-month online course starting August 23rd & 24th, you'll:

🌍 Explore the foundational energies that shape your entire being—Jing (essence), Qi (life force), and Shen (spirit)—through guided practice, Taoist philosophy discussion, and self-reflection
✨ Discover gentle Qi Gong flows, meditations, and breathwork to awaken and energize each treasure (including the nourishing Microcosmic Orbit practice)
⚡️ Uncover why you feel scattered, stuck, or spiritually disconnected… and transform those patterns by working with your energy at the source
❓ Get answers to three seemingly simple, but deceptively powerful questions—Where am I? What do I want? Who am I?—and open the door to a deeper understanding of yourself and your purpose.

The journey begins August 23rd. Go to https://www.holdenqigong.com/ to learn more and enroll.