Lee Holden – Qigong to Supercharge Your Immune System

In this opening session, Lee will guide you to discover the roadmap you’ll need to prevent disease and build an ironclad immune system.

You’ll start by pinpointing where you are on your map right now, and how to get to the treasures you seek: less stress, more energy, abundant vitality, and supercharged immunity. Next you’ll take a quick look at the 5 Branches of Chinese Medicine and how they support your Wei Qi — your protective energy.

Then Lee will take you through a simple, elegant progression of movements to release stress and cultivate your Qi — so your immune system can function at its best.

During this class, you’ll:

• Discover your personal roadmap for transforming stress into vitality
• Experience an Inquiry Meditation to answer the question, Where am I right now on my path to greater health?
• Explore the 5 Branches of Chinese Medicine — and precisely how preventative healthcare is true healthcare
• Massage your body’s 2 primary pressure points for boosting Wei Qi
• Do a healing-oriented flow of energy-activation movements, standing postures, and breathwork
• Experience a Dissolving Into Qi meditation to shift your consciousness into the invisible world of energy

Qigong has been called “The Art That Prevents Disease and Prolongs Life.” In this module, you’ll dive into grounding principles and elevated aspects of Qigong to activate the innate healing power within you.

You’ll discover the primary factor that Traditional Chinese Medicine views as the root cause of disease. You’ll find out what lowers immunity in the Qigong view, and how to cultivate “Righteous Qi” so there’s no room for negative energy to come in and deplete your immune function.

Lee will also lead you through an Inquiry Meditation to help you navigate the next steps on your roadmap. And he’ll guide you through this session’s immune-boosting Qigong workout — as well as one of the simplest, most easily satisfying practices there is to cultivate positive energy within yourself.

In this class, you’ll explore:

• Powerful postures to build and tonify your Qi
• The relationship between stress — the root cause of disease — and immunity
• How many kinds of Qi there are (more than you might think!), and how to optimize them to prevent disease
• “Pathogenic Qi” versus “Righteous Qi” — why one person can contract an illness and another person doesn’t, or why one person who has an illness suffers greatly and another recovers easily
• How to use the power of your breath to cultivate Zhong Qi, which nourishes your heart and lungs
• An Inquiry Meditation into how to release stress and increase energy
• The Transform Stress Into Vitality Qigong workout
• The Inner-Smile Meditation, a powerful self-compassion practice for cultivating healing energy in your organs and boosting your immune system with feel-good chemistry

With over 3,000 styles of Qigong out there, how do you know what to practice or which techniques you need in your life at this time?

In this module, Lee will introduce the 7 Principles of Qigong to give you a deeper understanding of the practice. Exploring the “why” and “when” behind each element of a Qigong routine empowers you to easily craft a practice based on your own intentions and what feels nourishing to you.

This will also help you squeeze more out of the practices you’ve learned so far, and get clarity on what to include — and when to include it — in practices you create yourself to lower anxiety, increase vitality, prevent disease, and supercharge your immunity. As you’ll see, you can tailor health-boosting practices just for yourself, or for those you’re staying at home with too.

This session, Lee will show you:

• The first few 7 Principles of Qigong, and how to weave them together as powerful components of your own holistic routine
• An illustration of how Principle 1 (Breathe) affects your body, emotions, and spirit
• How to use your breath — your quickest source to energy — to change your mood and posture
• How to use Principle 2 (Activate) to increase Qi through your entire system
• Why warming up is crucial to Principle 3 (Invigorate), and how to circulate energy when you’re warming up
• Tips for weaving in stretches that focus not only on flexibility, but on strength and resilience too
• How Principle 4 (Stretch) relates to the Water element

In this module, you’ll finish your dive into the 7 Principles of Qigong. And you’ll delve further into how to rev up your self-healing powers when you create your own routines (or practice any set of routines).

Self-healing is a resource everyone should have access to. Modern medicine is full of frustrations — from the long waits in doctors’ offices to the distressing side effects of pharmaceuticals. But with your body’s tremendous healing power, you possess a wise and intelligent system that knows how to self-regulate.

You’ll explore:

• The 7 key acupressure points for self-healing
• Buddha Palm Qigong, an ancient secret Taoist technique for healing hands
• How to harness your inner potential for self-healing with self-love and compassion
• Ways to help a friend or family member gain access to their own strength and power
• The importance of Principle 5 (Flow) for cultivating healing power
• How to stay mindful of Principle 6 (Posture) in every practice
• How to integrate your practice and activate self-healing with the essential Principle 7 (Meditation)

As you’ve explored, flow is a key principle in Qigong — and Qigong is one of the only forms of exercise that focuses on flowing, water-like movements.

Of all the elements, water is the most flexible. It’s both soft and powerful. It teaches you exactly what the ancients meant when they described Qigong as “The Art of Effortless Power.”

This session, by mirroring the movements of water, you’ll wash away stress and stagnation and develop your inner healing power even further.

You’ll also find out how to create moments where you’re in the flow state, where you feel heightened energy, less stress, connected to the activities you do, and better able than ever to live in a healthy, resilient, joyful way — in deep compassion for yourself and the rest of life, no matter what’s going on in the world.

In this module, you’ll discover how to:

• Move your body like water and release tension
• Effortlessly drop into the flow state at will for peak performance — in your work, your creativity, your workouts, all of your activities
• Allow the flow state to elevate your energy, which supercharges your immune system
• Feel alive and connected to what you’re doing each and every day
• Benefit (again and again) from the Ice to Water, Water to Steam meditation

Now that you’ve explored flow in depth, this module will show you how postures are the banks of your river of flow. When the banks are intact, the water flows. Without strong banks, the water leaks out.

In this module, Lee will take you through postures that provide structure for tapping into your healing power. As you’ll explore, your body is like an antenna, a conduit of energy and information. By holding postures with the correct intent, you’ll plug into healing energy and power up your entire mind/body system.

This session, you’ll explore:

• Powerful postures to build and tonify your Qi
• The best postural alignment for the strong flow of energy
• Muscle-, ligament-, and tendon-strengthening postures to release dormant energy, bringing forth your inner strength
• How to tap into Source energy
• The 3 Fundamental Energies: Universe, Earth, and Nature
• An integration meditation

In your final session with Lee, he’ll share how to sustain your practice and integrate its healing and preventative power in your everyday life.

You’ll pull out your roadmap to see how far you’ve come — and you may notice that you’re moving with greater ease, you’re feeling a new sense of peace, and your body feels stronger, more relaxed, and better able to protect itself.

You’ll also find out how to keep creating the life you truly want with the energy that requires: energy of mind, body, and emotion. You’ll come away with practices you can use for a lifetime to support a supercharged immune system and a healthy, joyous life.

In this closing session, you’ll discover:

• A replenishing-energy strategy for embodying your innate healing power every day
• THE stress-clearing life strategy
• How to use Qigong to create loving relationships
• How to use Qi to manifest a state of health and a way of living that you love

Each of the 5 Elements (Water, Wood, Metal, Fire, and Earth) connects to an internal organ, a body system, and positive and negative emotions. When you work with the elements, you integrate the energies within you from the inside out — physically, mentally, and emotionally — which makes you feel happy, healthy, and whole.

With this classic sequence of movements, you’ll:

• Open your meridian lines — the rivers of energy that flow through your body and energize your internal organs
• Relax into the present moment and access your flow
• Feel connected to your inner strength, power, and grace

Do you find quieting your mind challenging or elusive? Many people find it as tricky as catching wind in a net.

With Qigong, you can quiet your mind through your body because your body is always in the present moment, always right here. Pay attention to your body and your mind enters the present moment.

This practice gives you tools and resources to work with breath, energy, movement, and relaxation so you drop into a deep, rich experience of the present moment and start living with more presence, passion, and vitality.

Emotional balance is so elusive in modern life — especially now. But there really are ways to achieve it — and one way is giving yourself a mini-vacation. True, we can’t go anywhere right now, but you can always retreat into your inner power and draw it forth into this moment.

With this bonus Qigong workshop, you’ll journey into the heart of your capacity for calm, relaxation, and presentness. This video is all about quick, easy-to-do Qigong techniques you can use to recharge your energy whenever you need to, in just five minutes.

You’ll discover how to:

• Build a protective shield of positive energy so you’re guarded from unwanted energy from other people
• Transform negative emotions and energies and quickly return to inner peace
• Break the cycle of stress with simple, easy-to-follow Qigong routines and relaxing meditations
• Release tension from your chest, neck, and shoulders (where we tend to hold on to anger and depression)
• Calm your mind with guided healing meditations (use these to quickly re-center yourself whenever you catch yourself mentally spinning)
• And much more

About Author:

Lee Holden first discovered the healing power of Qigong and Tai Chi after experiencing injuries that nearly sidelined his varsity soccer career at the University of California, Berkeley.