Tai Chi Walking Course

Tai Chi Walking has become one of the biggest wellness trends of the year. It's filled feeds with millions of slow, deliberate steps across parks and living rooms. While we love to see presence become popular, and the health benefits of Tai Chi Walking are well documented, many of these of trends present Tai Chi Walking as a set of calisthenics and miss the core meaning of Tai Chi Walking.

Tai Chi Walking: Holden QiGong Style

First and foremost, Tai Chi Walking is an energy cultivation practice.

You're not just getting exercise, you're gathering Qi - life force energy. And when you cultivate Qi, you're not only feeding your physical body, you're feeding your mind, your spirit, and your connection to the world around you.

The Tai Chi Walking 10-Day Challenge is built around a simple idea: instead of this being a Tai Chi course with long sequences to memorize, we give you walking practices that unite Tai Chi and Qi Gong, that you can do anywhere.

The walk is easy, and it’s broken down into the Tai Chi layer and the Qi Gong layer.

The Tai Chi layer:

• A rooted walking pattern, the weight shift from heel to toe that grounds you with every step
• Foundational arm movements that move Qi as you walk, learned in a single session, nothing to rehearse beforehand

The Qi Gong layer:

• The Five Elements set, the familiar Tai Chi form adapted into a walking pattern
• A brand new routine, hand positions Lee has never taught in any course before this one
• Guided audio walks, Lee's voice in your ear while you're actually out on the pavement

There’s nothing to memorize before the challenge starts, so all you need to do is show up ready to learn.

Practice in your living room on a morning you can't get outside, or fold it straight into the walk you're already taking. Either way, the practice doesn't ask you to change your whole day for it.

Everything you need for the challenge lives in one place. You’ll have access to walking video routines when you want to watch Lee do the movement, and guided audio walks when you're already out the door and just need his voice pacing you through it.

Why we’re doing a 10 day “challenge”

When you do something for a solid week or ten days, it settles into your body and it much more likely to become a habit.

You'll walk these ten days alongside a whole community taking the challenge with you. You'll share what you're noticing, the buzz in your hands after a walk, the trail that suddenly looked different, the morning you almost skipped and were glad you didn't. You'll see what everyone else is discovering, ask your questions, and get a nudge of encouragement on the days it's hard to get out the door.

Consistency is the one thing most people struggle with, and it turns out the simplest way to keep showing up is to show up with other people.

As Lee puts it, a group walk is more than a walk. So give it ten days, with a community walking beside you, and see how different your walks, and your days, feel by the time you reach the end.

And everything you need to actually do it:

• A live three-hour Sunday session to kick the whole thing off
• An in-home routine with an aerobic feel, for days you can't get outside or as a warm-up before you head out
• Downloadable audio walks in Lee's voice, so you can put your headphones on and follow along with no screen. You can even hear his footsteps falling beside yours.
• Lifetime, evergreen access, so you can return anytime, practice a single movement, or walk the whole sequence whenever you like

This could be for you if:

• You want more energy, and you're tired of ending your walks as drained as you started
• You already walk or hike and want that time to give you more back
• You've seen the Tai Chi Walking trend and want a version with the energy cultivation at the forefront
• You want the calm of meditation and the benefits of exercise without carving out separate time for each
• You want to slow down, get present, and reconnect with nature in a world built to speed you up
• You want to keep your body strong and steady, with better balance, as you get older