“If you could only take one course in your life, this is the one.” ~Lee
Sign Up for the Waitlist NowOne quiet spring morning, two women sat on a sunlit bench at a lakeside retreat in Oregon. Tea in hand, they breathed the pine-scented air and watched dragonflies skim the water.
They had much in common.
Both mothers, seasoned Qi Gong practitioners, respected in their communities. Both came to the retreat to restore, reflect, and reconnect.
But as the weekend unfolded, their inner worlds told different stories.
One felt stuck. Her movements were precise, her breath steady—but she kept hitting the same walls: emotional swings, body tension, fatigue that rest couldn’t fix.
The other moved with a quiet radiance. Her practice felt effortless—like water finding its way. She smiled easily. She spoke less, but when she did, it carried weight. She seemed… rooted. Vital. Free.
The difference?
They both practiced Qi Gong... but only one of them had integrated the ancient wisdom of the Five Elements into her practice.
This ancient wisdom isn’t just another technique; it’s a map of your internal world. It shows where your energy gets blocked, why patterns repeat, and how to rebalance from the inside out.
There's a rhythm your body remembers, but your mind hasn’t fully decoded…
You sense it in the stillness between breaths. In the way your energy stirs when you move just right. In those rare, luminous moments when everything just… clicks.
That deeper current is real; the trick is learning to relax into it at will. That's what the Five Elements gives you.
More than a theory, more than a philosophy, the Five Elements are the master key that unlocks the true power of your Qi Gong practice.
They reveal the emotional and energetic blueprint behind every movement.
They show you how your organs, your thoughts, and seasons of life are all connected.
They turn your practice from a routine into a living, breathing relationship with nature itself.
When you understand the Five Elements, Qi Gong becomes more than self-care.
It becomes self-discovery. Self-healing. And, for many, a return to wholeness.
The Five Elements Online Course is the foundation of everything Lee teaches.
You’ll discover the blueprint behind every Qi Gong movement, breath, and flow you’ve ever done.
Suddenly, all those familiar routines click into place. You understand not just how they work, but why they work. Like a puzzle, all of the pieces fit together perfectly.
You understand why certain practices make you feel lighter, calmer, more alive. You begin to see your energy, emotions, and even life’s seasons through a new lens.
Essentially, with a fundamental understanding of the Five Elements, Qi Gong stops being something you follow… and becomes something you live.
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In this on-demand course, Lee Holden guides you through a deeply transformative journey using the Five Elements...
To deepen your practice, awaken your energy, and expand your physical and emotional resilience.
You’ll explore advanced insights and energetic patterns that awaken healing, balance your emotional terrain, and reveal how nature is already moving through you.
Discover how to sense and guide Qi through your organs and meridians, restoring balance across your entire body.
Through the wisdom of the Five Elements, you’ll begin to understand how nature’s rhythms shape your health, emotions, and life experience.
So when life feels turbulent and chaotic, you can return to center and ground yourself with ease.
You’ll explore how each element expresses through emotional and energetic patterns—and how to shift fear into excitement, anger into clarity, grief into strength, worry into stability, and more.
Through Qi Gong flows, healing sounds, acupressure, and meditations, you’ll learn to work with the specific energy of each element and organ system.
This helps you release tension, balance your energy, and activate your body’s innate healing process... from the inside out.
Learn how each movement, stretch, healing sound, and meditation creates precise shifts in your energy field...
Refining your sensitivity and deepening your experience of each and every flow.
Discover new levels to your practice you never even knew existed, often resulting in profound and lifelong healings.
Using the Five Elements as your guide, you’ll learn to clear what no longer serves you, gently detoxifying organs, softening old patterns, and allowing fresh Qi to circulate with ease and vitality.
Your body is a lot like your house. If it’s cluttered, your energy will be stagnant and stale.
Clear what no longer serves you, gently detoxifying organs, softening old patterns, and allowing fresh Qi to circulate with ease and vitality.
Get empowered to listen to your body with nuance, care for your energy with skill, and become the wise steward of your internal landscape.
The 40-Hour Five Elements Online Course. This includes trainings, lectures, discussions, Qi Gong routines, meditations, breathwork, acupressure points, and more
Lifetime access. Get lifetime access to all course content
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Lee is an internationally known master Qi Gong instructor and an expert in making ancient wisdom applicable to modern life. He is also a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and successful author. He has been featured on American Public Television and on select PBS stations throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Through his DVDs, Public Broadcasting specials, classes, workshops, courses, and teacher certification program, Lee has helped tens of thousands of students discover Qi Gong, heal from injury and disease, slow their aging process, maximize their energy, and feel better than they ever have before.
“The Five Elements have given me a greater understanding of the people around me and improved my ability to better manage situations and relationships. It has also taught me more about the interrelatedness of the natural world and our place in it. I feel more connected than I ever have before with who I am and my place in the world. My daily interactions are based on a much greater level of empathy and understanding.”
"I would like to express my deep gratitude that 'Lee Qi ' has brought into my life. I had been through severe anxiety and depression because of my life situations. I've been doing two hours of Qi gong since September almost every day and here's my shift. I feel good in my mind, the negative thoughts are easily transforming to compost and I'm sleeping so deep. I have more energy. I'm eating happily. Please accept my deepest gratitude. Thank you for this huge transformation with such ease and comfort in just four months."
"Lee’s workshop was deeply moving. It felt as if so much gentle, shifting, internal work was going on; channels opening, releasing and healing movement happening. This feeling of being transported and rooted at the same time, all parts moving in graceful synchronicity, with such a deep feeling of well-being and connectedness to our inner self, to Lee, and to all who participated, seemed to be our individual and collective experience."
"I made a choice 10 years ago to take an energy healing class. Before that I had been deeply depressed, suicidal, addicted to Ativan and struggling to find help. The therapeutic model was not working for me and was keeping me in a state of PTSD and trauma. It took a lot of work for me to go out of the house and be around people.
Holden Qi Gong, Lee and all of the work you are doing is a huge part of this major healing that I am experiencing right now.
My heart is so full of gratitude for you all, for the wonderful work you are doing to share these amazing teachings with the world. Please know you are making a huge difference in so many lives especially during these times of fear and unrest."
Lee is a master teacher and I have learned so much from all, I especially love when he goes in depth in a workshop or course.
"Ten minutes after the class my knee and foot started throbbing with chi energy. It seemed to be melting tension after about 5 minutes the intensity stopped and all the years of pain washed away. I could feel the layers go like peeling of layers of rust. This was such an amazing spiritual experience. I realized there is so much love out there so please thank Lee for showing it to me. My life changed after that session. I realized so many things, one being I’m not in control of anything unless I listen to the Universe."
Whether you're brand new to Qi Gong or you've been practicing for a while, this course was designed to meet you where you are. It’s perfect for beginner and intermediate students who are looking to understand the deeper "how and why" behind Qi Gong. If you've studied the Five Elements extensively before, this will be a powerful review… but will likely cover familiar topics and routines.
The Five Elements are the foundation for everything else in Qi Gong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. This course goes deep into the “why” and “how” behind the practice. You’ll walk away with a true framework for understanding energy, healing, and seasonal balance that you’ll carry into every future course or routine you explore with Lee.
No, there are no prerequisites for this course. However, you'll get the most out of it if you have some familiarity with Qi Gong, movement practices like yoga, or mindfulness practices like meditation.
Not at all. The movements in this course are gentle and adaptable. Many students practice while seated or modify routines to suit their bodies. Qi Gong is designed to meet you exactly where you are physically, emotionally, and energetically.
Yes! While Lee teaches the movements standing, most exercises can be modified to be done seated. Just listen to your body, adjust as needed, and you’ll still get the energetic benefits of the practice.
Yes. When this course is available for purchase, you'll receive the Holden QiGong 30-Day Risk-Free Trial with your purchase. This means you can try the course for 30 days from the date of purchase, and if you’re not completely satisfied, you can request a full refund.
The Five Elements is the first 8 weeks of the 16-week Tier 1 Certification curriculum. It’s a required course that gives you 40 of the 200 hours you need for certification, and it sets a powerful foundation for everything that follows.
