Builds On Tier 1 Certification – you need an additional 300 hours of training to become an Advanced Teacher.
Tao Yin Online Course (40 hours)
Choose from Taoist Inner Alchemy – Part 1: Pearl of Consciousness (40 hours) or Taoist Inner Alchemy – Part 2: Kan & Li (40 hours).
Advanced Teacher Training Week – attend a week-long Advanced Teacher Training in person. (40 hours)
100 Hours of Teaching – documented hours teaching as a Certified Holden QiGong Teacher. (100 hours)
Personal Practice & Additional Training: using the Holden QiGong programs of your choice, including: Video Class Subscription (up to 40 hours), as well as Live or Evergreen Online Courses and workshops led by Master Lee Holden (80+ hours total)
Flowing Stretch Sequences: These have a profoundly relaxing “unlocking” effect on the body, especially the lower back.
Pressure Point Self-Massage: Learning to massage the light switches of the body brings you healing, relaxation, and more energy.
Breathing Exercises: We explore the Taoist ways of breathing, and work this into Qi Gong practices to build power.
Mental Intent: A big part of Tao Yin is manifestation: focusing clearly on what you are working toward and setting intentions.
Postures of Power: You’ll use these standing postures to build and store Qi in the lower Tan Tien, the seat of the Pearl of Consciousness, and circulate it through the meridians.
Inner Alchemy Meditation: You will build this Pearl of Consciousness and pack it with Qi, as you begin to sense how you’re independent of the physical aspect of your being.
Fusion of the Five Elements meditation: Discover how you can bring Qi in from all elements of the environment, and pull this into your Tan Tien for more grounding and inner strength.
Taoist Shamanism: Discovering the Taoists’ relationship with nature, life, and death will help bring you into harmonious relations with the world around us.
Intermediate Qi Gong Flows: Taking another level of detail in the principles of flow and their application in flowing movements, so you can fine-tune your practice.
Fire and Water Meditation: You'll learn to guide the loving energy of the heart downward and the vital energy of the lower body upward, bringing these two elemental forces together in the middle to create the alchemical elixir.
The Microcosmic Orbit: You will deepen your experience of this foundational energy pathway, using it as the inner roadmap for circulating and refining the elixir throughout the body.
The Three Treasures: Discover how Jing, Qi, and Shen are refined and transformed through the Kan & Li practice, taking your relationship with these energies to a deeper level of inner alchemy.
The Three Tan Tiens: Explore how each energy center plays a role in the transformation of fire and water, and how working with all three opens the door to greater wholeness and healing.
The Pineal Gland and Higher Consciousness: Understanding the Taoists' relationship with this mysterious gland will help you access deeper states of awareness and inner stillness in your practice.
Advanced Qi Gong Flows: Building on the principles of flow you already know, you will refine your movement practice to support and integrate the inner alchemical work of Kan & Li.
Enhance your personal Qi Gong practice: Go deeper in The Five Elements and The Three Treasures practice and theory.
Build your Qi Gong business: Discover how your passion for practicing Qi Gong can turn into a viable business.
Learn how to teach to various groups: Discover how to teach at health and fitness clubs, yoga centers, corporations, host your own workshops and teach students one on one.
Break-out sessions with specific topics: You’ll have the opportunity for mastermind sessions and small group sessions on specific topics.
Get that transmission from Lee: Immerse yourself in the energy of the retreat for transformational learning.
Learn from experts in the field: Including Leta Jusilla, Tony Galin, John Platt, Ben Cox and Karen Holden.
Break through internal limitations: We all have internal limitations and upper limits in our beliefs, our minds as well as old programming. Break through internal limiting factors that hold you back from reaching your potential.
Informational learning: get all of your questions answered
This training is ONLY open to Tier 1 Certified teachers. To sign up for Tier 2, please reach out to [email protected].
Use Your Title: you have the right to call yourself a “Certified Advanced Holden QiGong Teacher” verbally, in your teaching, and in print or online, including marketing and other materials.
Teach More Movements and Meditations: you have the right to begin teaching a wider array of Holden QiGong techniques and methods. Start to develop your own style by focusing on what interests you the most.
Designation on HoldenQiGong.com: we’ll prominently mark your listing on our website as an Advanced teacher.
Maintaining Your Certification: you are responsible for continuing your training by adding at least 20 hours of Live/Online Training every two years. Eligible training includes previously recorded, live, and cohort versions of Holden QiGong workshops, online courses, in-person retreats, or in-person teacher training events. If you maintain an active Video Class Subscription for at least one of those two years, you may count 10 hours towards your total of 20 hours. Only workshops and courses purchased after your certification can be counted. The Holden QiGong Healing Series routines, Learning Series routines, or Lee’s teachings at non-Holden QiGong events cannot be used towards your maintenance hours.
Tier 2 Teacher Trainees can begin logging their personal practice hours as soon as they decide that they are continuing their teaching journey in Holden QiGong and have enrolled in either of the Tier 2 training requirements: Tao Yin or Taoist Inner Alchemy: Pearl of Consciousness.
Personal Practice for Tier 2 includes practicing along with Lee’s instruction in the Holden QiGong programs of your choice including workshop and online courses such as Tao Yin, Buddha Palm, Iron Shirt, Five Animal Frolics, Inner Alchemy: Pearl of Consciousness, and/or Video Class Subscription (up to 40 hours). Lectures, Q&As, and Masterclasses can not count toward Personal Practice (80+ hours)
Tier 2 Practice Teaching consists of 100 hours of teaching Holden QiGong-style classes learned in Tier 1 training while also applying the new movements and meditations of your Tier 2 training.
Yes. Tier 1 Certified Holden QiGong Instructors can charge for teaching classes.
Logging your Practice Teaching hours can begin after you have enrolled and begun your Tier 2 training. Lee and the Holden QiGong team encourage you to dive into the more advanced practices of Tier 2 along with your Tier 1 material to help understand and assimilate the practices so that you can teach with confidence.
No, It is not required to meet with a Holden QiGong coach to be certified.
No. At this time the masterclass and monthly Q&As with Lee include all Tier 1 and Tier 2 teacher trainees combined so that all levels are invited to ask questions directly to Lee for the benefit of all.
Yes, Tao Yin and/or Taoist Internal Alchemy can count towards your 20 hours of maintenance to retain your Holden QiGong Certification.
Yes, Please use the same offered templates to log both your Tier 2 Practice Teaching and Tier 2 Personal Practice Hours. All we ask is that the new template is specifically designated towards Tier 2 logs with it clearly labeled as “Tier 2 Personal Practice Log” and “Tier 2 Practice Teaching Log.” Both Logs should include dates, description of classes, length of practice, and for the Practice Teaching Log, remember to include who you practice taught, “Who were your students?”
No, unlike Tier 1, there are no quizzes administered at this time.
No, unlike Tier 1, a final exam is not administered at this time.
No, submission of a demo video is not required to be Tier 2 certified at this time.
You’ll join Lee in person along with your fellow classmates for the Advanced Teacher Training Week.
We do not offer scholarships or discounts, but do offer payment plans.
Tier 2 is self-paced and trainees are invited to go at their own pace to fully embody the Tier 2 material as well as work the training into lifestyles in an individualistic manner.
Similar to the Tier 1 certification maintenance, you are responsible for continuing your training by adding at least 20 hours of Live/Online Training every two years. Eligible training includes previously recorded, live, and cohort versions of Holden QiGong workshops, online courses, in-person retreats, or in-person teacher training events. If you maintain an active Video Class Subscription for at least one of those two years, you may count 10 hours towards your total of 20 hours. Only workshops and courses purchased after your certification can be counted. The Holden QiGong Healing Series routines, Learning Series routines, or Lee’s teachings at non-Holden QiGong events cannot be used towards your maintenance hours.
No, You do not need to complete Tier 2 training. The decision to progress to Tier 2 is completely optional.
Unlike the Teacher Certification Program where both the Five Elements and Three Treasures online courses are housed inside one course, the tier 2 courses are stand-alone courses. When you purchase the course it will appear in your student account separately with its own individual curriculum and modules of study and practice.
