A 10-day guided challenge combining Tai Chi walking patterns, Qi-cultivating arm shapes, and daily community practice, all rooted in the classic movements and the life force already moving beneath your feet.
There's a sensation that shows up in your legs just a few minutes into a specific kind of walk. A current running up from the ground through your feet, into your calves, like the earth is feeding you as you go.
People across centuries and cultures have felt it, and one lineage turned that feeling into a precise practice.
In Chinese tradition, walking was more than just exercise; it was a method to cultivate and circulate Qi, involving rooting, gathering, and moving. This is the focus of the challenge and the practice you'll learn step by step.
You step outside and take the route you've taken a hundred times, only this time you pay attention.
When you reach the sidewalk, you pause. You feel both feet flat on the ground and let your weight settle low, into your heels, grounded like a tree finding its roots.
Then you start walking, but slower than usual. One foot rolls from heel to toe before the other lifts, and your weight drops fully into the standing leg each time, then rises, then drops again into the next step.
A minute in and the ground starts to feel like it’s rising, inviting your step and meeting your foot halfway.
Your arms begin to move next like antennas picking up signals. You see your neighbor and wave. You don’t care what they think; you look cool.
Palms turn up toward the sky, then down toward the earth, the way a leaf turns over in the wind. For each shape, you pull something from the air, then pull it into your center.
By the fifth minute, your breath has slowed on its own, a few steps in, a few steps out, without you telling it to.
Ten minutes in and Qi is really moving. You feel a tingling and warmth spread out toward your fingers. Down at your feet, each step lands heavier than it did when you started. You notice the tingle in your legs now too, but there's no pain, just life.
By the time you circle back to your door, your shoulders sit lower than when you left. Your whole body hums now.
Ten minutes down a street you've walked a hundred times, and this time you know exactly where to put your weight and where to send your hands.
That's a walk inside the challenge.
This Walk with Qi 10-Day Challenge is built around a simple idea: instead of a Tai Chi course with long sequences to memorize, we offer walking practices that unite Tai Chi and Qi Gong, and 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 path
This is not a full Tai Chi Course. You won’t learn traditional Tai Chi forms and memorize long sequences. All you need to do is show up ready to learn.
The challenge is about learning two easy walking practices and the Qi Gong underneath it.
The most important thing in this course is experiencing the shift you get from the walks. We’ve intentionally made that easy to do in the form of a challenge.
Practice in your living room on a morning you can't get outside, or fold it straight into the walk you're already taking. You’ll also learn a circular walk you can do easily indoors. Either way, the practice doesn't ask you to change your whole day for it.
So if you're wondering if this will feel like a long Tai Chi course with complicated movements, it won't.
It’s made for anyone who wants a simple, practical way to get more Qi from the walks they already take.
Tai Chi Walking takes just 10 minutes a day.
That's it. Just as long as your normal walk, maybe even shorter.
Here's what’s worth knowing before you start: most people find that these 10 minutes become the best part of their day. As they get more comfortable with Tai Chi Walking, they keep going and add another 10 minutes on.
When you spend 20 minutes practicing, arms moving, connecting with nature, the other 23 hours tend to go better. You sleep more deeply, think more clearly, and have more energy at 3 p.m.
People join the challenge thinking the daily practice will be the hard part. By the end of the second day, most of them realize it’s the part they’d protect even if nobody was asking them to do it.
Think of this as half Tai Chi, half Qi Gong. The walk brings the rooted, flowing step of Tai Chi, moving energy through your body. The arm patterns are pure Qi Gong, gathering it in and running it through your meridians.
You don't need to learn a form first to feel it working. Don’t worry about having to walk long distances. What matters is the Qi you build step by step, so you can turn a walk you already take into a practice that’s all about “fitness with awareness,” as Lee calls it.
Lee teaches it the way he teaches everything, simple, grounded, warm, practical. Nothing to memorize before you feel a difference. Just a few movements, and you can pick them up on your first walk and keep them for every walk after.
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 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.
We want to make sure you get what you expect in Tai Chi Walking. You have 30 days from the date you purchase to request a full refund.
It’s a bit of both. This is a Qi Gong approach, using Tai Chi walking principles, that’s focused on helping you actively cultivate and circulate Qi. It's simpler and more accessible than a formal Tai Chi form, by design.
The first routine keeps your hands down at your sides, so it works fine with shoulder issues. A couple of patterns may need to be skipped or scaled back, but they can be modified.
No. You can begin exactly where you are. And if you study Tai Chi and Qi Gong down the road, this becomes the foundation you already have in your body.
This weaves cultivation into something you already do every single day - walking - plus a routine with movements Lee has never taught in any Holden QiGong course before now.
This practice turns the walk you're already taking into a way to cultivate more energy. So you can just fold it into your normal walk without it interfering with your day.
Lee’s direct answer: "You look cool doing it. Everyone gets to see you in the neighborhood."
