Lee Holden – The Shift Network – 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 Five 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 to transform 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 the “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 week’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” to release stress and increase energy
• The “Transform Stress Into Vitality Qigong” workout
• A guided practice of 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 more than 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 Seven 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 for yourself or for others.

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
• A guided practice on how Principle 4 (Stretch) relates to the Wood element

In this module, you’ll finish your dive into the Seven 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.

This week, 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
• A guided practice to 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 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, creativity, workouts, and 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 from the “Ice to Water, Water to Steam” meditation again and again through a guided practice

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
• Be guided in an integration meditation to add structure to your body’s healing capacity