Protect Your Energy with Golden Shield Qigong – Free Class with Lee Holden
It can be difficult to stay centered when other people’s stress, anxiety, and emotional intensity seem to follow you long after an interaction ends. Even with meditation or Qigong as part of your life, challenging relationships, stressful environments, and the constant noise of the world can leave you feeling depleted or unsettled.
Lee Holden offers a different way to approach this challenge through Golden Shield Qigong, an ancient practice rooted in the Shaolin martial arts tradition. The focus is not on shutting yourself off from others, but on cultivating stronger protective Qi so you can remain grounded, clear, and compassionate without absorbing everything around you.
You’ll explore the idea of emotional immunity and learn how protective Wei Qi can support greater energetic clarity and resilience. Lee will guide you through a complete sequence that includes clearing stagnant energy, activating the flow of Qi, and using movement to strengthen your own Golden Shield from the inside out.
You’ll also learn practical acupressure techniques and explore how stress, anxiety, and worry can be met through breath, movement, and energetic awareness. The session offers a hands-on introduction to practices you can use when you want to return to your own center.
Why Attend “Protect Your Energy With Golden Shield Qigong”
Stress does not always remain confined to the person experiencing it. When you are sensitive to the moods and energy around you, difficult conversations, crowded environments, family dynamics, or even the news can make it harder to maintain your own sense of balance.
Golden Shield Qigong approaches this challenge through the cultivation of protective Wei Qi. Lee Holden draws on a practice with roots in the Shaolin martial arts tradition and adapts its principles to modern concerns such as energetic clarity, emotional boundaries, and remaining centered without closing yourself off from the world.
Lee’s background in Qigong, Tai Chi, meditation, acupuncture, herbalism, and Traditional Chinese Medicine gives him a broad foundation for teaching these practices in an accessible, practical way. Rather than relying only on ideas about protection, the session gives you an opportunity to work directly with breath, movement, acupressure, and the circulation of Qi.
What You’ll Learn
We’ll begin with the idea of emotional immunity, so you can explore how energetic protection relates to the stress and emotional intensity you encounter in everyday life. You’ll also learn about protective Wei Qi and how Lee connects it with greater stability, vitality, and resilience.
You’ll then move through Lee’s complete Golden Shield Qigong sequence, which includes a purging exercise to release accumulated tension, two energetic activations to encourage your Qi to circulate, and flowing movements for building your protective shield. Along the way, the emphasis stays on remaining open-hearted while becoming less vulnerable to feeling emotionally depleted by what is happening around you.
From there, Lee will introduce key acupressure points for emotional protection, so you have practical techniques for returning to center when you feel overwhelmed or energetically drained. The session also explores how Qigong works with emotional energy, connecting stress with vitality, anxiety with peace, and worry with presence.
- How protective Wei Qi relates to staying grounded without absorbing the stress and anxiety around you
- What Lee means by strengthening your emotional immune system through energetic practice
- A purging exercise for releasing accumulated tension and stagnant energy
- Two activations for encouraging your Qi to circulate more freely
- Two flowing movements used to build and strengthen your Golden Shield
- The three essential types of Qi Lee will discuss: breath, food, and protective Qi
- How emotional energy can be approached through Qigong practice rather than simply carried with you
- Key acupressure points you can use when you want to restore balance and return to center
- How to cultivate stronger energetic boundaries while remaining compassionate and engaged with others
Who This Is For
This event may be especially relevant if you often feel affected by the stress, anxiety, or negativity of people around you. It can also speak to those who practice meditation, Qigong, or other forms of inner work yet still find it difficult to stay centered in challenging relationships or emotionally intense environments.
The session is also relevant for people interested in energetic boundaries, Wei Qi, acupressure, breathwork, and movement-based practices. Lee guides participants through the Golden Shield sequence directly, while experienced Qigong practitioners can explore how these protective principles apply to modern emotional and energetic challenges.
- People who often feel emotionally drained after difficult interactions
- Those who want to stay compassionate without absorbing other people’s stress
- Meditators who find it challenging to maintain their center in daily life
- Qigong practitioners interested in strengthening protective Wei Qi
- People curious about energetic boundaries and emotional resilience
- Those interested in breath, movement, acupressure, and traditional Chinese energy practices
About Lee Holden
Lee Holden is an internationally known instructor of Qigong, Tai Chi, and meditation. He first became deeply interested in these practices after injuries he experienced as a college soccer player, when Qigong and Tai Chi became part of his recovery and led him to make their study a priority.
He is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and author of 7 Minutes of Magic. His Qigong programs have also appeared on American Public Television and more than 105 PBS stations across the United States and Canada.
Lee has worked with Grandmaster Mantak Chia and has brought his approach to stress management into corporate settings, including work with companies such as Apple, Google, and Cisco. He has also served as a wellness consultant for Hollywood film productions.
Lee is a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a graduate of Five Branches Institute of Acupuncture in Santa Cruz, California, and a UC Berkeley graduate with a degree in psychology. His teaching style brings traditional Qigong principles into practical forms that people can work with in everyday life.
Endorsements
“This course has calmed me down considerably and taken my anxiety away. I was always stressed out, and it has brought down the gauge considerably to no anxiety at all. So amazing.”
“I enrolled in Lee Holden’s workshop specifically to improve my breathing. Not only did my breathing improve, but the Qigong exercises improved my flexibility too!”
“During this course, I’ve developed my sensitivity to feel my own energy so strongly for the first time in my life! Honestly, I am amazed about all the different sensations within my body. Thanks to our teachers, Lee and David, I did feel I have the actual ability to unlock hidden potential from inside through understanding their wisdom and practicing the various exercises — with results I couldn’t even have imagined myself… so fast and direct! We are powerful beings. This I now not only know but truly experience also.”
“Lee Holden has a wonderful spirit, and he’s a great teacher. He shares his wisdom and knowledge with love and enthusiasm. Lee did a fantastic job, and I found the course sessions to be highly informative. I especially loved the Qigong and breathing exercises. I love that the sessions were recorded so that I can revisit them and do all of the practices again and again. I would definitely recommend this course to a friend.”
“Lee does great work. I’m happy to work with him every chance I get. I recommend him highly.”
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- Nov 17 2026
- 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Nov 17 2026
- Time: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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