Daisy Lee
Dive deeply into the full-length 5-Animal Qigong (Wu Qin Xi) form — and each animal’s corresponding seasons, elements, and organs.
Learn how to embody each animal’s qualities and energy — to cultivate vibrant health, focus, awareness, neutral compassion, and much more.
Have you watched animals move and been inspired by their grace, beauty, and conscious power?
There’s a deeper intelligence at work, which has long been noted by Indigenous traditions, Qigong masters, and other spiritual luminaries throughout history.
When we tap into the graceful power of animals in Qigong, we access a wider field of intelligence and a deeper foundation for health.
In this program with Daisy Lee, founder and principal teacher of Radiant Lotus Qigong, you’ll delve into the origins of the playful, joyful 5-Animal Qigong and experience firsthand why it’s thrived through the centuries.
Animals move skillfully and intentionally through the world, intuitively sensing when they need to focus their energy on something truly important, like when they need to rest.
They also remain vibrant and energetic into old age.
Wisdom teachers have long understood the profound wisdom we can absorb from our counterparts in the animal kingdom, says Daisy.
The animals’ remarkable wisdom and wellbeing inspired China’s renowned master physician, Hua Tuo, to create 5-Animal Qigong, which emulates the movements of the:
- Fierce and focused Tiger
- Quiet, powerful Deer
- Steadfast Bear
- Curious Monkey
- Elegant and wise Crane
5-Animal Qigong was inspired by the animals’ natural, agile movements and easy grace — which stands in stark contrast to how many humans have become quite sedentary and stressed, growing more feeble with age.
This unique and fun Qigong form offers a joyful path to “rewild your senses” and rediscover a more primal and unprocessed experience of your senses as you return to the wisdom of the animals — cultivating vibrant health and wellbeing in the process.
Join Daisy for her 7-module course as she guides you through 5-Animal Qigong in its entirety, just as she learned it from her lineage teacher, Master Wang San Hua, in Bo Zhou, China.
You can access this timeless practice whenever you need to self-regulate, release stress, and return to balance and harmony. 5-Animal Qigong promotes flexibility, strength, balance, and overall physical wellbeing. Its intentional movements and focused breathing create a deep mind-body connection for relaxation and stress reduction.
With each new animal movement — including hand forms and stance work — you’ll also explore its corresponding element, season, and organ, helping you enhance the flow of Qi (vital life-force energy) throughout the body.
Daisy, who is the 59th-generation lineage holder of 5-Animal Qigong, will be your guide as you explore how this life-enriching form connects you with the energy of the animals to retrieve the treasures of the past — a refreshingly grounded, beautifully centered, and unencumbered way of engaging with life.
In this 7-module video course, you’ll:
- Explore techniques and movement practices to embody the inner and outer qualities of the Tiger, Deer, Bear, Monkey, and Crane to strengthen your body and brain while balancing your emotions
- Build both inner and outer qualities we’ve learned from the animals — including action and restorative rest, strength and flexibility, and a clear and vibrant mind
- Cultivate the animals’ natural practices into your daily life, including intuition, rest, action, movement, and natural nutrition
- Embody the Tiger’s energy to build courage, patience, and work-life balance
- Take on the Deer’s energy to lessen your anxiety while bringing new energy to your spine, kidneys, and adrenals
- Emulate the Bear to conserve your energy while you prepare for the future
- Laugh at life and at yourself, just as the Monkey does
- Understand life from a higher, more balanced perspective as you take on the Crane’s energy
- Learn hand forms and stance work for the Qigong movements inspired by each animal
- Explore each animal’s corresponding element, season, and organ
Daisy is a celebrated Qigong teacher and mentor across diverse student populations spanning all genders and ages — from Olympic athletes and martial artists to those with PTSD and serious health conditions.
With nearly 30 years of teaching experience — through leading workshops and her work in prominent medical institutions such as Johns Hopkins Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, and Women’s College Hospital — Daisy has supported the health and wellbeing of thousands of students worldwide.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Daisy will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully awaken joy, health, and vibrancy through the timeless wisdom of the animals.
This course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with Daisy. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to learn the full-length 5-Animal Qigong (Wu Qin Xi) form, featuring the Tiger, Deer, Bear, Monkey, and Crane — and their corresponding seasons, elements, and organs.
Module 1 Learning From the Animals to Cultivate Increased Focus & Alertness
Daisy will introduce you to 5-Animal Qigong(Wu Qin Xi) , anancient Qigong form that’s approximately 1,800 years old — one of the classic Qigong forms made famous by China’s renowned master physician Hua Tuo.
In this vibrant and joyful opening session, Daisy will share the principles and practices that make this form a favorite, from the youngest to the most sagely practitioner.
She’ll guide you to begin laying the foundation to practice the complete set of all five animals by the end of this program.
In this first module, you’ll explore:
- An overview of the 5 animals and how each animal relates to Traditional Chinese Medicine principles
- Each animal’s key characteristics and how they can guide us in becoming healthier and more vibrant
- The unique hand forms and the corresponding stance work for each animal
- How the animals teach us to cultivate focus and alertness while retaining inner calm and stability
- Techniques to increase strength and resilience in both body and mind
Module 2 Embody the Energy of the Tiger
With its supple spine and powerful, agile legs that help it to spring into action with confidence and grace, the Tiger is one of the masters of the jungle — yet it’s also wise enough to know when it needs rest, relaxation, and play.
When a Tiger is focused on a goal, it gets a glint in its eyes and prepares for what’s ahead with patience and decisive action.
Able to maintain peace of mind and clarity of vision, the Tiger is undisturbed by emotions like anger or fear, making it both a formidable adversary and a powerful leader.
In this session, you’ll learn:
- The Tiger form, including hand and stance work
- The associated element, season, and organ that the Tiger represents in Chinese cosmology — fire, summer, and the heart
- How to balance work and play like a wise Tiger
- When you need clarity and ferocity to survive or thrive
Module 3 Take on the Energy of the Deer to Diminish Anxiety
Observing from behind the trees, the Deer’s quiet demeanor belies its remarkable power and speed.
Don’t underestimate the Deer’s shy and gentle countenance! Like the water element it represents, it can either move through the world like a life-giving stream — or like a rushing river breaking through the banks when speed, power, and agility are required.
The Deer’s movements help bring energy to the spine while regenerating the kidneys and adrenals.
In this module, you’ll:
- Practice the Deer Qigong form to boost your physical, mental, and emotional health
- Learn the element, season, and organ that the Deer represents
- Discover how to listen and observe with deeper awareness, like the Deer
- Understand how your self-limiting thoughts hurt you — and follow the Deer’s lead to experience freedom from fear and anxiety
- Allow the Deer to show you a gentle way of being that leaves the faintest footprint on the earth
Module 4 Follow in the Footsteps of the Bear
You’ll learn to embody the steadfast, stable energy of the Bear.
It lumbers leisurely through the forest floor, foraging for berries and sweets, yet makes it clear that it will face conflict head-on when it needs to.
The Bear is in the middle of the five animals as it represents stability and groundedness, yet it will rise up to become larger than life to meet threats and danger.
In this session, you’ll embody the energy of the Bear as you explore:
- The Bear Qigong form to draw stability and power from the Earth
- The element, season, and organ represented by the Bear
- How the Bear prefers to avoid conflict, but when it must engage, it will stand up and fight
- How the Bear knows how to conserve what it needs, whether it’s energy or resources — showing you how to prepare for the future without squandering valuable life force on unimportant things
Module 5 Become Curious & Playful as You Laugh at Life Alongside the Monkey
The Monkey is curious, playful, and light-hearted, grasping at the new and letting go of the old.
The inquisitive Monkey is always on the move — observing, thinking, scratching its head, underarm, or back, and swinging from tree to tree, often getting into mischief.
When you play like a Monkey, you’re sure to discover new ways of looking at the world. The Monkey is a bringer of light and humor, representing the joys of summer.
However, as Daisy will explain, even monkeys need to rest or else they’ll burn up their seemingly inexhaustible energy — as we might too!
In this module, you’ll take on the energy of the Monkey as you:
- Learn the Monkey Qigong form, full of quick, mindful movements that inspire light and laughter
- Discover the element, season, and organ represented by the Monkey
- Explore how the Monkey is endowed with a brilliant mind and infinite curiosity, yet its greatest gift is its heart and humor
- Perfect the art of Iaughing at yourself and with the world
- Calm your “monkey mind” so you can derive more from life
Module 6 Fly Above Life’s Stresses
The Crane pushes off from the solidity of the earth, then lifts up and flies above and beyond the mundane.
Emulating the Crane improves the range of motion and flexibility of the shoulders, and imbues you with greater strength, balance, and poise.
With its elegant movements that open the heart and lungs, this worldly traveler sees life from a higher perspective.
In this session, you’ll embody the Crane’s energy as you:
- Practice the Crane Qigong form to create litheness, grace, and calm in your body
- Discover the element, season, and organ represented by the Crane
- Appreciate how the elegant Crane form is an antidote for overcoming sadness and melancholy
- Understand how the Crane’s gift of flight allows it to stand apart from the chaos and turmoil below, teaching us to rise above pettiness
- Learn how to shake off stress like a Crane and return to harmonious balance
- Explore how sometimes it’s okay to have your head in the clouds if you know what direction you’re headed in (Daisy will explain how to apply this to your daily life)
Module 7 Practice Hua Tuo’s Full-Length 5-Animal Qigong Form
As this course comes to a close, you’ll reflect on what you’ve learned: when you emulate animals in form and character, you learn that we humans can also have the same power and gentleness, agility and strength, resilience and resourcefulness, playfulness, and focus as these dynamic teachers.
As human animals, we can co-exist and support each other in living an abundant life — giving and taking in balance, and offering our unique gifts back to the wheel of life.
No one animal is lesser or greater than the other, as each has its special gifts. This classic form can be just the beginning of your personal connection to the more-than-human world.
In this closing module, Daisy will guide you to:
- Review and practice the full 5-Animal Qigong form
- Engage in a group discussion of the human animal — are we superior or inferior to other animals? Are we evolving or devolving?
- Reflect on what the animal frolics have taught you — perhaps you’re feeling more observant and discerning, you’ve started listening more deeply, you keep your ears and eyes more open to truth, or you act with courage and awareness when you’re faced with conflict or stress
- Recognize that when you embody the wisdom of the Tiger, Deer, Bear, Monkey, and Crane, you can better support all of life in our interconnected Universe
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Daisy’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Animal Spirits in Qigong
Video Dialogue With Daisy Lee and Puma Fredy Quispe Singona
In this 33-minute video conversation, Daisy and Puma discuss the essence of animal spirits used in different traditions. In the living culture of these times, you can still learn, connect, and benefit from the animals, who are the children of Pachamama (Mother Earth or Gaia). Puma and Daisy will also explore the similarities and differences between the Andean and Qigong lineages.
Register by March 16 to claim this bonus before it expires.
Exploring the Internal Martial Arts
Video Dialogue With Daisy Lee, Richard Sims, and Jamee Culbertson
In this 54-minute session from the Somatic Movement Summit, Richard Sims, Jamee Culbertson, and Daisy each share their experience of having a longstanding personal practice in their respective disciplines of Aikido, Tai Chi, and Qigong. They will discuss how somatic awareness is inherent in internal martial art styles, and how this awareness influences all of life. You’ll also explore the value of a regular practice, how cultivating your sensory-motor awareness stimulates transformation and growth, and how to balance discipline and freedom in a personal practice.
Register by March 28 to claim this bonus before it expires.
How Desire & Eros Are Essential to Living an Optimized, Vibrant & Fulfilling Life
Video Dialogue With Daisy Lee and Dr. Saida Desilets
In this 49-minute session from the Qigong Global Summit, Dr. Saida Desilets talks with Daisy about her experience in South Africa. She focuses on rewilding participants and helping them access their intuition — and the alert awareness necessary when one is amongst wild animals. Saida shares her perspective as a thought leader, speaker, and “succulence revolutionary” on the growing edge of researching how women can use their minds, bodies, and spirits to create richer lives through their sensual selves.
Qigong to Renew & Rejuvenate Whole-Body Health
Video Teaching From Daisy Lee
In this 56-minute video teaching, Daisy will guide you to focus on the bigger picture as you reconnect with the larger forces beyond your body. You’ll explore the foundations of Zang Fu Gong, how it relates to your internal organs, and the many ways this style of Qigong can improve your body’s ability to detoxify, relax, and regenerate — so your immune system can function at its best. As you’ll discover, you can receive support from the Earth, the Cosmos, and Nature. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the resources all around you.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Daisy Lee
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from Daisy Lee. founder and principal teacher of Radiant Lotus Qigong — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a streaming video option and will guide you to awakening joy, health, and vibrancy through 5-Animal Qigong.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, 5-Animal Qigong
We feel honored that Daisy Lee has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online course. This is a unique opportunity to learn from the founder and principal teacher of Radiant Lotus Qigong, whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning how to embody animals’ qualities and energy to cultivate vibrant health, focus, awareness, neutral compassion, and much more, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
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If you don’t absolutely LOVE 5-Animal Qigong — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form 14 days from your date of purchase and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
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About Daisy Lee
Daisy Lee, the founder and principal teacher of Radiant Lotus Qigong, has lectured extensively on Qigong as an empowering self-care practice in schools, hospitals, women’s organizations and numerous online summits.
She has studied and taught Qigong internationally for 30 years, including as a keynote speaker and workshop leader at the National Qigong Association, Kripalu Center, Omega Institute, and other venues. Her presentations at Johns Hopkins, Mount Sinai, and Women’s College hospitals have encouraged a collaborative approach to healing and healthcare between patients, caregivers, nurses, and doctors.
Known for her signature program, Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong (RLWQ), Daisy was honored with the “Qigong Master of the Year” award in 2020 by the World Qigong Congress in recognition of her impact on women’s health and healing. Due to student enthusiasm, she offered the first RLWQ online certification in 2023 so that women instructors from around the world could teach this female-focused program in their country’s language.
Daisy also teaches classic systems of Qigong such as 8 Brocades, Wuji Hundun Qigong, Zang Fu Gong, and 5 Animal Qigong, offering students a diversity of styles to evolve their practice as practitioners and instructors. She is the 59th-generation lineage holder of the original 5 Animal Qigong from Bo Zhou, China that has been passed down from the famous Chinese physician, Hua Tuo.
Daisy recently received the “Humanitarian of the Year” award from the 23rd World Congress on Integrative Health: Healing with Peace. She lives on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico with her partner and collaborator, Mark Roule. Together they are building a boutique retreat center where they will hold in-person Qigong programs.
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