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title: Ba Duan Jin. Supporting the sky with both hands.
teacher: Peter Salt-Berrymen
runtime: 2 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/ba-duan-jin-supporting-the-sky-with-both-hands-DpFJbQJMSQ
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Ba Duan Jin. Supporting the sky with both hands.

2 min with Peter Salt-Berrymen. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for joints and calm. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Peter Salt-Berrymen**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpFJbQJMSQ

- **Runtime**: 2 min (139 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing, and safe to do holding a chair
- **Style**: Qigong — repeated breath-linked movements rather than a choreographed sequence
- **Trains**: joints, calm
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: restorative, gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Qigong
- **Teaching style**: talks you through each movement as you go
- **Spoken language**: English

Tai Chi places this class into a session automatically rather than asking you to choose it: https://tai-chi.app