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title: Balance Exercise for Seniors: Stork Stance
teacher: Joan Pagano
runtime: 1 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/balance-exercise-for-seniors-stork-stance-oIjzpglkA5w
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Balance Exercise for Seniors: Stork Stance

1 min with Joan Pagano. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for balance and leg strength. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Joan Pagano**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIjzpglkA5w

- **Runtime**: 1 min (65 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing, and safe to do holding a chair
- **Style**: A mix of families, or drills that do not sit inside one form
- **Trains**: balance, leg strength
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: gentle, moderate
- **Phases it can fill**: Balance
- **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