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title: Basic Tahichi for Beginner - Taichi Technique - Weight Shifting（Quad）2
teacher: taichiwithdonna
runtime: 1 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/basic-tahichi-for-beginner-taichi-technique-weight-shifting-2Z34pVihLTM
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Basic Tahichi for Beginner - Taichi Technique - Weight Shifting（Quad）2

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

Taught by **taichiwithdonna**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z34pVihLTM

- **Runtime**: 1 min (62 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing, and safe to do holding a chair
- **Style**: Yang style — the most widely taught family, large slow circular movements and an upright frame
- **Trains**: balance
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: gentle
- **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