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title: How to do Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises for Beginners
teacher: Michelle Kenway
runtime: 4 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/how-to-do-diaphragmatic-breathing-exercises-for-beginners-9jpchJcKivk
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# How to do Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises for Beginners

4 min with Michelle Kenway. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for calm and focus. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Michelle Kenway**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jpchJcKivk

- **Runtime**: 4 min (233 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**: calm, focus
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks
- **Intensity**: restorative, gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Center
- **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