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title: How To Do Gathering Chi (Tai Chi) - Warm Up & Tai Chi Exercises - Wellen
teacher: Wellen
runtime: 1 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/how-to-do-gathering-chi-tai-chi-warm-up-tai-chi-exercises-we-UlYP796SF2c
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# How To Do Gathering Chi (Tai Chi) - Warm Up & Tai Chi Exercises - Wellen

1 min with Wellen. 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 **Wellen**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYP796SF2c

- **Runtime**: 1 min (80 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**: joints, calm
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks
- **Intensity**: gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Warm up
- **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