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title: Improving Your Balance: Standing on One Leg | Exercise for Older Adults
teacher: SIKANA English
runtime: 2 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/improving-your-balance-standing-on-one-leg-exercise-for-olde-CSbUet53L68
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Improving Your Balance: Standing on One Leg | Exercise for Older Adults

2 min with SIKANA English. 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 **SIKANA English**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSbUet53L68

- **Runtime**: 2 min (138 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