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title: Pulling Up the Earth - Grounding Exercise
teacher: John Weiss, MMQ - Certified Qigong Instructor 
runtime: 3 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/pulling-up-the-earth-grounding-exercise-8s1wWnuFTqc
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Pulling Up the Earth - Grounding Exercise

3 min with John Weiss, MMQ - Certified Qigong Instructor . Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for calm and joints. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **John Weiss, MMQ - Certified Qigong Instructor **. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s1wWnuFTqc

- **Runtime**: 3 min (206 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, joints
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: restorative, gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Center, Qigong
- **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