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title: Qi Gong Exercise 4  - Wise Owl Gazes Backwards
teacher: Brendan Cabral - Tao of Strength
runtime: 1 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/qi-gong-exercise-4-wise-owl-gazes-backwards-7CsNXJLOxMk
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Qi Gong Exercise 4  - Wise Owl Gazes Backwards

1 min with Brendan Cabral - Tao of Strength. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for joints and focus. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Brendan Cabral - Tao of Strength**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CsNXJLOxMk

- **Runtime**: 1 min (30 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**: joints, focus
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: restorative, gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Qigong
- **Teaching style**: silent or near-silent performance to follow by eye
- **Spoken language**: English

Tai Chi places this class into a session automatically rather than asking you to choose it: https://tai-chi.app