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title: Qigong with Emma - warm up exercise - Side Arm Swings
teacher: Qigong with Emma
runtime: 1 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/qigong-with-emma-warm-up-exercise-side-arm-swings-449M-nXnYZc
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Qigong with Emma - warm up exercise - Side Arm Swings

1 min with Qigong with Emma. 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 **Qigong with Emma**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449M-nXnYZc

- **Runtime**: 1 min (39 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, calm
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Warm up
- **Teaching style**: moves with you, with minimal talking
- **Spoken language**: English

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