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title: Seated Tai Chi for Arthritis or joint mobility issues
teacher: Heidi Gillis
runtime: 4 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/seated-tai-chi-for-arthritis-or-joint-mobility-issues-WZ9k2uL1DX8
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Seated Tai Chi for Arthritis or joint mobility issues

4 min with Heidi Gillis. Taught entirely seated. Works for joints and focus. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Heidi Gillis**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ9k2uL1DX8

- **Runtime**: 4 min (218 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Taught entirely seated
- **Style**: Yang style — the most widely taught family, large slow circular movements and an upright frame
- **Trains**: joints, focus
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks
- **Intensity**: restorative, gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Form
- **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