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title: Step 2: Conscious Breathing - How To Extend Your Exhale in Tai Chi
teacher: The Art of Tai Chi
runtime: 2 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/step-2-conscious-breathing-how-to-extend-your-exhale-in-tai-pKInJ6Yxys
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Step 2: Conscious Breathing - How To Extend Your Exhale in Tai Chi

2 min with The Art of Tai Chi. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for calm and stamina. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **The Art of Tai Chi**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pKInJ6Yxys

- **Runtime**: 2 min (127 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing, and safe to do holding a chair
- **Style**: Yang style — the most widely taught family, large slow circular movements and an upright frame
- **Trains**: calm, stamina
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: restorative, gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Center
- **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