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title: Tai Chi Fit for a Healthy Back (YMAA chair workout) Seated Tai Chi with David-Dorian Ross
teacher: YMAA Publication Center
runtime: 3 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/tai-chi-fit-for-a-healthy-back-ymaa-chair-workout-seated-tai-J-cuG9Dh0PE
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Tai Chi Fit for a Healthy Back (YMAA chair workout) Seated Tai Chi with David-Dorian Ross

3 min with YMAA Publication Center. Taught entirely seated. Works for joints and leg strength. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **YMAA Publication Center**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-cuG9Dh0PE

- **Runtime**: 3 min (180 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, leg strength
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: restorative, gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Form
- **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