---
title: Tai Chi for Beginners - Wu Style Short Form Moves 1 - 8
teacher: Chicago Tai Chi
runtime: 2 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/tai-chi-for-beginners-wu-style-short-form-moves-1-8-9cwfE-gZFLg
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Tai Chi for Beginners - Wu Style Short Form Moves 1 - 8

2 min with Chicago Tai Chi. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for focus and balance. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Chicago Tai Chi**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cwfE-gZFLg

- **Runtime**: 2 min (111 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing, and safe to do holding a chair
- **Style**: Wu style — a compact frame with a characteristic forward-leaning posture and small, close movements, which asks less of the knees than a large frame does
- **Trains**: focus, balance
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: 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