Tai Chi for Rehabilitation (TCR) - Cool Down in Sitting (Front and Side Views)

The facts

Runtime

2 min (109 seconds)

Posture

Taught seated throughout

Style

A mix of families, or drills that do not sit inside one form

Teaching

The teacher talks you through each movement as you go.

Spoken cues

English

Verified

Runtime verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02. The number above is what YouTube reports, not what the title claims — titles routinely round a fourteen-minute class down to “10 min”, and the session timer budgets against the real figure.

Where this fits in a session

Every Tai Chi session is the same arc, and each class is eligible only for the phases it can honestly fill. This one can take one slot:

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Down-regulate. Slow the breath and return attention to the room.

The engine will reach for it when you have asked for restorative and gentle intensity — intensity in tai chi being stance height and single-leg time rather than speed — and it suits someone in their first weeks. Against the six things you can train for, it earns its place on down-regulation and breath; joint mobility and comfortable range. Choose one of those as your focus and this class becomes more likely to appear; choose something else and it will step aside for a class that serves it better. It will not appear twice in the same week if there is anything comparable to rotate to — keeping tomorrow from feeling like today is the selector's main job.

Is this safe for me?

This one is taught seated from beginning to end, so standing stability is not a requirement. Use a firm chair with no wheels and both feet flat on the floor.

The universal cautions apply here as they do everywhere: stop for sharp pain, chest pain, dizziness or breathlessness that does not settle; never force a knee past the toes; let the knee track over the foot. If you need to make a session easier, raise your stance before you shorten it. Tai Chi does not screen for contraindications and does not personalise around a diagnosis — the safety scope is written out in full, including what it refuses to do.

Classes the engine treats as neighbours

These fill the same slot for similar practitioners, which is exactly what the rotation draws on when it is avoiding a repeat.

• Tai Chi Cool Down — CityofAlamogordo, 2 min chair-friendly
• Tai Chi Cool Down - Australian Tai Chi Institute — AustTaiChiInstitute, 2 min chair-friendly
• Tai Chi for Rehabilitation (TCR) - Cool Down in Standing (Front View) — Stanford Pain Medicine, 2 min chair-friendly
• Cool Down for Tai Chi — Cheryl “Cheryl's Life Fitness” Seabright, 2 min chair-friendly
• Tai Chi Cooldown — TURANGA HEALTH, 2 min chair-friendly
• Yang taichi closing sequence — chennaitaichi, 2 min chair-friendly