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title: TaiChi for Beginner - TaiChi Technique - Hand Technique with Weight Shifting
teacher: taichiwithdonna
runtime: 1 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/taichi-for-beginner-taichi-technique-hand-technique-with-wei-xpQrn3iJSto
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# TaiChi for Beginner - TaiChi Technique - Hand Technique with Weight Shifting

1 min with taichiwithdonna. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for balance. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **taichiwithdonna**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpQrn3iJSto

- **Runtime**: 1 min (50 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**: balance
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks
- **Intensity**: gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Balance
- **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