---
title: Two Minute Warm Up
teacher: William Kaplanidis
runtime: 2 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/two-minute-warm-up-8B9r_dZ9c3w
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Two Minute Warm Up

2 min with William Kaplanidis. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for joints. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **William Kaplanidis**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B9r_dZ9c3w

- **Runtime**: 2 min (122 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing, and safe to do holding a chair
- **Style**: Qigong — repeated breath-linked movements rather than a choreographed sequence
- **Trains**: joints
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them
- **Intensity**: gentle, moderate
- **Phases it can fill**: Warm up
- **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