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title: (🎧) Zhan Zhuang: 3 Minute Standing Meditation
teacher: Rooted Practices
runtime: 3 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/zhan-zhuang-3-minute-standing-meditation-c16YtiQ_ZZM
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# (🎧) Zhan Zhuang: 3 Minute Standing Meditation

3 min with Rooted Practices. Standing, and safe to do holding a chair. Works for calm and focus. Suits beginners. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Rooted Practices**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c16YtiQ_ZZM

- **Runtime**: 3 min (192 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**: calm, focus
- **Suits**: someone in their first weeks, someone with a few months behind them, someone with an established practice
- **Intensity**: restorative, gentle
- **Phases it can fill**: Center
- **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