Tai Chi Walking for Beginners | How To Do Tai Chi Walking

Tai Chi Walking for Beginners | How To Do Tai Chi Walking

What is tai chi walking?? Join me in this quick 12 minute tutorial of mindful walking meditation in this tai chi step by step (pun intended) video! This practice is a great tai chi for beginners intro, or even if you have an advanced tai chi practice you will definitely enjoy this tai chi exercise! This beginners tai chi walk can be done outside or indoors, whatever feels comfortable for you. I am a former Dr Paul Lam student and graduate of Tai Chi for Health Institute and love connecting with other tai chi / qigong students.

Comment below if you enjoyed this video, I would love to know what you thought of this tai chi walking demonstration.



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[maminoblue]

I've been practicing this for 3 days now, and I'm starting to get the hang of it. The explanation is very good. I listened several times to get it right. Basics are the most important thing. Thank you so much for taking your time!! ❤

[lenwenzel]

I like your teaching manner Anne. You are right this is much better for you when enjoying nature. Did you know this is a remarkable recovery technique for stroke victims. One student with cognitive difficulties, and balance issues, along with memory, and speech issues was helped immensely by something similar to your technique. After a few months you would hardly know he had any issues from his stroke, and this practice was only started more than a year after his stroke. His wife, and he were very happy with his progress. I was blown away seeing how Tai Chi was healing him.
I wanted him to get the most out his (what I called Tao Walking) as I wanted to allow him maximum nerve pathway development. So each day as he got stronger, he challenged his balance, and strength, and each day was a little better. When you come down to it that's all any of us can ask.

[rvista]

What a great refresher on the fundamentals from when I was enrolled in Tai Chi classes: Hang from the crown (don’t look down), shift the weight: one foot empties as the other fills, shift and turn from the hips, step lightly. Some of our best classes began with variations of standing meditation followed by this style of meditative walking. Tai Chi walking and Push Hands were my favorites. You are a great teacher!

[macrumpton]

In my old Tai Chi school in NYC we used to have Tai Chi walking races where the last to arrive was the winner.

[haerthguard]

I really like how the top-down camera helps give a visual of how you are displacing your weight and moving through the stances. This is really excellent, thank you!

[markdonovan]

Excellent instruction and demonstration. This fundamental practice of Tai Chi is often overlooked as students focus on the form and hand movements. However, the root of movements comes from the feet and the relaxed concentration and correct alignment are very important to develop at an early stage - and to continually revisit.
You have a superb teaching style that your students will benefit from.

[eeyoresgirl]

This looks perfect for seniors, disabled, anyone with limited mobility. I enjoyed the calming music.

[MoMo-vigo]

After a foot operation I have just done my first Tai Chi lesson at a local community centre on Monday this week with the aim of restoring my sense of balance and achieve some fitness in a gentle way - I joined a class that has been going for a while so I followed and mimicked what the other students were doing - I was a little awed by the movement of the other students and their dexterity - even the walking steps - I found this demonstration excellent - it clearly explained the walking steps and provided a useful mantra that I was able to memorise quickly - Many thanks - I am very grateful

[TellaGordon-xetn]

Thank you for the detail, slowness, and repetition. They are all especially necessary when learning from video vs classroom setting where the instructor can observe and modify.

[jordanvanderwerfhiphop]

Very cool! - I learned this from a teacher once way back, but I don't practice it enough. Nor do I recall all the subtle details. Thank you!!!

[dapidminiAiki]

I love how you mention to keep the kua open to protect your knee. many people tend to close their kua when they shift the weight, causing their knee joint to become twisted, which is the most common cause of knee pain during Taiji training.

[AveDawg]

Tai chi can be a lifestyle I've actually been practicing since I was about 6 when I found a book, I'm 46 now and I'm glad I did.

[JE-western-rider]

Excellent job teaching the sequence for the Tai CHi Walk. I've been doing it on and off for three years so far. Sometimes, I'm walking like a cat - smoothly and softly and, sometimes I feel like Godzilla stopping Tokyo. It is an important skill. It'll help teach you to pay attention to your feet and help you walk on ice. Yes, you will use it. Really. If you learn the Yang 24 set, you'll use the Tai Chi walk in the first half of the set.

[smilelyjax]

I've never done or watched Tai Chi, but I really like it and the way my body feels after doing it. Thank you for the clear instruction!

[jeanneratterman]

Excellent details! The strength building, coordination, balance, agility, stability building is phenomenal! Slow as you go, repeat and build on it as you go gives satisfying results.

[russpalmeri]

Thanks! We have our second Tai Chi class tomorrow, and your video will be very helpful.

[moderncontemplative]

Excellent video. This is, essentially, what I learned to do during slow walking meditation years ago at a zen monastery. However, this is a unique technique which can compliment walking meditation. Meditation is meditation in any posture! 😊👍🏾

[ulkuyuksel]

Thanks but it would be good to make this with a tight or short instead of a very large pants so that we could see all the rotations of the legs and knees!

[j.p.morgan]

That's what excellent pedagogy is all about. Breaking it down and then building it up to the whole. Thank you.

[toddburgess]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Just a couple of minutes of this, and I had more tendons popping than a pan of JiffyPop. My psosas are so bound up from a hernia mesh intrusion that walking is often very painful. This had dramatic immediate positive results as opposed to physical therapies that only created more pain without much benefit. Acupuncture got too expensive as did laser treatments, but this worked better than all the above!!
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