Beginning Tai Chi Chuan Movement

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Toni from the Expert Village. I’m going to be teaching Tai Chi Chuan, the very beginning movements from the yang style form. After you have centered yourself and stood quietly a few moments, longer if you’d like, reach out with your hands as if you’re reaching for somebody. Turn your hands over, your elbows come down and your hands will follow, pull all the way down in a continuous motion until you come to your thighs. Keep the energy pushing down, try that again. Reach out to about shoulder height, turn them over and come down, one move and push. When you bring your hands up don’t bring your shoulders up, the hand comes up, the elbow follows and the shoulder follows. It doesn’t go like this first, one doesn’t leave without the other. One more time, reach out very soft, raise the crown, awww."