Tai Chi Walking: from beginners to advanced (Tutorial)

You take me back almost 50 years when teacher had me silly walking around. You have an amazing journey ahead of you, my friend. ☯️🙏

I learned this walking trying to sneak into a tree stand and not step on branches and dried leaves during bow hunting season.

I've been doing this about 2 years ago after a certain spiritual breakthrough. It's amazing. Didn't know it was part of Tai Chi! Thank you, sir.

Thank you for posting this George, when I was learning Yang Style tai chi at the midst of pandemic this is my first training, at first this is very hard for me since I dont have the foundation. My routing is night shift work from home call center and I do barely have physical activity aside from walking outside, Kudos George, you just earned a new subscriber.

After 38 yrs of massive anxiety/panic attacks on a daily basis I am now all better, thanks to acupuncture. However I do have to learn to walk again correctly (something I did not do during my anxiety years, simply because I was too scared to) My wonderful acupuncturist referred me to this particular link & even after a few sessions with it, I find that I am slowly starting to re-distribute my weight correctly which will lead over time to correct posture/balance . It is not until I started to recover, that I realised how natural/gentle this particular type of walking really is & how 'normal' it feels. There is a lot to be said about Traditional Chinese methods, with this you tube lesson being a perfect example. Thank you so much Peggy Wood (Aotearoa)

Hey George. Thank you for the video. You are part of the reason that I am so into Qi Gong. I was searching for more out of life shortly before the pandemic or in the middle I don’t remember. But I saw your videos from the beginning on your journey with master Gui. not sure if I spelled that right. Anyways, brother, thank you for the video again. You look wonderful.❤

Thank you George! You look as joyful as during the retreat, it's great to see you 😊

Thank you for this video and your others. I would certainly say a video regarding glute strengthening would be very useful, especially for me personally as traditional methods dont work for me due to a back problem I have, so I would greatly appreciate such a video!

Very good! Thankyou - I'll be using this.

Thank you so much. Tai Chi Walking for me was always a fixed pattern of steps but I’ll definitely try this one out for myself and then with my students. I always found that the very beginners really struggled with the fixed pattern so just focussing on basic steps and playing with it might actually get a better learning curve. I’d really like to see the video of your strengthening exercises because many of my students struggle with hip strength and I’d really like to give them some tai chi-y exercises to work on that

George, fantastic timing, one of my students requested help for her mother and this is a perfect start. Be well, Michele

I love this! Thanks so much for sharing. It reminds me a lot of things I’m already doing. See, I really can’t afford lessons and as a stay at home parent I don’t have a ton of time for self study, so I try to work my own understanding of some of the principles into conscious movement flow inspired by Tai Chi whether it’s empty handed, sword, cane, staff, etc! I will definitely be working this walking into what I do to give my legs a greater workout since what I’ve been doing has been mostly working upper body :)

I love this! It's really satisfing. I just wanted to mention that when using subtitles, as I do, one can't see the very bottom of the screen and so to watch the feet I have to turn off subtitling...the benefit though is that I get to watch it twice! Thanks for all these great vids...

I would love to see the strengthening exercises you found beneficial!

Hi George, I've been practicing Chen Tai Chi for years, so my focus is also on the feet and walking slowly. As a meditation, I have recently been intuitively performing all of the walking methods you have presented_walking backwards even after jogging. Nice that you make this video accessible to many people here! For me personally, I have found that mobilizing the many joints of the feet we have before Tai Chi Walking brings an additional effect: place one foot over the knee, bring four fingers of the opposite hand between the toes and close the hand tight. Now the toes are bent by vigorous movements of the hand, first up and down, later to the left and right, thereby massaging and mobilizing the joints. Duration according to feeling and desire. I like to do this mini-training before a jog and especially before Tai Chi Walking, because the feet are optimally "prepared". Good walking!

Yes, please. A video on strengthening the glutes would be very welcome.

Thanks! ❤❤❤

Thank you

Thank you George, many blessings!

Today i practice this for 10 minutes and i begin to walk faster…thank you so much! I will practice daily! 🙏🏼