Tai chi chuan - walking



  • Start in horse stance, put both hands over your lower abdomen.
  • Shift your weight onto your right foot, lift your left foot and bring it into meet your right and then back out to step to a point just in front of where it was in the horse stance but pointing out at about 45.
  • Only when your foot is down shift your weight forward on to your left foot. Your pelvis needs to be at the same height as you shift your weight so adjust the amount of flexion in your knees so that you don’t bob up and down.
  • Now rock back onto your right foot again and straighten your left by turning it at the heel once most of the weight is off it.
  • Now shift forward onto your left foot again and bring your right foot to meet it and loop back out for another step, again just in front of where it was originally, pointing at 45.
  • Only when your foot is in position shift your weight over, again without bobbing up and down.
  • That’s it, now you just repeat these steps. Come back to your left, straighten the right, shift forward onto the right as you step with the left foot, etc.
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