Begin the day slow, together.
A gentle, entry-level Tai Chi you can simply follow along with — short morning sessions to settle into breath, posture, and slow, unhurried movement, outdoors in the morning air at the Pasadena Public Library. No experience needed and nothing to memorize.
What we practice is the 24-movement form — the simplified short form of Yang-style Tai Chi, twenty-four postures in a set sequence. It is built to be learned a few movements at a time, and each one trains a different part of the same thing: shifting weight cleanly from one leg to the other, turning from the waist rather than the shoulders, keeping the breath long while the arms move slowly, and finding balance on one foot without bracing for it. Come week to week and the sequence accumulates, until the form runs start to finish without anyone calling it out. Come once and you have still moved well for an hour.
We move together through the form, then sit down together for tea and dim sum. Come as you are — wear something comfortable you can move in; everything else we'll do together.
- First 40 minutesGentle Tai Chi movement, outdoors
- Next 20 minutesTea & dim sum together
Tea and dim sum provided.
- Friday8:00 – 9:00 AM
- Saturday9:00 – 10:00 AM
- WherePasadena Public Library
The season ran weekly from 5 June to 8 August 2026.
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Taught outdoors in Parco Sempione, the park behind the Castello Sforzesco, in the quiet week between Christmas and the new year — the same hour and the same opening movements as the morning class here, in colder air.
Fu
Fu is a reader, Fengshui consultant, and Tai Chi practitioner working at the meeting point of East and West. Raised in the Taoist tradition and trained in its practice, she holds an M.A. in Integrative Studies from Brown, where she researched Taoism, Nüshu, and the translation of queer Chinese poetry, and a B.A. in Economics and Film from Notre Dame, with a supplementary major in Peace Studies — with academic research and translation work continuing alongside her teaching. She leads the morning class the way she reads: with care, and without judgment.