Yes I have done it as a young woman. I highly recommend it in a group setting. Unfortunately I wasn't able to continue in a group setting and found my own company quite boring while doing it.

I did not find it difficult to learn the steps. We had a very good teacher though. At least for me practicing each new step as well as I could at home was the key when first learning.

Nowadays there are excellent Tai Chi teachers to follow online if you know which style they are going to do.

Good luck and how fun that you get to go out and be with other people distanced of course. :-)

I don't think you will have problem at all.

Personally, I found it boring. Maybe the instructor makes the difference?

I took classes many years ago. Not for me. Yoga is also not for me. I crave more intense movement. Perhaps a different teacher would have been a different experience.

I took a class in my 30s and enjoyed it, although when a sub was teaching I did not. I'm not athletic at all but I found it to be a good exercise physically and mentally, more so than the karate classes I took several years later. Give it a try! I learned a move that I still use for focus and calming.

I looved my Tai Chi class pre-pandemic and miss it. I must admit that instructors have a lot to do with the experience. Our initial instructor passed away and his substitute just wasn't the same. It was very calming and fed my spirit. Not only that, but you move different parts of your body, keeps you limber and is great for balance.

Orchid, yes, limber and balance. I think i will take a class again; at 65 I could use both, I think I was lucky with my first instructor, I’d like to find someone similar. I haven’t done yoga, but he seemed rather yoga-like compared to his sub, who was more martial-arts.

I tried it once and did ok at it, but it was simply too slow for me. I was ready to get a little speed and rhythm going!

I do line dancing now and yoga too.

They are bringing it back to our gym so I may try it again. Our gym offers a zoom option so you don't have to go in person to get the instruction.

I took two classes many moons ago. I’d like to learn it again. Maybe I try youtube this time if there is any.

I took tai chi classes about 25 years ago, and loved it. I had no special skills then, so it won't be difficult for you to pick up. It's worth a try.

I went to a studio that exclusively taught Tai Chi when I was learning. The instructor as I said was great. We did swordplay and hand-to-hand exercises. The studio was very popular and always busy.

I think everyone's right that the instructor means a lot plus bonus meditations and workouts.

We also did qigong pronounced chigong which is always a great calming exercise routine.

Never tried Tai Chi but i love Chai Tea……😉

Annie, yes! That was probably my issue with it as well. When is this warm up going to be over?!

I don't think it's any slower than yoga. If you enjoyed yoga, then I would certainly give it a try. It's very popular in my area with seniors (low-impact). Two of the ladies in my lunch-bunch group have been going for at least a couple of years. You'd never know to look at them (or by their actions lol) that they are 84!

Tina Marie, it's different from yoga...even if it's slow, you hold a pose and can feel the muscles working. Tai chi is like a dance recorded at 78 and slowed down to 33 1/3...when I'm dancing, I want to move, not like I'm trying to push my way through mud.

I could try it again though, just to see.

DH and I tried it several years ago. We both had to quit because of the strain some of the poses put on our knees. I am not at all athletic or graceful. Our instructor was very good and quite experienced, but it was hard for me to follow.

Interested to hear your experience if you try it Jojoco. A retired army colonel (woman) teaches Tai Chi in our community and on nice days they do it outside on a lawn. (It looks just like those scenes in movies of where senior citizens from a retirement community are planning a heist and you can see a Tai Chi group in the background while the main characters plot away.) It looks calming.

I'm working this Sunday so I can't go to check it out, but dh is going and will report back. If he likes it then I'll give it a try next Sunday.

Having observed their class and doing yoga myself, yes, I do know there is a difference. More than one method of Tai Chi is taught, so it sounds like some of you may be going to different type classes. But it's like someone posted above, find what you like and go with it!

Keep us posted Jo!