Learn tai chi 15 minutes a day —
with a teacher who texts you.
sifu teaches you the Yang-style 24-Form one move at a time, right over iMessage. It paces you, nudges you when you skip a day, and fixes your form without a camera. The book never did that. The video never did that.
No app. No camera. No login. If you can text a friend, you can learn from sifu.
You didn't quit tai chi.
Nothing ever taught you how to stick with it.
You went all-in on day one, skipped day two, and quietly stopped — and decided you "can't learn this alone." But the form isn't the hard part; it's fully documented. What you never had was a teacher to pace you, check in, and correct you. That's the whole gap.
A book can't pace you. A video can't notice you stopped.
One move at a time. A text most days.
Form fixed without a camera.
Sequence. Nudge. Correct. The three things only a teacher does.
Text your sifu
Add it on iMessage — no app, no camera, no setup. It gives you a single move and won't pile on the next until that one's yours.
Show up ~10–15 min
A daily nudge keeps the thread going — rewarding showing up over showing off. Miss a day? It gets you back. No guilt, no streak to rebuild from zero.
Get corrected by feel
When something's off, it asks one simple question about how the move feels — your answer tells it exactly what to fix, and it gives you the one cue that fixes it.
A camera sees your shape.
sifu coaches what you feel.
Most form mistakes are felt before they're seen — and tai chi lives on the inside: relaxation, rooting, balance. So sifu doesn't watch you. It asks. No footage of you in your living room, ever.
See how it keeps you safe →One question. One cue. The thing a video can't do.
It stops when it should — every time.
Tell sifu about real pain, dizziness, or chest tightness and it stops the lesson and points you to a physician. Not a checkbox you ignored — a rule written into the code. sifu coaches movement, not medicine. The form itself is gentle, weight-shifting, low-impact — the single most evidence-backed exercise for balance and fall prevention.
In 4 to 6 weeks of showing up,
your body starts to thank you.
Stick with it and the benefits land — steadier balance, lower blood pressure, less stress, better sleep, a calm you carry into the rest of your day. Not because tai chi is magic, but because you finally kept the habit. This is the first time it sticks.
Start your first move tonightFree to start, one move tonight — no camera, no class schedule, no chanting. Cancel anytime by texting "stop."
You've tried the book, the video, the app. You meant to keep going. We know exactly why you didn't — and it wasn't you.
"How can it correct me if it can't see me?"
A camera sees your shape; it can't feel your knee or your breath. sifu asks where the movement lives and corrects what you feel — which is where tai chi actually happens.
"Is it safe to do alone?"
Done standing, one small move at a time, no floor work. And it stops cold and sends you to a doctor at the first sign of real pain or dizziness — by design.
"Isn't this just another app I'll abandon?"
It's a text message, not an app. The nudge finds you — you don't have to remember to find it. And you only ever face today's one move, never a wall of 24.
"Is the tai chi any good?"
It teaches the Yang-style 24-Form — the standardized sequence taught in parks and studios worldwide since 1956 — and coaches the internal principles (rooting, sinking, relaxation), not just the shapes.
sifu is an agent, not a chatbot.
Under the hood, sifu is a real MCP server with a typed tool surface and a code-enforced safety boundary — so an operator agent can run your practice loop while you just practice. Building with agents?