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ChiRunning is the world’s leader in teaching a safe, efficient, and natural running technique aimed to reduce injury and improve personal performance

Our mission is twofold: to help you run as efficiently and injury-free as possible. These two skills will make your running a joyful and successful practice and are based on the movement principles of T’ai Chi.

Running doesn’t need to be difficult or hard on the body. The problem isn’t running, it’s the way you run.

Embrace the movement principles as they are intended by nature

Connect your mind and body to experience a holistic practice

Protect your joints and run safely by minimizing impact and overuse

Create easy, fluid and faster running by learning proper mechanics

start your journey

ChiRunning is based on a centuries-old principle from T’ai Chi: shift your workload to the core muscles. Your efficiency comes from allowing gravity to assist your propulsion, taking the workload off your legs and letting you run lightly and swiftly like you did as a youngster.

Getting Started

Focus your mind. Strengthen your core. Run like the wind. Learn to reduce and prevent injuries, while reducing recovery time, with our T’ai Chi-based technique.

Training

If you want to run your first 5K or get a personal best at a marathon, the best place to begin is with good running technique. Distance, conditioning and speed then come with ease.

ChiRunning School

Get the full ChiRunning experience from anywhere in the world with our live webinars, video lessons, and audio downloads.

ChiRunning App

Get on the fast track to great running with the App which includes video lessons and on-the-run audio coaching from Danny Dreyer, creator of ChiRunning.

Become an Instructor

Bring joy through movement and support the achievement of life-altering goals for runners in your area and around the world as a Certified Instructor.

Workshops

Enjoy learning the ChiRunning technique from a certified instructor. Find an instructor near you.

Bring Chi into your life

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begin your self-Discovery Journey with chiRunning

ChiRunning provides powerful instruction and transforms running from a high-injury sport to a body-friendly fitness phenomenon.

See What Others are Saying

I am running in the NYC Marathon and could not have even contemplated it without learning to ChiRun. ChiRunning seems too good to be true when you hear or read about it, and I was skeptical at first, but it has changed my life for ever. My runs had never really been more than 3-5 miles at a time and I was in pain and exhausted after each run. Now I can physically breeze through 7-10 miles with less than a moderate effort. Half marathons are like 5ks were before learning to Chi Run.

I had a history of shin splints, knees hurting, plantar fasciitis, and tendonitis in one of my feet. Now I no longer experience any pain. You can feel the proper form in ChiRunning. Tthe run becomes so effortless. I am very passionate about the wonder of ChiRunning because what I experienced was actually this good.

I expected ChiRunning to make me fitter and faster, I didn't expect it'd make running more fun! Probably the biggest change, and the most unexpected change, has been the mental one. Running has become a form of meditation.

My first marathon took me 6 hours. My second took me 6 hours and 3 minutes. My third only lasted 19 miles. I read the book. I watched the DVD. I relaxed my legs, straightened my posture, leaned forward, let my arms and legs swing behind me, and finished my fourth marathon in under 5 hours! And nothing hurt! Just wait until I work with the metronome–maybe I’ll make it to Boston!

I’ve been ChiRunning for two months and have dramatically improved my running. I ran a 10k last week in 49:02 versus 56:08, a year ago!

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