Champaign Urbana Taiji Qigong (CUTQ) offers taiji (tai chi) and qigong instruction in Champaign Urbana, including beginning, continuing, advanced, private, Skype, and workshop classes. The program teaches from a lineage rooted in taiji and qigong tradition in China and incorporates meditation as a foundation of practice, with sitting, standing, and lying-down postures included in the curriculum. The program was started by Yang Yang in 1996 while he was a doctoral student at the University of Illinois researching the benefits of taiji and qigong practice.