About the Tai Chi and Qigong Teacher

These practices set me on a wonderful life long journey and I look forward to Tai Chi and Qigong with you, so you can create a mindful life. 

How did it all begin?  I had practiced yoga for about ten years and never relaxed once.  Being an innately go, go, go type person, I went looking for something else that would provide that elusive state of relaxation.  

I came upon a Tai Chi teacher and knew right away this was a practice that could provide relaxation and a lifetime of deeper learning.  Shortly after, I found a Qigong teacher and began those studies, along with Qigong meditation, as well.  Probably like you, on beginning, I had little understanding of Tai Chi and had no idea what this other new Qigong thing was about.  Don't worry, as your Tai Chi and Qigong teacher, I can explain both of them to you now in ways that are easy to understand.  Go to the overview pages for these practices on this site for an introduction.

I have also always been interested in the concepts of our bodies containing energy and found both of these ancient practices are based on the acupuncture idea that the body has energy meridians.  Now, I knew I had found a permanent home.

I took to Tai Chi right away and started teaching beginner practitioners not too long after I began learning it.  While it is possible to more quickly learn Qigong practices, it took me much longer to learn the underlying substance of it.  So, it was several years later before I began teach Qigong.

About the Tai Chi and Qigong teacher - I have studied with five different teachers in different disciplines and am currently on certification pathways with Mantak Chia and Spring Forest Qigong.  Sometimes, people want a teacher with a certain lineage and that's fine, too.  There is a history to that approach and there is value in  the discipline of sticking with one teacher and one pathway.  

However, I am a creative soul and what works for me is to take the best from each of the teachers, as well as to research available printed knowledge, then take all of that and distill it down into the rock solid principles that have been passed down through the ages.  All of the Tai Chi and Qigong pathways work from these same core principles.  Only the movements change from one lineage to another, as teachers along the way have modified them in ways they believed would make better use of the principles.

 Finally, you should know I consider teaching  a joy and a privilege.