News from Teachers–The News Is Diversity!

In the past few months we have heard from teachers, many of them recently accredited, who report classes in a wonderful variety of settings:

SUSAN PENDERGAST of Cayucos, California (accredited November 1988) is teaching her first classes at the Garden Chapel of the Coalesce Bookstore in Morro Bay California.

MARY PISH of Sebastopol, California (July 1988) teaches two classes a week at Sonoma State University plus private lessons.

HARRIET HENDERSON (accredited since November 1984) is now minister of the Newhall, California Church of Religious Science. She recently taught a one-day T’ai Chi Chih workshop in Lancaster, offers a morning T’ai Chi Chih class at her church, and will lead T’ai Chi Chih at the two-week Church of Religious Science annual conference in August at Asilomar, as she has for the past four years. Harriet offers the use of her facility to any teacher who wants to teach T’ai Chi Chih mornings or afternoons in Newhall, or for a weekend seminar. Thanks, Harriet!

FRAN DUKEHART (accredited since November 1988) is teaching T’ai Chi Chih to children through the Sunday school program at Unity Christ Church of San Luis Obispo, California.

LYNNE BLACKFORD (accredited since November 1988) teaches T’ai Chi Chih at the Unity Church of Missoula, Montana. In May she led a workshop as part of a retreat entitled “One Spirit: A Celebration of New Beginnings” at the Feathered Pipe Ranch near Helena, Montana. She writes: “My T’ai Chi Chih class is a joy! Each class I gain more confidence and the enthusiasm from my students is special. I enjoyed leading T’ai Chi Chih for the group at a retreat in April at Priest Lake Resort in Idaho.

JEANNE CARLSON-LINSCOTT (July 1986) of Bemidji, Minnesota incorporated T’ai Chi Chih classes into her annual “Experience AESCULAPEUS: A Wellness and Renewal Retreat” in May at the Valhalla Resort near Bemidji. Jeanne invites all T’ai Chi Chih teachers to consider attending next year’s retreat!

DOROTHY MARKS (July 1988) is up to 65 students in her classes in Independence and Kansas City, Missouri. A number of her students are doctors and nurses at St. Luke’s Hospital, where T’ai Chi Chih is offered as part of the Arthritis Clinic’s curriculum. The Kansas City newspaper plans to do a series of articles about T’ai Chi Chih, and Dorothy will be speaking before a meeting of the National Health Federation.

MELINDA ARTZ (April 1988) is preparing a group of students to take the instructor’s accreditation course in October 1989 in Helena, Montana. Please contact Melinda if you have students to recommend for certification in October.