I started teaching T’ai Chi Chih to help seniors and people with disabilities regain independence in their lives. From teaching once a week for the Pittsburg Fifty Plus Club, the classes have evolved to a mixture of in-person at the Senior Center (Monday PM and Thursday AM) and online via Zoom (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday AM). My classes consist mainly Read more...

T’ai Chi Chih has given me a sense of peace and balance and I would like to share that with others. As a busy mom with four kids, I have found that T’ai Chi Chih can easily fit into a busy lifestyle. It is a wonderful way to care for yourself so that you can better manage life’s turbulence. Tai Read more...

Greetings, Many years ago I became both intrigued and fascinated in watching local people practice a form of beautiful movement at local parks in Santa Cruz, California. Over the years I rented a few VHSs and then DVDs of various Tai Chi forms but my attention soon waned. In 2010, while experiencing a good amount of job related stress, I Read more...

The  knowledge of T’ai Chi Chih can take you to exotic places. I became a teacher because I wanted to bring my travel companions to Guatemala and share the experience and joy of practicing TCC on a helicopter pad, looking across Lake Atitlan to the volcanoes and passing clouds. This dream came true after becoming certified to teach by Justin Read more...

I was accredited in 2021 after learning and practicing T’ai Chi Chih since 2017 with more than a dozen phenomenal teachers in the T’ai Chi Chih community across the US and UK. Please join me in-person in an ongoing T’ai Chi Chih class at the Tustin Senior Center on Tuesdays at 10:30am; Senior Center class fee $1.00.  Additional in-person Beyond Read more...

Hi, I’m Caroline Guilott, accredited in T’ai Chi Chih since June 1999. I frequently studied with TCC originator, Justin Stone, through the latter part of his life. For me, T’ai Chi Chih is simply a way of life. I derive joy seeing my students achieve breakthroughs and grow their inner sensibilities. What motivates me as a teacher ? When I Read more...

Stop, pause. Observe. Breathe. Step by step. Everything always works out.   https://www.facebook.com/taichichih Read more...

Kathleen McAllister is an accredited T’ai Chi Chih teacher and Reiki Master who is dedicated to helping students of all ages reduce stress and regain balance thru this very “user-friendly ” moving meditation. She noticed as a student during the first T’ai Chi Chih class she attended, a strong flow of energy manifesting as heat. Because she has Raynauds disease, Read more...

I began learning T’ai Chi Chih with Marie Dotts in March 2014 and was hooked from the first lesson! I was a professional public reference librarian for more than 40 years and easily transitioned to teaching TCC when I retired. In both situations I was and am dedicated to helping others find what they are looking for to improve their Read more...

I first learned T’ai Chi Chih in 1997 with someone who was not accredited. I still felt calm, grounded, and centered. It helped me gather my energy, my thoughts, my courage to do all that I had to do at the time. I was SuperMom: working full time and taking classes toward three accreditations and being married raising two kids. Read more...

My T’ai Chi Chih Story: From the moment that T’ai Chi Chih (TCC) was introduced to me, I felt an inexplicable soothing calm that captured my interest and curiosity. Passion ignited purpose in June 2019 with an invitation to offer TCC to veterans living with the challenges of PTSD. I’ve experienced how trauma changes the brain, dissolving the ability to Read more...

I was introduced to Tai Chi Chih in 1994 and found it the perfect antidote to the dis-ease of modern life.  I was so taken with the form that I flew to the States in 2010, to gain my teacher’s accreditation. Although Im qualified to teach other forms of Tai Chi, I prefer to share TTC, especially with Western beginners. Read more...

Hello everyone!  I was lucky back in 2004 to watch my yoga teacher, Linda Prosche, doing a series of beautiful, soft flowing movements. Yoga class had not yet started. I asked her what she was going. She told me a little about Tai Chi Chih. I said “I have to learn this form.” I went and spoke to the head Read more...

Laurin was accredited to teach in March 2018 and has been actively teaching since then. She teaches up to 60 students a week with a mixture of classes, from beginners to experienced students and works within the community working with those with disabilities, recovering from stroke or other brain injuries and adults with lifetime disabilities such as cerebral palsy.  She Read more...

On my first visit to China back in 1984, I saw many people in the park in Shanghai doing slow, rhythmic movements. Swaying and moving with the most peaceful expressions on their faces. Wow! I wondered what this was. I needed to find out. I walked around the park and watched for a while. Since this was right after China Read more...

Carmen became an accredited T’ai Chi Chih teacher in 1980 and Seijaku (advanced TCC) in 1987. TCC Originator Justin Stone certified her for both. Carmen has lectured and taught T’ai Chi Chih classes (in English and Spanish) and workshops in many U.S. states and internationally. Over the years, she has taught TCC at IBM, Intel, Southwestern General Corporation of Colorado, Gallup-McKinley Read more...

Dennis has been working for the past 21 years as Director of Spiritual Care for two Connecticut health systems. Known originally as a meditation teacher, in 2009 he became certified as a T’ai Chi Chih teacher to incorporate “moving meditation” into the healing practice of physical, mental, and spiritual care. Dennis is founder of the Middlesex Health Center for Mindfulness Read more...