Are You Teaching T’ai Chi Chih

I would like to personally urge all accredited teachers to actively teach T’ai Chi Chih. T’ai Chi Chih is still relatively unknown, yet all people are looking for what it has to offer: serenity of mind, improvement in health, and, eventually, the grace of wisdom and insight. Its simplicity and its effectiveness make it easy to learn and everyone can benefit from its practice. We who have studied and used this fabulous gift for ourselves have a responsibility to continue its work. Some teachers have practiced T’ai Chi Chih personally but have floundered when faced with pulling together classes. Other teachers are active for a while, then become inactive for one reason or another. Now most new teachers have the advantage of attending a teacher’s preparation course, during which their teachers help them become organized for teaching as well as giving them invaluable deep training in the movements prior to the accreditation course. As a result, more newly accredited teachers are successful.

But the point must be made that teacher training and inspiration to continue teaching does not end by being handed an accreditation certificate. Rather, the process is just beginning. One of the most important ways of helping yourself and your teaching to grow in T’ai Chi Chih is to stay in contact with other teachers–forming a regional T’ai Chi Chih teacher’s association, reading and contributing (experiences as well as subscriptions) to the Vital Force, auditing teacher training courses, and attending the annual teacher’s conference.

Avail yourselves of the opportunities to teach that are around you; avail yourselves of the understanding, support, and companionship of other T’ai Chi Chih teachers, with whom you have a deep bond that reaches beyond words or surface concerns; avoid the illusory notion that there is no market for your gift and skill, or embarrassment about previous inactivity as a teacher. No person has been accredited to teach T’ai Chi Chih who was not worthy or capable of being a good teacher.

Now is the time to renew your interest in and dedication to T’ai Chi Chih. As “light workers” in this New Age, we are stewards of a tool that is an invaluable aid to transformation of body, mind, and spirit. Most of us don’t realize it, but T’ai Chi Chih specifically is a KEY to the evolution of human bodies that must occur at this particular time of planetary energy shifts. People are searching for the results that T’ai Chi Chih practice offers, right now, in every sector of our continent and beyond. Through our willingness to teach T’ai Chi Chih, we can assist these essential changes and much healing of the planet can occur.

– Corinn Codye