News about Teachers

CHRISTEEN CURRAN (Fargo, ND) recently contracted to teach 20 hours of T’ai Chi Chih to geriatrics, their families and staff at a health care center (Holistic Base Nursing Home) beginning after the August TCC Teacher Conference in California.

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MARY KIM CANDELL (Orinda, CA) taught her first class at home to friends and family, which led to a second class taught at home. Mary Kim has contracted to begin teaching TCC as of Fall ’86 through the Orinda Community Center.

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Orinda, CA

JEAN WILLIAMS (Oklahoma City, OK) has been busy presenting T’ai Chi Chih to a women’s business group, a 100-member singles group, and the Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. The Medical Center invited her to teach through an office of the U.S. Council on Aging (U.S. Department of Human Services). Her students will include patients from the cardiac rehabilitation center and the physical therapy center as well as hospital staffmembers.

Jean says she’s starting five new classes in September. “Some of my students are sharing rides from as far as 75 miles away–that’s how badly people want T’ai Chi Chih around here,” she reports.

You might think that all these speaking and teaching opportunities arose from a large promotional effort, but Jean found herself being sought out by all of the groups mentioned above. “All I did,” says Jean, “was place a very small ad in a local newspaper.”

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