T’ai Chi Chih Teachers’ Training: Albuquerque, June 1998

Fourteen new T’ai Chi Chih teachers were accredited in Albuquerque, N.M. in June 1998. Reflecting on this training after a three month interval I see a roomful of smiles. The day-time format created a more relaxed atmosphere – this training seemed more like a retreat. As usual, auditing teachers and trainees alike experienced the shift that takes place in every training, a deepening of our practice.

I’d like to extend a warm welcome to all these new teachers:

Lisa Leahigh – Albuquerque, NM
Dennis Zallen – Albuquerque, NM
Ann Rutherford – Albuquerque, NM
John Hull – Carmichael, CA
Carla Grant – McKinney, TX
Barbara Hall – Tuscon, AZ
Cindy Rondeau – Albuquerque, NM
Margie Wayner – Albuquerque, NM
Min Kantrowitz – Albuquerque, NM
Jeanne Marlowe – Sedona, AZ
Mary Jane Scurlock – Sedona, AZ
Jean Smith – Kansas City, MO
Margo Carpenter – Edmonton, Alberta
Kelly Nichols-Webb – Tijeras, NM
Sr. Marie-Ann Main – Bluff Durban, South Africa

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The teachers training week was like a Greek Odyssey. I began the journey thinking I knew how to move and what it was all about. Ed led me down T’ai Chi Chih roads I hadn’t realized existed. At the end of the week I realized my journey had just begun. T’ai Chi Chih’s spiritual foundations are unfathomably deep. Justin saw us move on the second day and on the fourth. In that short period of time, he said we’d improved 1000%. Thank you Ed for your teaching gift.

– Ann Rutherford

This week of Teacher Training has shown me that T’ai Chi Chih is more than I could have known. My teachers taught me the movements and prepared me for this course, but the intense training, the teaching skills and the supportive leaders have been inspiring. I’ll go home with lots of things to work on and to process, with the knowledge that T’ai Chi Chih is so much more.

– Jeanne Marlowe