Teacher Biography: Carolyn P. Shaw

Carolyn P. Shaw, Albuquerque, NM

Carolyn Shaw is an accredited T’ai Chi Chih teacher and has taught T’ai Chi Chih classes and seminars throughout the state of New Mexico and internationally since 1979. As a School Counselor she gave seminars to the counselors of the public school system at their annual and bi-annual conferences as well as her colleagues in the Albuquerque Public Schools system. She taught teachers in her school as well as made presentations during “wellness week” to the students.

During a year in which she lived in Singapore she taught T’ai Chi Chih to a group of the wives of faculty members at the National University of Singapore. During a year in which she lived in Spain she demonstrated T’ai Chi Chih to her colleagues at the University of Madrid. In Belgium and Holland she shared the form with eager relatives and friends.

During the six years in which she spent assisting the growth of the Center for Positive Living in Albuquerque she became ordained as a Divine Science Minister and taught T’ai Chi Chih classes regularly. Whether she is actively teaching or not, Carolyn does her T’ai Chi Chi daily with great benefit. She has never approached T’ai Chi Chih as a business but rather considers T’ai Chi Chih a “grace note” in her life which she shares with beautiful people seeking a deeper relationship with the truth of themselves.

Carolyn has a Master of Arts degree (M.A.) in Guidance and Counseling which she earned in 1975 from the University of New Mexico and she worked as a professional counselor for 14 years. In 1993 she earned a Master of Arts degree in Spanish and is presently working as a Spanish teacher at the Technical Vocational Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico.