Teacher News, Part 1

Hannah Hedrick, Don Peterson, Daryl Isenberg, Steve Everett and their students were filmed doing T’ai Chi Chih in a segment of a videotape on AIDS therapies. Hannah continues to teach T’ai Chi Chih to AIDS patients and is a board member of Test Positive Awareness (TPA) in Chicago, Illinois. On a recent TPA survey, 1/3 of AIDS patients who responded chose T’ai Chi Chih specifically as a highly effective AIDS therapy.

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Pam Towne re public access TV:

Part of my vision is to have a daily half-hour T’ai Chi Chih program on TV to provide an alternative to aerobic exercise. A first step is being taken thanks to a former student, Nadean O’Brien. She is taking a TV video production course, so we have access to the production studio and equipment at no charge! She has produced 2 half-hour shows of me teaching T’ai Chi Chih, and 4 more are planned. I recommend that other teachers check out public access TV programming opportunities in their communities.

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Great news from Dorothy Marks!

I thought you might like to know that interest in T’ai Chi Chih is growing rapidly here in Independence. After this article appeared in our local newspaper, the next day two classes were filled. Also, I was interviewed on a Kansas City radio station, a rock station with mostly younger listeners and that was well received. I will be on another radio station in a talk show with call-in questions. That will be for older listeners.