Teaching & Healing

From Dan Pienciak: Recently I received a letter from a teacher with whom I had lost touch. Fran is a fairly new teacher who was in one of my classes for many years. She reported that being a caretaker for family members had been consuming more and more of her time. She gave permission to share excerpts.

“I continue to give private lessons and practice daily… I tripped on the cellar stairs and went airborne… I broke my ankle in three places and dislocated my lower leg bone. The healing time was estimated at six months, but after the third week the x-rays showed amazingly fast healing. Tests indicated I had actually added bone density. I will be 70 this month – how miraculous is that? T’ai Chi Chih had been my only form of therapy. (I had stopped taking bone density medication many years ago.)

I was afraid that after all your efforts with me, you’d think I was a failure. But I was in Florida for a long time this summer… I taught elderly relatives TCC and will send them a video and book as follow-up. They are already feeling better and stronger. I realize now that it is not important to have so many jobs teaching, but rather that I am still practicing TCC and doing the best I can to give this miraculous gift to others.”