The Importance Of Attending A Teacher Conference

Greetings to all the teachers who are now at this conference. I’m happy to see you here, and I know that you will gain a great deal from being here – particularly those of you who come from isolated communities where you don’t get a chance to see other teachers doing T’ai Chi Chih. (Those of you who are isolated are apt to get into very strange habits.) Now you’re here and you’re going to be doing a lot of practice and you have a chance to check up on your TCC form and also to learn how to better teach TCC. For instance, you want to emphasis that TCC is done primarily below the waist – with the yinning and yanging, the moving of the hips and waist, and so forth.

This is not a pleasure jaunt. If it were a convention you’d wear funny hats, blow horns, and so forth. We’re deadly serious at the conference and under Sr. Antonia, I know you’ll get a lot of practice and see that what you’re doing is right. But you’ll also to learn more about TCC. Experienced teachers will tell you that the more they practice and teach, the more they learn and know about the individual movements and about the essence of TCC.

To those at this conference, I welcome you. But I would like to see a lot more people coming to the conference. Let’s hope more people register for next year, and the following year, and so forth – until eventually we get to the day when all accredited teachers attend the conference. And not only because it gives teachers a chance to make new friends and to learn more about what is going on, but mainly so that you can find that what you are doing is correct and that what you are passing along to students is correct.

So let’s hope that after you leave this conference you’ll have in your mind that you want to be ready for the next conference and the following conference and so forth. I don’t have to tell you about the bright future for TCC. Medicine is beginning to take it seriously and realize that it can use TCC. Many other things will become apparent as TCC gets to be more well known and people realize how it has helped them mentally, spiritually, physically, and so forth. So before I say goodbye to you, I want to say: Get as much as you can from the conference and look forward to the day when all accredited teachers will be at the conferences. Thank you.