Tai Chi has enriched my life on so many levels – physically and mentally. When I first learned – and started playing (yes, that’s what it’s called!) and teaching Tai Chi – my focus was on the physical movements. The slow, gentle moves are so peaceful, and based on nature – stand rooted like a tree, sway softly like tall grasses in the breeze, flow like water… I developed a deeper awareness of how I move, how I breathe.

Then over time, I realized the mental impact of Tai Chi – for example, better focus and concentration, feeling an inner calm more often, the mind-set of “go with the flow” – a different way of experiencing life, and moving with ease.

Please be sure to check out the section, About Tai Chi! No matter what reason brought you to Tai Chi, you can derive so many of the health benefits it confers (with practice). Thank you for joining me on this journey. Enjoy!

My passion and mission are to work (play) with older adults, with a specific focus on better balance – and falls prevention. Falling is not an inevitable part of aging – most falls are preventable! I taught the Tufts University Growing Stronger class for several years (when I ran Alice Hyde Medical Center's Community Wellness Program), and then embarked on my Tai Chi journey, beginning with the Tai Chi for Arthritis for Fall Prevention certification in 2015, and more recently the Taiji Fit certification in 2020.

I have been a NYS licensed massage therapist; an exercise physiologist in Cardiac Rehab and a Community Wellness Specialist/public health educator – both at medical centers; a technology trainer with Senior Planet from AARP; and currently adjunct instructor teaching an undergraduate online course at Champlain College, the Biology of Nutrition and Fitness, since 2015.

I taught Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention at the Malone Adult Center, Malone, New York, from 2015 through 2019, prior to the pandemic, then continued teaching in my new home town of Tupper Lake starting in 2022. I will be playing – and sharing – Tai Chi for the rest of my life.