I have been learning and practicing various Tai Chi and Qigong forms since the fall of 2011. 

I had broken my neck in a bicycle accident and could no longer do my usual exercise routines.  At the urging of my wife and daughter, I enrolled in a Yang-24 class being taught by Bill and Linda Pickett.  I learned the 24 form and then several of Dr. Paul Lamb’s Tai Chi for Health routines, all under the tutelage of Bill and Linda. 

I first learned Therapeutic Qigong, the 20-form version, in 2012, at a workshop with Wen-Ching Wu. I continued learning and practicing the 24-form version of the routine with the guidance of a Helen Wu DVD and later Bill Pickett’s instruction when he became a certified instructor. And for the past two years I have participated in George Picard’s Tuesday/Thursday evening Therapeutic Qigong class via Zoom.

I became a TCHI certified instructor and began teaching TCHI routines in 2015 at a local senior center.

I stopped teaching during the pandemic, but started again in the summer of 2021 at the main senior center in Knoxville. Most recently I began teaching a 24-Posture Therapeutic Qigong class at the center.