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In 2020, life as we knew it changed.  As a Board, our focus turned inward to improve our newly designed website.  As instructors, we all got creative in connecting with class participants and neighbors to help them cope with quarantine mandates. Isolated from our tai chi community, we all struggled …

It had been a very full week of Zoom chi. On Sunday I was a panelist in the Community’s Professional Development event ‘How to Engage Your Participants Virtually”. It was an inspiring experience,  with more than fifty participants and lots of hard-won insight shared by the other two panelists, Community …

As tragic as the Covid-19 pandemic has been, it has also given many of us an opportunity to pause, reflect and prepare for the future. For the past few months, your USTCC.ORG Board has been busy planting seeds in preparation for making our website more effective and user-friendly.  The Community’s …

I want to share with you my joy in teaching TCA on Zoom. A few months ago I did not think I could do this. Then I took the Zoom training offered by the USTCC.ORG and felt like I could manage. With the help of that class and my friend …

I’ve been teaching at a Senior Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee for seven years. When they were closed due to the pandemic, I knew I had to find a way to continue classes to keep these folks healthy. I have a wonderful park nearby that I knew could work out. We …

Looking back over this last year, from the realization that a new virus was starting to spread rapidly through months of social distancing, brings so many emotions to the forefront.  March was the true beginning of local social distancing here in West Virginia.  Our YMCA put 6-foot guidelines in place …