THE TEACHER

During 2006-7 I attended the BTCCA weekend workshops with several of my Scottish students, as well as a term of evening classes with Grandmaster John Kells along with some of my colleagues from The T'ai Chi Centre. With permission from my teacher, and purely for my own interest and research, I attended a year of regular London workshops with the Chen Style Master Wang Hai-Jun, with whom I learned the Chen Short Form at Taichi Caledonia in 2007. At these monthly classes we studied the Lao-Jia (Old Frame), push hands and silk-reeling. I moved back to London in 2007 and was asked to take over a long-running class in Hackney by T'ai Chi Master Steven Moore, when he emigrated to Israel. Since then I started teaching 121 sessions with private students and small groups. My senior students took over instructing beginners' classes in Aberdeenshire and I visit monthly to teach them and to run workshops.

I was invited to teach T'ai Chi to the physical theatre students at Central School of Speech and Drama from January Š March 2009. Great River also runs a lunchtime class for Amnesty International as well as providing occasional demonstrations and special classes for local schools and other organisations, motherÕs groups, and firms such as Procter and Gamble. I attended four weekend UK workshops held by Canadian T'ai Chi Master Sam Masich. I attended Hanover Push Hands Meet 2008 and Taichi Caledonia in 2007, 2008 and 2009. I shall be attending in 2010 with colleagues from my teacherÕs school.