New York School of T’ai Chi Chuan

We have been teaching for over 35 years, preserving the lineage and tradition of this ancient art, while presenting it in a unique, modern, easy-to-learn method. For a sampling of our instructors’ wide range of experience offering T’ai Chi and Qi Gong to a broad spectrum of organizations around New York.

The hallmark of our school is team teaching. Our method of team teaching provides our students with a setting where the emphasis is on the clarity of the work. When two or more of our instructors work together in a single class, the students always have one instructor’s movements to follow while another instructor helps guide the class and follow up on specific needs of the group. Team teaching is also our approach to avoiding the distraction of an ego trip, a potential drawback in a school run by a single teacher.

As a teaching school, NYSTCC prepares and certifies it’s instructors through ongoing apprenticeships, starting with intensive trainings held each year by the T’ai Chi Foundation. This program of apprenticeships develops both precision in demonstrating the T’ai Chi form and a thorough grounding in the application of principles of T’ai Chi for health and well being. Continued study helps instructors maintain high standards of teaching, as well as consistency in method: students can study at any of our affiliated T’ai Chi Schools and still receive the same careful attention to the principles and details of the art.

Following an older model of T’ai Chi history, many of our instructors might have branched out as teachers starting their own schools. But by continuing to work together, our school gains much strength from the unity and shared goals of our instructors. This unity helps us preserve T’ai Chi as a living art, while providing a bedrock for consistent growth into the future, serving humankind through the study and practice of T’ai Chi Chuan.

Website: https://www.taichichuan.org/about-the-new-york-school-of-tai-chi-chuan/