Tai Chi has proven benefits
Dr. Geoff Emry and Ted Hillson.
Ted Hillson is exactly what you picture when you think of a tai chi instructor: soft-spoken, wiry build with a beautiful gray handlebar mustache and ponytail to match. He moved here from Pennsylvania after retiring to pursue his love of snowboarding. In conversation, he admits that he can “get windy,” but also will drop pearls about how tai chi “encourages your existence."
Ted started doing karate at age 20 and then got into baguazhang, a type of Chinese boxing in which circle walking is an integral part of the training. After teaching martial arts professionally for about 40 years, he moved here and started taking tai chi classes “to get out of the house and … do something."
When the instructor declared she was moving back to California, she told the director that Ted was taking over the class. And that’s how Ted came to teach tai chi at the senior centers in North Idaho.
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