Tai Chi Helping Heal Trauma

Thank you to Jacqui Shumway, Tai Chi instructor and exercise therapist and researcher, and Kim Blair Woodruff, Tai Chi instructor at the Aurora Strong Resilience Center, for a powerful conversation about the impact of tai chi for individuals dealing with Post Traumatic Stress.

Jacqui has worked with survivors of both Columbine and the Aurora Theater shootings as well as with soldiers experiencing post traumatic stress. Kim, a survivor of the Columbine shooting who found healing through Jacqui’s Tai Chi classes, started a Tai Chi program at the Aurora Strong Resilience Center to help other’s who have experienced extreme trauma.

Jacqui and her husband, Joseph Brady, founded the T’ai Chi Project and the Living Younger Longer Institute in Denver, Colorado. Over the past 25 years, the husband/wife team has worked extensively with hospitals, universities, and the community to teach, research, and promote the benefits of T’ai Chi and exercise for lifelong health.

In case you missed the show, here’s the recording – 

Mind & Body in Motion with host Susan Chandler airs on internet radio station KZKOradio.com Tuesdays from 4 to 4:30 pm MT.