Training sessions can be scheduled for your school or organization.

In-school workshops include classroom demonstrations as well as professional development.Video conference workshops can be arranged for parents, children, teachers and other professionals. Individual workshops can cover:

• Short Tai Chi morning sessions to wake up the energy and get ready for the day
• Breathing sessions to use before tests and creative assignments to focus
• After lunch sessions to calm down and refocus
• After school sessions to release tension and hyperactivity
• Peer mentor programs to train older students to lead Tai Chi in the classroom with younger student.

Please contact us for individualized program, costs and possible dates.

Training Sessions and Professional Development programs for groups, meetings, classes can be done online.

Zoom allows us to train inane location through demonstrations and explanations.  When the participants stand up and move it is very powerful and effective. the distance makes no difference.  these sessions can include:

•  Two way communication with participants
• Flexibility in scheduling.
• Q and A
• Personalized instruction taking into consideration individual needs.
• It is almost as good as being in the same pace without the expense of travel.

Individual Online training can be scheduled.

• First you decide which of the 3 Tai Chi Moves sets you would like to focus on and place your order.  You practice five or more times to familiarize yourself with the moves.
• You will receive the Tai Chi for kids workbook/curriculum explaining the science behind Tai Chi, how to use it in a variety of situations, our goals, implementation, and understanding of Tai Chi.
• A Skype/Zoom call is scheduled to review the moves together, discuss the practice, explain the science behind the moves, and correct any movements that are not fully understood. (45 minutes)
• There will be a review of  the curriculum for the program, which will be emailed to you. This includes suggestions for implementation in a variety of situations.
• Answers to written questions about Tai Chi Moves for Kids via email to show the understanding of the moves, implementation, variations needed for a variety of situations.
• Receive your Certificate

Cost including materials (one set), two 45 minute skype calls and evaluation of answers to Certification questions …….$175

Cari Shurman, MAT, founder of WITHIN Wellness Center in Miami, is the creator of Tai Chi Moves for Kids©. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching degree and is certified as a teacher of Tai Chi and Qigong by the National Qigong Association, is a mentor of the Universal Society of the Integral Way and is a certified teacher of Five Element Qigong by the World Institute of Self Healing.

In her 30 years of teaching and traveling around the world, Shurman observed Tai Chi being used in China as a needed break for students between classes. She says she has found nothing more effective for students than Tai Chi to help them do better and feel better about themselves. She has worked successfully with individual children, as well as groups, teaching them Tai Chi skills and focused energy to help them cope with learning and attention disabilities and hyperactivity as well as improving their day to day concentration and performance. Autistic children have responded extremely well to tai chi movements.

Cari offers teacher training workshops in schools throughout the country.

Information on studies that have been done on Tai Chi and children.