Welcome! My name is Bill VandenBoom and I'm a T'ai Chi* and Qigong* instructor. On this website I provide information for current and prospective students and for organizations that are thinking about starting a T'ai Chi class or a Qigong workshop.
I've been teaching T'ai Chi since 1990 and currently teach a unique version of the Yang Style, the Sun Style competition form, 32-step T'ai Chi Sword, and the Flying Rainbow T'ai Chi Fan.
I was first certified to teach Qigong in 1997. Since then I have been holding workshops in both Essence Qigong and Soaring Crane Qigong. In my T'ai Chi classes I now do a modified version of Essence Qigong before we start working on the forms.
Wellness programs are becoming increasingly popular as we understand the need to take an active role in improving or even just maintaining our level of health. Whether the wellness program is connected to a hospital or corporation or an independent center, T'ai Chi and Qigong are great tools for stress relief and for building and maintaining health.
*Please note that there are different systems of transliterating Chinese into the Western alphabet. The Wade-Giles system was most often used up until the the last few decades of the 20th century. Now the Pinyin system is predominant. Often, these systems use different Western spellings for the same Chinese character in their attempt to guide pronounciation. Below are some of the Chinese characters and their different Western spellings for the Chinese terminology used on this website.