Allison Deputy Bio

 

Allison Deputy has been a Tai Chi practitioner for over 20 years. She is the founder of MoonWillow Tai Chi & Wellness and serves the Northwest suburbs teaching Tai Chi, Chair Tai Chi, and Water Tai Chi. Her integrative studies have included chi/energy healing, dream analysis, developing intuition, meditation and the creative arts. She is also a writer who has published poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and is currently at work on a middle grade novel that has garnered agent interest. Allison has produced an audio CD, Meditation for Healing & Total Well-Being (2003), as well as instructional DVDs, Tai Chi: A Beginner’s Program (2005), Tai Chi: 108-Step Long Form Practice (2009), and is about to release Chair Tai Chi: Gentle Movement for Every Body (2011). Her forthcoming DVD, The Master Warm-Up is set to be filmed and released in early 2012

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 Certification:               Barnett Martial Arts 1994

                                    (Intensive Training & Student Teaching – min. 3 years)

                                    Yang Style Short Form – “Grasp Sparrow’s Tail”  (12-step)

                                    Yang Style Long Form (108-step)

 

Misc. Training:            Shuai Chiao (Chinese Wrestling/Throwing)

                                    Shaolin Five Animal Forms

                                    QiGong Detox Techniques

                                    Energy/Chi Healing

                                    Meditation/Visualization

                                    Ai Chi (Water Tai Chi)

                                    Senior Chair Tai Chi

                                    Fall Prevention