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Liam Comerford, Guest Instructor Liam is a retired member of the IBM TJ Watson Laboratory research staff. He brings a principle-based perspective to Tai Chi study. Liam began his study with Cheng Man-Ching in February of 1967. After Professor Cheng’s death in 1975 he continued his study with Professor’s senior students. These included Ed Young, Ben Lo and Liu Hsi Heng. Both Ed and Ben gave Liam permission to teach. Read moreLiam teaches advanced form correction, push hands, Tai Chi Jian (sword and fencing) and Tai Chi Chiang (solo and two person lance exercises). Liam has experience in Wado Ryu Karate, Kodokan Judo, Ueshiba’s Aikido, international sport fencing (foil and epee), Hatha yoga and zen meditation. |
Steven Hahn, MD, Instructor Steven is a Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, an Attending Physician and Director of the Primary Care Track of the internal medicine residency program, Director of the Clinical Ethics Consultation Service, and a primary care physician at Jacobi Medical Center where he has practiced since 1980. Steve attended Ed Young and Natasha Gorky Young’s first Tai Chi class in New Haven in the winter of 1971. He continued to study Tai Chi in New Haven with Wolfe Lowenthal who took over Ed’s New Haven class until moving to New York in 1977 when he resumed study with Ed Young in Hastings-on-Hudson. Read moreHe has also studied with Ben Lo, Lenzie Williams, Maggie Newman and currently with Liam Comerford and the other instructors and students of the Hastings Tai Chi Study Group. Steven received permission to teach from Ed Young when Ed asked him to lead a Tai Chi class at the Katonah Museum of Art in June of 2012. He has led beginner/intermediate classes in Hastings with Peg Morris. |
Carolyn Hoffman, Instructor A retired Physical Therapist, Carolyn brings her experience into her practice of Tai Chi. She began studying Tai Chi with Ed Young in 1990, continues studying with Liam Comerford, and attended workshops with other teachers in the Professor's lineage. Read moreGiven permission to teach by Ed Young in 2015, she taught Tai Chi for improving balance and decreasing the risk of falls at WestMed (medical group) to their senior patients. She instructs beginner classes for the Hastings Tai Chi Study Group. Continuing a program that Ed Young provided for the Hastings Community Center, she is also an instructor in classes emphasizing Tai Chi principles, basic movement patterns, and walking. Carolyn is also an avid hiker. |
Peg Morris, Instructor Before retiring, Peg taught literature to undergraduates and master’s degree students, as well as teaching college classes at the maximum security Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Her first class with Ed Young was in 1984, and along the way she has benefited from the teaching of Ben Lo, Maggie Newman, Wolfe Lowenthal and Liam Comerford. Read moreAfter being given permission to teach by Ed Young, she assisted with and is now teaching Intermediate Classes. In addition to practicing Tai Chi, Peg practices Advaita meditation. |
Will Morrison, Instructor Will started his tai chi journey in 1978 studying under Maggie Newman, and then Ed Young. Will has also benefited from the long term guidance of Liam Comerford, Lenzie Williams and his fellow students in Hastings. Ed first asked Will to assist and then teach the Tai Chi Walk class in Hastings and later the Beginners class. Read moreHe has taught in Connecticut at the Sarner Center in Stamford Hospital and the Greenwich Senior Center. Will had several professional careers: industrial designer, designer of sets and lights Off Broadway, Head of Jim Henson’s Muppet Workshop, and at IBM Research as a developer of internet based services and later with the Software Group for remote collaboration tools. Will offers beginners to advanced classes in Old Greenwich, CT where he resides. He is an avid sailor, a pastime rich in tai chi analogies. |
Class location James V. Harmon Community Center 44 Main Street, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY Walking directions from the Hastings-on-Hudson train station |