Professor Cheng | Teachers Steven Hahn, MD 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 Steven moved to New York in 1977 and resumed study with Ed Young in Hastings-on-Hudson. He 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 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. Given 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 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. Peg began teaching when Ed asked her in 2005 to assist our former fellow teacher, Jim Depeyster, teach an off-site beginners’ class. Since then Peg has both assisted with and taught Beginners I and Beginners II (Intermediate) classes. She benefits from the learning environment to which teachers and students alike contribute. |
Will Morrison Will started his Tai Chi journey in 1978 studying under Maggie Newman and Ed Young. Will has benefited from the guidance of Liam Comerford, Lenzie Williams, Wolfe Lowenthal and his fellow students in Hastings. Will began teaching when Ed asked him to assist with teaching the Tai Chi Walk for the Seniors class at the Harmon Center and later to teach both the Walk and the Beginners class Monday evenings. He encouraged Will to pursue teaching at Stamford Hospital’s Sarner Center and the Greenwich YMCA and offer his own classes in Old Greenwich, which have become well attended. 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 is an avid sailor, a pastime rich in Tai Chi analogies. |
Stephen Cowan, MD, Presenter Stephen is a board-certified pediatrician with over 35 years of clinical experience working with children, including a subspecialty in Developmental Pediatrics. A longtime student of East Asian medicine and Taiji Quan, he practices what he calls "developmental acupuncture," encouraging the nourishing of life as a perpetual journey of change, recognizing the inseparability of mind, body and spirit and the intimate ecological relationship with our environment. Dr. Cowan is the author of several books including books on ADHD in children, circadian medicine (upcoming), and a book co-authored with Z'ev Rosenberg on Classical Chinese medicine mind/body mapping. With his teacher Ed Young, he collaborated on the translation of "Sage Principles, Discourses on Taiji Medicine by Master Cheng Man-ching." Stephen is also the author/illustrator of several children's books. Dr. Cowan lectures internationally and currently has a medical consultation practice in Westchester, New York. |
Class location James V. Harmon Community Center 44 Main Street, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY Walking directions from the Hastings-on-Hudson train station |