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Article: TAI CHI BOOK SPOTLIGHTS LOCAL INSTRUCTOR.(LIFESTYLE)
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- The Capital Times
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- August 11, 2003
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Byline: Mary Bergin The Capital Times
When Tricia Yu began teaching tai chi in the mid 1970s, it was a great magnet for hippies, the young and alternative thinkers in Madison.
It has since become an acceptable way for almost anyone - including athletes with injuries and nursing home residents - to enhance mental balance, inner harmony and physical fitness.
Tai chi is called "yoga in motion," and Yu was one of the first to integrate it into a medical model for exercise therapy. She did this with occupational therapist Diane Harlowe of Madison in the early 1980s, as a way to help people with rheumatoid arthritis, and their method to ease stiff ...