Patricia Wheeler
Lao Shi Trish Wheeler is an instructor in our Tai Chi for Health and Self Defense program.
Trish began her Martial Arts training in 1992 at the encouragement of her new husband, Tom.
Trish’s primary focus has been the health aspect of Tai Chi training– Chi Kung, meditation and musculoskeletal health. However, when called upon she can execute a highly respectable martial applications demonstration.
In 1998 she won a Bronze Medal for her Sword Form at the USA Wushu Kungfu Federation, International Competition in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1999 she added Chen Style Tai Chi training with Master Yang Yang.
Trish began Tai Chi instructor training in 2002 and in 2006 Sifu Bray awarded Trish the ranking of Lao Shi of Yang Style Tai Chi for Health and Self Defense.
Trish found a complementary art form to her Tai Chi studies in Iaido, (the art of drawing the Samurai Sword). She began training in Eishinryu Iaido in 2003 and currently holds the rank of Shodan.
Trish has two daughters who are quite amused at the fact that their mother is a Kungfu teacher and wields a Samurai Sword. Her grandchildren find it kind of cool.