| Hosted by | New Haven Museum |
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| Details | The historic Pardee-Morris House summer season will open with a Tai Chi class with Shifu Shirley Chock, at 2 p.m. Historic house tours 12 — 4 p.m. Free admission. The class will touch on Tai Chi philosophy (such as why being soft and fluid is more powerful than being hard and rigid), and Chock will guide participants through Tai Chi movements to help improve focus, strength, and balance. Participants are asked to wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Shifu Shirley Chock is the owner and executive director of Aiping Tai Chi. She trained under the guidance of Grandmaster Aiping Cheng since 2001 and was appointed as the school’s assistant director before taking over ownership in 2017. She has led the Aiping Tai Chi competition team to multiple grand championships in national and international competitions, including winning the 2006 U.S. Wushu Union Women’s National Champion title. She is a certified health qigong instructor under the Chinese Health Qigong Association and International Health Qigong Federation and studied wushu kung fu and mixed martial arts before transitioning to internal martial arts. She earned an economics degree from the University of Chicago and held a successful career in finance and administration leadership roles prior to taking over Aiping Tai Chi. She was the founding co-chair of Asian Network at Yale, an affinity group for Yale’s Asian heritage employees, and named Working Mother of the Year by Working Mother Magazine and Yale University. She is also a certified corporate wellness specialist. The New Haven Museum thanks its community partners: WSHU 91.1 FM, Avangrid: Lighting Up the Arts,The Howard Gilman Foundation, CT Humanities, and Alder Salvatore E. DeCola for supporting the 2023 summer season. |
| Admission | Free |
| Location | Pardee-Morris House |
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| More Info | info link |