Tai Chi Yoga
Meditation / Movement

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THEA 3210 Tai-Chi Yoga Movement (3) Several Sections

Tai-Chi Yoga incorporates the dance forms, martial applications, and energy work of Tai Chi, with the exercise, breathing, and meditation of Yoga.

Professor Bill Parkinson graduated from the University Of Utah Department Of Philosophy in 1972. He started Utah’s first accredited college courses in Tai Chi and Yoga at Westminster College in Salt Lake City from 1972 to 1974. Bill was initiated into Ananda Marga International Yoga Society in 1970, receiving the Title Yogi Viirishwara in 1974. Bill is listed as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher of the highest level, (5,000 hours of teaching experience before 2003), with the nationally accredited Yoga Alliance. He is a Tai Chi Chuan Master who has taught over 7,000 students this art.  Bill has sponsored World Tai Chi Day at the University of Utah since 2002.

Bill started teaching Tai Chi for the Modern Dance Department in 1974. He has taught both Tai Chi and Yoga for the Exercise and Sports Science Department beginning in 1979.  He currently is an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the Department of Theater, teaching Theater 3210 Tai Chi Yoga Movement since 1987.  Bill offers teaching certificates in both Tai Chi and Yoga. He also lectures and conducts workshops both on and off campus.