About Chris

Christopher Anderl’s approach to teaching Tai Chi and Chi Gung is unique in many ways.  He combines a great deal of formal academic training with practical experience in body, mind, and spirit healing and integration techniques.  Chris attended Whitman College, Stanford University, and the California Institute of Integral Studies while completing degrees in Psychology and Asian-Comparative Philosophy and Literature.  He has done extensive research in cross-cultural perspectives on Healing, Nature, and Ecology.  Raised in the mountains of Idaho, and having traveled and lived throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, he has over 30 years of experience in diverse biocultural regions of the Earth.

He teaches from the perspective that we humans are Nature attempting to know itself, and that Tai Chi and Chi Gung are some of the most effective means of doing so.  Embodied Ecology is the term he has created to describe this evolutionary and revolutionary approach to natural health, growth, and awareness. Ecology must become what we are, rather than something we only think or worry about.

Chris practices what he teaches every day, and has found the practices on this DVD to be highly effective healing tools for neck and back injuries (including arthritis), stress relief, chronic fatigue, allergies and asthma, mood imbalances, and weight fluctuations.

He shares these practices only because he has daily personal experience (shared by the millions of others who practice Tai Chi) with their outstanding effectiveness.  He is also an accomplished and published poet, and enjoys spending his free time outdoors walking and observing the natural world.

To be as happy and free as a cloud,
a butterfly,
a tree,
as enduring as the mountain,
and flowing like the stream
to the Sea.