About Instructor: Michael Ward

Cloud Hands T'ai Chi instructor, Michael Ward, is a senior student of Robert Smith. Mr. Smith was the first western student of Professor Cheng Man-ch'ing, a renowned master of T'ai Chi. Professor Cheng was not only a master of T'ai Chi Chuan, but was regarded as a "Master of the Five Excellences": medicine, painting, poetry, and calligraphy, in addition to T'ai Chi. Mr. Smith and Professor Cheng co-authored one of the first English language texts on T'ai Chi.

Michael Ward has been studying and practicing Professor Cheng's Yang style of T'ai Chi for more than twenty years. He has taught T'ai Chi to people from 9 to 90 years of age in settings as diverse as senior centers and major corporations.

For more information on either community based or workplace classes in T'ai Chi,
please call at 301-562-0992, email or write:

Michael Ward
P. O. Box 8026
Silver Spring, MD 20907