Lori Enloe is a compassionate tai chi and qigong instructor whose intuitive, nurturing teaching
style integrates her physical therapy and health coaching skills with the mindbody principles of Tai Chi. She focuses on teaching foundational principles of tai chi while adapting classes for all ages and abilities. She creates a safe space for connection and healing as students develop
midbody skills to center, align, strengthen, and balance their mind, body and spirit.
Lori is a compassionate tai chi and qigong Instructor whose intuitive, nurturing teaching
style integrates her physical therapy and health coaching skills with the mindbody
principles of Tai Chi. Lori began studying the ancient healing arts of tai chi and qigong in
1993 and she experienced many benefits including calming her overactive thoughts,
breath and body awareness and she created a spiritual community. In addition to tai
chi, Lori studies other integrative health practices including somatic movement, yoga,
and guided imagery.
Lori began teaching Tai Chi in 2000 and her purpose is to adapt tai chi for individuals of
all ages and abilities and to create a safe space for students to develop mindbody skills
to center, align, strengthen, and balance their lives. While teaching individuals and in
groups she observed that her clients experienced benefits of tai chi shown by research
including positive impacts on balance, posture, insomnia, cardiovascular health,
loneliness, chronic pain, stress management, anxiety and depression. She believes
this moving meditation is a moving medication due to all the health benefits.
Lori’s teaching style is informed by her both her Tai Chi studies including over five
hundred hours with teachers across the country, her training as a physical therapist and
other mindbody practices. She feels especially grateful to her Tai Chi teachers – the late
Tricia Yu (Tai Chi Health), Pat Culotti (Enhancing Balance Tai Chi) and Peter Wayne
(author of the Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi); and for her studies in somatic
movement with Meg Eginton and yoga training with Betsy Rippentrop and Marsha
Neiland. Her greatest teachers are her students who open her to new possibilities.
Lori is the owner and director of Breath and Balance Tai Chi. She offers in person and
virtual tai chi to individuals and groups. She is a frequent speaker on the health benefits
of Tai Chi to health care professionals and she offers Mindful Movement curriculum for
graduate students at the University of Iowa Department for Physical Therapy and
Rehabilitation Science. She trains tai chi instructors locally and nationally. She has a
certification and master’s in physical therapy, is a National Board-Certified Health and
Wellness Coach, Tai Chi Fundamentals ® Professional Course Instructor and a Certified
Exercise Expert in Aging Adults through the American Academy of Geriatric Physical
Therapy
“Tai Chi is the constant in my life that reminds me to “Be still as a mountain and move
like a great river” , as I navigate the calm and chaos of our ever-changing world.
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Benefits of Tai Chi
Tai Chi: What You Need To Know | NCCIH (nih.gov)
