About ...            

 Practicing since 2000.  Maryland State Licensed Massage Therapist.. 
Maintain annual CEUs and professional memberships.  

Have taught T'ai Chi and/or Yoga at Peninsula Regional Medical Center (Salisbury, Maryland) since 1998. Other teaching positions include Atlantic General Hospital (Berlin, Maryland), Deers Head State Hospital (Salisbury, Maryland), Dove Pointe Center for the mentally and Developmentally Disabled, Berlin Rehab and Nursing,  Worcester County Parks and Recreation Department, Wicomico County Parks and Recreation Department and many other eastern shore community and corporate locations.

 Included in a 1991 T'ai Chi/Taiji instructional video, "T'ai Chi Chuan - Learn at Home with Dr. Ben Fusaro". The production has been re-named and re-released as a DVD titled "T'ai Chi One".  This DVD can be borrowed from our local county libraries.
                                                                                                                                                                                    
  Maintain annual CEUs (Continuing Education Units) with AFPA (American Fitness Professionals Association), and a plethora of studies with independent teachers and masters of T'ai Chi, yoga, fitness, massage, holistic and inclusive health, and energy work.  Certified to teach Hatha Yoga and Yamuna Body Rolling (a self-massage and physical maintenance practice) and three, past, personal training certifications.

Previously Certified as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician).

Hold 'Certification of Completion' for 90 hour Physical Therapy Aid course.  There is no 'P.T. Aid designation in Maryland. 
 
 Worked at Peninsula Regional Medical Center 15 years in Medical Records, satellite doctors' offices and finally, finance.

 On Atlantic General Hospital's Visions for Total Health  community education committee for 5 years.        

  Have done a lot of running including a number of foot marathons; plenty of Bike centuries and metric-centuries.  Enjoyed substantial years of dancing, choreographing and teaching; all genres. These experiences help me relate to a wide variety body needs and fitness levels. 

  ~    In the off season (winter for me), try to do some yoga/taiji travel-teaching in warmer climates, usually Mexico or the Caribbean. 

  ~    Particapated in Medical Missions to three villages in Cameroon, Africa.                      
                                                 
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  .                    You can't take a pill for laughter.