I’m John Soares. I began my tai chi journey in 1994 with Suzanne Roth in Chico, California. I studied with her for a year and a half, and then moved away and my practice fell dormant.
I studied Dan Zan Ryu jujitsu for two years, and then came back to tai chi, this time for six months with Paul Gale and Yang style in Arcata, California.
I move to Mount Shasta, also in northern California, and began studying the main system I know and currently practice, the Old Yang Style of Tchoung Ta Tchen as taught by Gene Burnett in Ashland, Oregon.