13 years ago this month, the man who is now Sifu Bear asked me to teach him this Tai Chi martial art that I had learned. We met every week on Saturday mornings in a park just above the apartment building I was living in, just after he had finished his work shift. Due to an earlier back injury, he was naturally nervous about the Yoga, but I helped him through it, and he has been a “Yogi” ever since.

As I taught him the arts of Taijiquan and Hatha Yoga, he taught me the hard-style martial arts he had learned and earned two black-belts in. Those first classes were the birthplace of what would be Dragon Studios. Over these 13 years, Sifu Bear and I have been rewarded with many wonderful students, and watched people transform and improve themselves.

So here’s to lucky 13!

Namasté