Min was born in a mountain village along the Yangtze River in southern China. She was exposed to Tai Chi at a young age but didn’t take a serious interest in it until she went to Peking University in Beijing. The campus of Peking university was on the site of a Qing Dynasty royal garden. Tai Chi masters, instructors, and students like Min would gather around the ancient trees in the early mornings to practice together.

After immigrating to the United States, Min studied art at UNC-Asheville and received her MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill. She was recruited by Hewlett Packard to Fort Collins and enjoyed a rich decade-long corporate career there before leaving for the nonprofit sector. Throughout this time, Min continued to practice Tai Chi and developed her own practice based on learnings from masters of various Tai Chi traditions in the U.S. and China, including Dave Mishlove in Fort Collins. In 2017, Min started a new chapter of her Tai Chi practice as an instructor. 

When the pandemic hit in 2020, Min started teaching Tai Chi outdoors. That has led to the FoCo Tai Chi community that continues to meet every Sunday to practice together. In her day-job, Min is the Executive Director of the U.S. Heartland China Association, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting people-to-people exchanges between the U.S. and China with a special focus on the American Heartland region.

John was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado. He spent his youth adventuring throughout the West with friends and family.  John is a retired Wildlife Biologist who spent 34 years serving the people of Colorado as a Game Warden, Senior Biologist and Statewide Hunting Programs Manager.  For his entire career John maintained a law enforcement commission and was also a certified FBI- Defensive Tactics and Arrest control instructor. He regularly instructed and certified over a hundred wildlife officers a year.

John began his study and practice of Tai Chi by learning the Long Form of Yang Style Tai Chi with Mark Posey of Colorado Tai Chi in Grand Junction, Co. in 1995. John continues to study, practice and teach the Long Form. 

In 2020, while on a bike ride, John saw a woman artfully practicing Tai Chi with a group in Edora park. He stayed around until after the group had finished and met the teacher-Min Fan. John asked Min if he could be a student, she graciously replied, “yes”,  and told him about her classes at the Other Club and the Gardens.  Over the next five years John learned the 8 and 24-forms from Min.  He now gratefully practices and helps Min teach these forms.

Chung-Fu Chang is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, educator, and somatic practitioner. 

Originally from Taiwan, where he danced professionally with the country's internationally renowned Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and Kaohsiung Contemporary Dance Company.

His global artistic journey includes choreography, performance, and teaching, with over 100 invited works for renowned dance institutions, festivals, and companies.

He has studied Cheng Man-Ching's 37 Tai Chi forms for years. He enjoys cooking, gardening, hiking, painting, and traveling. He is grateful to be part of this fantastic community group!