Anita Vestal, Ph.D. is primarily an adult educator having worked for numerous universities as adjunct faculty, training specialist and author/researcher. She has practiced T'ai Chi Chih (TCC) since 2001, and taught it in Spanish and English in Costa Rica and the U.S. As a researcher, Dr. Vestal designed and conducted two observational studies involving TCC teachers and students investigating how practitioners relate the practice to their personal mind-body development. In addition she authored a Literative Review of all medical studies using TCC as the intervention prior to 2017.