Cari has been practicing, studying and teaching Qigong since 1995. She studied with Master Ni Hua Ching at the Integral Way Society in Los Angeles, with Master Bin hui He at the World Institute of Self Healing in New Jersey, at the Hebei Medical Qigong Institute, Beidaihe, in China in 2007 and 2011. She developed her program for children in the late 1990's and has been training teachers to implement the Tai Chi for Kids© program for over 25 years. She has trained teachers to use Tai Chi for Kids in the classroom all over the US, in Canada, Brazil, England, and in South Africa.