Pytt Geddes (born Gerda Meyer Bruun; 17 July 1917 – 4 March 2006) was responsible for bringing
t'ai chi to the UK. She taught classes at
The Place in London.
She was born in
Bergen, Norway, the daughter of a successful businessman and politician who served in the Norwegian government as Minister of Trade. During
World War II, she joined the
Norwegian resistance movement.
After she and David Geddes married in 1948, they moved to
Shanghai, where she discovered t'ai chi. Soon after, the
People's Liberation Army
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took power there. Around 1951, they were able to move to Hong Kong, where she studied t'ai chi with
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, and then with his son
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People
*Choy, Cantonese Chinese or version of Cai (surname)
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*CHOY-FM, a radio station in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
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.
She became a friend of
Benjamin Britten and
Peter Pears.
She studied
psychology in the US and underwent
Reichian analysis in
Oslo.
Selected publications
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References
Further reading
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External links
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* ''Interview with Gerda Geddes''
* ''Tributes to Geddes''
1917 births
2006 deaths
Body psychotherapy
Psychotherapists
Tai chi practitioners
Norwegian female martial artists
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