News & Media
External coverage is one way this work has been validated. Understanding Us has been featured on major national and local platforms including The Doctors, NBC’s Today Show, Fox 13’s Good Day Utah / Positively Utah, PBS Utah’s Contact, and in respected outlets such as Utah Stories, the Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, and the Associated Press. Below are selected features and interviews that reflect the Understanding Us focus on stability, dignity, and community-led practice.
In this 2025 Utah Stories feature, Bernie Hart’s decade-long free Tai Chi program in Salt Lake City is shown as a grassroots approach to homelessness that emphasizes balance, connection, and community where traditional systems have fallen short.
2KUTV CBS Salt Lake City - April 2025
Salt Lake City movement brings stillness, strength to community
FOX 13 NEWS UTAH - November 2024
A free tai chi class for Utah's homeless is almost 10 years old. Here's how the program is helping
The Salt Lake Tribune - July 2024
Tai chi class in Utah aims to change lives of people struggling with homelessness
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June 10, 2025
Mary Dickson
PBS Utah
Understanding Us: Balancing with the Unhoused
June 27, 2024
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune
Tai chi class in Utah aims to change lives of people struggling with homelessness
October 10, 2023
FOX 13 News Utah
Fox 13 News Utah
Free Tai Chi class helps homeless find stability in Utah
May 13, 2022
Saige Miller
Salt Lake Tribune
Street Tai Chi is fostering trust, clarity and togetherness for one of the most vulnerable populations.
February 7, 2020
3rd HOUR TODAY
Meet the couple teaching tai chi to the homeless
January 30, 2020
Travis Stork
The Doctors
Couple Teaches Tai Chi Classes for the Homeless
January 20, 2020
Al Sacharov
Utah Stories
Street Tai Chi Helping Homeless in Salt Lake City
October 23, 2019
Morgan Smith
Associated Press
Homeless people find friends, ease stress in tai chi class
April 5, 2019
Sean P. Means
The Salt Lake Tribune
Learning how Salt Lake City’s homeless find refuge and respect in the library inspired Emilio Estevez to make his new movie, ‘The Public’
March 7, 2017
Courtney Tanner
Salt Lake Tribune
Tai chi class offers SLC’s homeless a taste of stability amid the chaos
February 9, 2017
Alex Cabrero
Deseret News
Tai chi lessons bring exercise and hope for homeless
February 8, 2017
Alex Cabrero
Ksl News
Tai Chi lessons bring exercise and hope for Salt Lake City's homeless
