Akitchitay is a descendant of the Taino People from the Caribbean, The Cherokee People in North Carolina. He spent many years working under several medicine pathway teachers learning to hold ceremony and serve people who need spiritual and physical health and wellness. Akitchitay has family lineage of medicine tribal people who have passed the knowledge of the indigenous way down the generations of practitioners.

Martial Arts from China, known as Kung Fu or WuShu is the origin of Tai Chi Chuan and Health Rejuvenation practices. For the past 35 years Akitchitay Studied under Sifu/Master Joseph Eager who resides in Phoenix Arizona. The extensive practice of Chinese Martial Arts has given him the knowledge and experience needed to share the great art of Tai Chi Chuan offering the opportunity for participants to regain their health and mobility.