Updated Teacher Listings for T’ai Chi Chih Website

Database Update: Find A Teacher
Per your request, we are trying to make our website’s “find a teacher in your area” function a more effective tool to link prospective students to active T’ai Chi Chih teachers (taichichih.org/tai-chi-chih-teachers).

Teacher contact information on the website is currently self-reported. As such, much of this information is out-of-date. Bounce-back emails, disconnected phone numbers, and unreturned telephone messages are all too commonplace for students looking for a teacher. The feedback we have received is that this results in considerable, frustrating downsides for our community. To that end, Mary Ruiz has been painstakingly updating the database. The pared-down but more accurate and relevant teacher listing will appear in early January. Please help us keep our community’s teacher contact list current and “vital”: please check your listing for accuracy and promptly report any errors or changes. And, if you know that an accredited teacher has passed on, please notify us asap.

Website Teacher Listings
Teachers, your membership to The Vital Force includes a free listing on taichichih.org! It’s a 100% value-add, since your subscription covers the production of the journal, with no resources left over for the website. (Yes, the website is completely funded by tax-deductible contributions.)

Going forward, non-subscribers of The Vital Force will be charged $25 for a 3-year listing on taichichih.org/tai-chi-chih-teachers.

That’s one more reason to maintain your subscription! Please help spread the word to accredited teachers who are non-subscribers that there is even more reason to subscribe to The Vital Force journal and to keep your subscription current.

Year-End Giving & Matching Funds
The Vital Force maintains taichichih.org, which exists solely through the generosity of our subscribers.

Please consider a contribution to support the essential (and vast) outreach of the website. Donations can be made by credit card (via the green button on the homepage of https://taichichih.org) or by sending a check to The Vital Force, PO Box 92674, Albuquerque, NM 87199.

Gifts to The Vital Force are fully tax-deductible, always appreciated and used effectively to reach tens of thousands of practitioners around the globe.

Calendar
The online and print calendar is open to ALL teachers offering daylong, weekend, and other special TCC events. (At this juncture, keeping a current listing of ongoing classes is simply too time-consuming for our volunteers to maintain.)

A Prajna Request
April Leffler has requested that The Vital Force offer a regular space for T’ai Chi Chih teachers to express how Prajna has shown itself in their lives. If you write it, I’ll print it.

Happy Ending
On page 5 of the August issue, the last (punch) line of Doug Harned’s piece “Cucumber” was inadvertently left off. It should have read: “I’ll close with my favorite poem by Paul Reps: ‘Cucumber unaccountably cucumbering.’”