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Please join the almost 450-person-strong group on facebook.com – where students from around the world can ask questions, make comments, and find support and inspiration from others who are also practicing T’ai Chi Chih. We get detailed reports showing anywhere from 372 to 534 people visiting the page each week. Teachers, add your voices of experience. And please tell your students about it. Join the fun.

A Gift Horse Arrives In The In-Box (In The Nick Of Time)
Even though this issue lacks as much geographic diversity as one would hope for in an international journal, I’m grateful to the TCC practitioners who wrote at the last minute. One day prior to the deadline, only two unsolicited submissions had been received. Additionally, only two out of forty people emailed earlier in the month had promised to write by the deadline. Justin and Carmen always write. Sandy, Antonia, and Pam have been given columns, so they have to write; I have to write pieces for the VF and GKP. “Events” always come through with one article each. That would inch things up to 17 articles. But issues usually have 35 to 47 articles. There were some older submissions from the last few years to draw upon. But I fully expected to publish an edition half-filled with Pyramid Poems. For this issue, there are no writings on the movement Pulling Taffy, Variation #2, Wrist Circles – except the short piece that Amy Tyksinski always submits. Perhaps this section isn’t that valuable to readers. Neither are there articles on Justin’s quotation: “When the Chi flows freely and is balanced, the Cosmic Rhythm begins to move us” which is only suggested to help people organize their thoughts around something (because people said they wanted to write but just didn’t know what to write about). Perhaps a theme is unnecessary to jumpstart inspiration. Whatever the case, there are fewer than a handful of unpublished articles waiting for a place in the next issue, so unless you are looking forward to 12 pages of Pyramid Poems, please do write. Fellow practitioners are eager to hear what each of you wants to share.

Teacher Resource URL
Teachers: the following resources are posted on a non-public section of taichichih.org website for you to use freely: a press kit from Good Karma Publishing to help you promote classes; sample brochures; information on getting replacement teaching certificates; guidelines for teaching TCC to people with COPD and to seniors; and important lists of other teachers who are teaching to specialized populations. The latter provides great networking opportunities for those who can’t attend conferences. To be reminded about the hidden URL, send an email to changes@taichichih.org.