Being Present, Taking Time
T'ai Chi Chih is a mindfulness moving meditation practice that's easy to learn. The series of 19 movements and one pose helps circulate the Vital Energy, the Chi. Practitioners experience peace, improved health and many more benefits. Our free monthly e-newsletter offers inspiration between issues of the TCC quarterly journal, The Vital Force, in which teachers and students tell stories about ways they've benefitted from the practice. Live in the present with gratitude. – Justin F. Stone, TCC Originator From [...]
10 Ways to Know TCC Practice is Working
“…if lives are enhanced, that is enough and no more has to be said.” – Justin F. Stone, TCC Originator [T’ai Chi Chih] is not meditation, though it seems to bring the serenity of the most successful meditation – a serenity that teachers often notice in the faces of their students near the end of classes. Indeed some students who come to class under a lot of tension are then embarrassed to begin yawning, [which is] obviously a release of [...]
Letting Go as Part of TCC Practice
T'ai Chi Chih is a mindfulness moving meditation practice that's easy to learn. The series of 19 movements and one pose helps circulate the Vital Energy, the Chi. Practitioners experience peace, improved health and many more benefits. Our free monthly e-newsletter offers inspiration between issues of the TCC quarterly journal, The Vital Force, in which teachers and students tell stories about ways they've benefitted from the practice. "Trust your inherent, intuitive wisdom.” – Justin F. Stone, TCC Originator From a recent [...]
Breath & Emptiness
T'ai Chi Chih is a mindfulness moving meditation practice that's easy to learn. The series of 19 movements and one pose helps circulate the Vital Energy, the Chi. Practitioners experience peace, improved health and many more benefits. Our free monthly e-newsletter offers inspiration between issues of the TCC quarterly journal, The Vital Force, in which teachers and students tell stories about ways they've benefitted from the practice. Great secrets lie in the space between breaths. – Justin F. Stone, TCC [...]
Joy & Community
T'ai Chi Chih is a mindfulness moving meditation practice that's easy to learn. The series of 19 movements and one pose helps circulate the Vital Energy, the Chi. Practitioners experience peace, improved health and many more benefits. Our free monthly e-newsletter offers inspiration between issues of the TCC quarterly journal, The Vital Force, in which teachers and students tell stories about ways they've benefitted from the practice. Joy becomes our natural heritage. – Justin F. Stone, TCC Originator From a recent [...]
The Physical and the Spiritual in T’ai Chi Chih
Most people who come for T”ai Chi Chih lessons do it for physical reasons, either because of ailments or because they feel it will help them in the areas of energy, hypertension, etc. Thus, they think of TCC practice as a form of therapy, which it undoubtedly is. However, they may later find that they have derived much deeper– Spiritual–benefits, which they did not expect. How do these come about? How does TCC affect our Karma? We are the products [...]
TCC Inspiration Far and Wide
T'ai Chi Chih is a mindfulness moving meditation practice that's easy to learn. The series of 19 movements and one pose helps circulate the Vital Energy, the Chi. Practitioners experience peace, improved health and many more benefits. Our free monthly e-newsletter offers inspiration between issues of the TCC quarterly journal, The Vital Force, in which teachers and students tell stories about ways they've benefitted from the practice. “As awareness grows, so does joy.” – Justin F. Stone, TCC Originator Quotations [...]
Changing Consciousness
T'ai Chi Chih is a mindfulness moving meditation practice that's easy to learn. The series of 19 movements and one pose helps circulate the Vital Energy, the Chi. Practitioners experience peace, improved health and many more benefits. Our free monthly e-newsletter offers inspiration between issues of the TCC quarterly journal, The Vital Force, in which teachers and students tell stories about ways they've benefitted from the practice. “...every word spoken to you will be a signpost to guide you, if [...]
Deepening our Practice
T'ai Chi Chih is a mindfulness moving meditation practice that's easy to learn. The series of 19 movements and one pose helps circulate the Vital Energy, the Chi. Practitioners experience peace, improved health and many more benefits. Our free monthly e-newsletter offers inspiration between issues of the TCC quarterly journal, The Vital Force, in which teachers and students tell stories about ways they've benefitted from the practice. “Chi does not belong to us individually; rather, we tend to share in [...]
There Is Within You That Which Knows …
So why do we act as though we are ignorant? Because that inner innate wisdom–called Prajna–P-R-A-J-N-A–is covered up. The Vasanas–habit energies–so cover the Prajna that it becomes impossible to shine thru to the conscious mind–but it is there. All thru religious and spiritual literature we read “Know Thyself,” “The Kingdom of Heaven is within,” “The inner Guru,” etc., but we don’t believe this teaching and look outside ourselves, in the outer world we have created for ourselves to find someone [...]