T’ai Chi Chih Community Updates and Resources
Teacher Website Database: The drop-down menu on taichichih.org/the-teachers remains out of commission due to the website hacking last year. But the downloadable PDFs (also on this same webpage), with teacher names sorted alphabetically by name and/or by region, are available to all and updated every six weeks.
Gratitude For VF Volunteers: Special thanks go out to Mary Ruiz, Mary White, and Joyce Veerkamp – who maintain the database, subscriptions, and much more for The Vital Force and taichichih.org. Their efforts and indomitable spirits are heroic.
Facebook: Enormous appreciation, too, to Lisa Otero, the community manager for the T’ai Chi Chih Facebook page (facebook.com/taichichih), which has grown to a resounding 1200+ voices. Lisa poses questions about practice, inspiring quotations by Justin Stone, and sets the table to get a robust conversation going. Check it out.
Photos Of TCC Practitioners: Huge thanks to professional photographer, Andrea Cole (Minneapolis, Minnesota), for her super images of the local community practicing T’ai Chi Chih. They are being used in The Vital Force, our taichichih.org website, Pinterest, and Flickr. It’s all in the service of spreading the word about our practice.
TCC Experiences Needed: The Vital Force is your publication, and it will only continue to exist if enough readers write about their experiences with T’ai Chi Chih. (A typically expansive call for submissions returned only a tiny response of writings for this issue.) Don’t be shy about sharing. And please don’t think you have to be a perfect writer.
Vital Force Archives – Free To Download: Thanks to incredibly generous contributors, we were able to scan, post and offer bullet points for every issue available since The Vital Force began publishing in 1985. Visit taichichih.org/vital-force-archives to download free out-of-print back issues.
Single Back Issues: For issues published since 2007, if there are printed copies available, they may be purchased on taichichih.org/vital-force-back-issues. When an issue sells out, we will move it to the archive page. But not until they are sold out.
The 44-page May 2012 Justin Stone “memorial” issue is also available at taichichih.org/vital-force-back-issues for $15 domestic, $18 international shipping.
