Vital Force: Celebrating Impact and Future Innovations

Toot Toot
We haven’t blown our own horn since our tenure began with the May 2007 issue, but when someone commented at Justin’s 92nd birthday party in November that, “Would it really matter if there was no more Vital Force,” we felt like it might be time.

Although we get lots of complimentary emails that we don’t publish, here’s one from Jocelyn Sampson, a devoted student working to become a teacher: “As I practice entirely alone up here on my lakeshore in Northern Ontario, I am hungry for The Vital Force. What a boon it is to be connected through this and the website. After reading Justin Stone’s words on the last front cover of The Vital Force, I became newly mindful of the weight transfer through the whole of my TCC practice. Hopefully this is the impetus for further progress. I am working diligently on enlarging my understanding of Bass Drum, just as I continue to work on softness during Rocking Motion (after having re-read the teaching tips in the May 2007 newsletter) that I downloaded on-line. I am so very grateful. Thank you for providing me with a point of connection to the TCC organization.”
[Editor’s Note: or non-organization, as the case may be.]

And from YouTube, where two instructional videos were posted by Good Karma Publishing and viewed by almost 19,000 people around the world in the last 12 months: “It’s so nice to watch you teach. I am Chinese but I know nothing about it. I didn’t believe those things about Chi before but recently I saw a few videos on YouTube. I strongly believe that the famous Chinese T’ai Chi masters would not lie to make [falsities] due to the Chinese culture background. Really appreciate your work here, which can pass one of the greatest human civilizations. Hope I could learn it.” – supersig

Renewing Subscriptions Online
You’ve asked, and we’re answering. Quite soon, you’ll be able to renew your subscription online with a credit card via a secure server. This should be particularly helpful to those who are piles-of-paper-everywhere-challenged and to all Canadian teachers.

You’ll also note that the website indicates when it was last updated.

Printed Annual Directory
The annual teacher directory is available for FREE online at taichichih.org/teachers.php. You can access teacher information by last name and by location (by state and country). Most importantly, the online version is updated every six weeks. In light of this (and the rising costs of printing the directory), the cost of the printed annual directory will be $15 for the 2010 version.