The Vital Force Archive
Forty years of The Vital Force (1985-2025), the journal of the T’ai Chi Chih community. Search for a word, a teacher, a movement or a place, or browse by category and topic.
Featured Article
Feature articles from The Vital Force: longer pieces by T’ai Chi Chih teachers and students on practice, teaching, health, community and the teachings of Justin Stone.
Carmen L. Brocklehurst's notes on the 1991 T'ai Chi Chih Teachers Conference in Minnesota, from the pod living arrangements to the unhurried four and a half days of sharing with Justin and Steve.
Carmen L. Brocklehurst
Albuquerque, NM
Susan Webster describes hosting Justin Stone's Heightened Awareness Seminar in San Diego and the teaching that followed: a weekly Naval Hospital employee class, a senior high-rise contract, and fuller classes.
Therese Goetz urges that future teacher conferences balance inner development with outreach, and objects to returning to the secluded Vallombrosa retreat after the public practice in Albuquerque's Old Town Plaza.