Growth

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 benefited from the practice. 

…that energy is Wisdom. – Justin F. Stone, TCC Originator

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From the recent issue of The Vital Force:

Slowness: “We slow down. We turn our minds back to feeling. We train our minds to focus on what we’re feeling in our TCC practice inch by inch, moment by moment. We train our minds to focus on what’s happening in the soles of the feet. We must be calm to feel…. Little by little more awareness comes up. We cultivate that awareness. We grow it. We start to change, layer by layer.” – LJ, Minneapolis, MN

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Editor’s Note: Learn more from TCC teachers with more than 25 years of experience in the May issue of The Vital Force.

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Simplicity: “My practice keeps getting more and more simple…. My practice has also become slower over the years. There’s nothing more important for me in my practice than staying grounded and for me, grounding has become being vertically present, aligned, and relaxed. This is how I plug into the Chi. When we go too fast (especially in the beginning) we lose our vertical grounding. But mostly now I go slower because it’s so delicious.” – MD, Loveland, CO

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Growth: “The slow, simple practice of TCC has long been taking root in communities around the globe. This issue of The Vital Force journal highlights stories by TCC teachers establishing and nurturing TCC practices in cities, towns, and villages. Different geographies, myriad cultures, same practice. See “Growing TCC in the South of England,” “Mindfulness in Canada,” “TCC in Amsterdam,” “Promoting TCC Worldwide” and in a rural mountain community in Costa Rica, “TCC in Belize: A Cultural Exchange,” and more in the May 2025 issue.” – Many teachers

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Intuition: Empty space seems to be a vast continuum of energy, and that energy is Wisdom. Energy appears in many forms, including matter, and it’s always there for us to use in recharging ourselves — hence, T’ai Chi Chih. When we do T’ai Chi Chih our intuition seems to be greatly sharpened, and this is understandable as Energy and Wisdom are just different words. – Justin F. Stone

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