Moving well

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. 

… flow “slow motion in a dream”. – Justin F. Stone, TCC Originator

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From the recent issue of The Vital Force:

Sharing: “Sharing TCC with others is the best part of this practice — maybe even better than teaching me, finally, how to slow down… The calm I can summon while moving softly and with continuity has become a lighthouse where I’m a more settled, happy person. But as wonderful as the personal aspects of TCC are, the impact on my students maybe even better. They’ve developed a community that pulls them back to class year after year and their camaraderie has forged real friends. It can be difficult to make friends as we age, but having a common practice draws interesting folks together.” – SR-R, Seal Beach, CA

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

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Hosting: “I’ve hosted two Intensives and find it’s more of a reawakening, a re-awareness, a renewal of my practice. Repetition leads to a habit; a habit can lead to not paying full attention. I like to come to my practice and teaching as if it’s the first time, with my entire being focused solely on that moment. Attending an Intensive can be a catalyst to brush away the dust of habit-energies and reinvigorate joy and awareness. Observations and corrections help us refine and rejoice in TCC as a lesson in staying in the now.” – CP, Bloomington, NJ

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Refining: “After attending an Intensive, I left inspired and confident, with a deeper TCC practice that has kept evolving. The mix of new and longtime students with teachers and teachers-in-training was also helpful. There were several movement tweaks, each profound in their application and practice. Each of these teachings has created more balance, depth, and feeling in my practice. With each passing day, I feel the difference in the developing Chi.” – DB, Albion, NY

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Beginning: Teachers should remember that the most important thing with beginning students is to see that they move correctly. Once they learn how to flow ‘slow motion in a dream,’ there is no problem in teaching them the [TCC] movements. I hope teachers keep this in mind and concentrate, in the beginning, on getting the students to flow with softness and continuity. – Justin F. Stone

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