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.
August 2012
The August 2012 issue carries the community’s remembrances following Justin Stone’s death, among them Carmen Brocklehurst’s thanks for the messages sent to New Mexico, Sr. Antonia Cooper’s account of the revelations he entrusted to her, and Linda Watson’s story of his visit to an Albuquerque intensive. Reports from Seijaku trainings by Ann Rutherford and Karan Lee follow.
Carmen L. Brocklehurst thanks the TCC community for the messages of love sent to New Mexico after Justin's death, and quotes a summer student who feels close to him through his DVD.
Carmen L. Brocklehurst
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Phyllis Pohle, laid off from corporate America in 2008 and now studying Healing Touch and life coaching, names her next point of focus after a group practice challenge: feeling the t'an t'ien as the center of every movement.
Phyllis Pohle
Bridgewater, New Jersey
Stephen Ryter describes the 6:45 a.m. T'ai Chi Chih class he teaches to Blue Cross of Idaho employees, from a November sunrise over the foothills to the closing Cosmic Consciousness Pose.
Stephen Ryter
Boise, Idaho
Nancy Goff-Laipple credits regular practice with teacher Hope Spangler for steadier balance after breaking her right ankle twice, two avoided falls, energy in her palms, and a quieter mind.
Nancy Goff-Laipple
Prescott, Arizona
Joan Hutchison, diagnosed with spinal stenosis in 2009 and unable to walk, describes how intense physical therapy helped her avoid surgery and how T'ai Chi Chih became the one exercise she can still do.
Joan Hutchison
Eagle, Idaho
Students and teachers from Humboldt to Las Cruces send short messages after Justin Stone's death, recalling accreditation week meetings, dedicated morning practices, healing from scoliosis, and a line from Spiritual Odyssey about letting go.