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.
December 2001
The December 2001 issue announces, through Ed Altman, that Sandy McAlister and Pam Towne are now T’ai Chi Chih Teacher Trainers. Justin Stone corrects the decorative hand waving he sees in Bird Flaps its Wings. Kathy Starrick offers her September 11 practice to those across the river from her New Jersey home, and Linda Braga’s San Leandro class draws twenty-five students that day.
Hannah Hedrick, a teacher of fourteen years, noticed corrections given and received with new gentleness at the 2001 Conference, and asks readers to telephone one lapsed teacher and invite them back to a gathering.
April Leffler, accredited just ten months earlier, audits a weeklong New Jersey teacher training with 18 candidates and 16 auditors, watching practices fall apart and come back together.
Deborah Cole's untitled pyramid poem urges grounding in thought and deed, letting the river of life lead, and finding the power of all within, including life's unwanted gifts.