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.
Janet M. Oussaty recounts a year of TCC expansion at Kean University, from a student-run practice group and credit courses to a 100-person session at the AAHPERD national convention in Cincinnati and a campus cable television interview.
Janet M. Oussaty
Richard Detert describes the insight he had at the 2001 Minneapolis accreditation: watching others practice misled him into enlarging his movements, when smaller, compact motion actually feels freer and lets chi express itself.
RoSanna Braccioforte met Justin Stone at the Moraga conference open practice and learned from Noel and Justin that her nine-movement practice ran too fast and that wind at her Bay shore spot could harm chi.
RoSanna Braccioforte
Student of Sandy McAlister