The Vital Force Archive

Saskia Davis lists inner peace as a contagious condition, with symptoms including loss of interest in judging others, frequent attacks of smiling, and an incurable inability to worry.

Tais Hoffman of San Clemente reports on an eight-week class session, three workshops including one in New Mexico, and a UC Irvine radio talk show where T'ai Chi Chih came up alongside networking.

April van der Hoogt reports on teaching T'ai Chi Chih twice daily at a week-long Dominican retreat on Contemplative Ways of Being, where one nun adapted the movements into "Our Father-T'ai Chi Chih".

Tais Hoffman describes practising at sunrise on the deck of an abandoned restaurant overlooking the harbor on the 4th of July, and the poem that morning inspired.

Justin Stone announces that the March Seijaku Course for teachers may be the last for some time, notes limited enrollment, and calls the previous year's course with its deep meditation excursions the high point of his teaching career.

Twelve new teachers accredited in late June under Steve Ridley are named and welcomed, with a note that the many new midwestern teachers meet fast-growing regional interest.

Norma Schaumann adds T'ai Chi Chih to a prenatal childbirth course, Christeen McCurran's mother teaches her first class to her sisters in Norway, and Pam Towne reports on the Denver teacher training and the $600 she was paid by a Long Beach computer company.

Justin Stone leads the October 13-18, 1987 accreditation course at the San Lorenzo Community Center, open to 15 prepared candidates at $295, with auditing teachers welcome and a $50 referral fee for coaches.

Justin Stone explains how students who come to T'ai Chi Chih for hypertension or low energy find deeper benefits, as balancing the chi erases the habit energies and tendencies that build karma.

Steve Ridley argues that teachers impart their own degree of conscious awareness, so keeping a daily practice new and alive is the surest way to serve students seeking health and spiritual freedom.