The Vital Force Archive

Ron Richardson's workshop group named the obstacles to offering TCC in church facilities, including suspicion that it is evil, and recommended building trust and talking concretely about balance in prayer, relationships and daily life.

Lisa Thorburn's linked pyramid poems thank the 2005 Albuquerque conference, look ahead to gathering in Minnesota, and close on Justin's reminder that it is not what you move but how.

Pilar Triggs's pyramid poem recounts meeting Justin Stone for the first time by the elevators, sooner than expected, and being left dumbfounded and speechless by his presence.

Deborah Cole pairs a rhyming verse about drinking in the Essence of Joy and finding it goes deeper with each repetition, alongside pyramid poems on time, gratitude, pain and healing.

Nancy Werner-Azarski describes how 27 Minnesota teachers turned a conference planning weekend into a working retreat, using Justin Stone's Spiritual Odyssey for discussion and solving a hotel problem along the way.

Margo Carpenter introduces the seven candidates who completed the September accreditation week at the Providence Renewal Centre, from a Toronto art therapist to a Saskatchewan quilt shop owner and retreat host.

Nancy Lecraw describes how twenty-five northern Illinois teachers and students formed a Circle of Gratitude for Justin Stone's 89th birthday, with Native American readings, flute music, a full practice and tea.

A report that 87 teachers responded to the TCC Teacher Survey 2005, with results promised online in April 2006 and suggestions forwarded to Antonia, Sandy and Pam.

Teachers responding to the 2005 TCC survey give Lorraine Lepine their practical advice on chairs, hearing problems, remembering birthdays, PACE arthritis training and slow repetition for students with Parkinson's.

Judy Hendricks led 155 children through Rocking Motion and the Six Healing Sounds at a park on International Day, and lists what she learned teaching seven classes at a Montessori charter school.

Sr. Antonia Cooper accompanies Judy Tretheway to three classes in B-Yard at New Folsom prison, where one inmate says the chapel and TCC is the only place where the yard's racial and religious divisions cease.

Judy Tretheway recounts Sister Antonia's visit to three Folsom prison classes, where a quote from Spiritual Odyssey, talk of trafficked women, and coaching on releasing arm tension shifted the room.

Jack, writing from prison, describes the suspicion that treats every volunteer as a government agent, and how Judy's T'ai Chi Chih classes returned him to a calm, undefended sense of his true self.

Justin Stone distinguishes T'ai Chi Chih from the martial arts that share the name "Supreme Ultimate," citing textbook translations into Spanish, Italian and French, a letter from the American Medical Association, and his conviction that doctors will one day refer patients to classes.

Carmen L. Brocklehurst assigns Justin Stone's Abandon Hope as weekly homework in her intermediate class, including the eleven-year-old boy who explained abandoning hope as swimming away from a leaking boat after his sister died.

Hannah Hedrick describes pairing pursed-lip breathing with the weight shift for students with COPD, modifying Light at the Top of the Head, and bringing TCC to Red Hat Society women, cancer and HIV/AIDS groups.

Ron Richardson stayed an extra day after the Albuquerque teacher conference, rode the tram and visited Santa Fe, then slept through his connection and got off the plane in Dallas thinking it was Little Rock.