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.
February 2009
The February 2009 issue gathers Justin Stone on the essence of T’ai Chi Chih and the effort of no-effort, alongside a group of detailed teaching pieces on Carry the Ball to the Side from Roberta and John Taggart, Lisa Otero, and Amy Tyksinski. Terry Jennings describes a seated class at a Honolulu memory care facility, and Kate Hollister updates readers on three UCLA research studies.
Sky Young-Wick argues that every T'ai Chi Chih teacher is a leader, drawing on her 50-year friendship with her former babysitter Marge to define leadership as sharing time, honesty and heart without ego.
Sky Young-Wick
Parkville, MO
Justin Stone insists that benefit depends on how you move: flowing from the t'an t'ien with no effort in shoulders or arms, correct yinning and yanging, and no striving to please the teacher.