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 2016
The February 2016 issue leads with Justin Stone on habit energies grooved into the brain and Sandy McAlister’s invitation to join World Healing Day on April 30. H.B. describes how the Six Healing Sounds eased pain that followed an assault at sixteen, and Sharron Clark, Elaine Wagner and Holly Ueda recount their Albuquerque accreditation week.
Carol Nelson-Selby, a former attorney, describes the joyous epiphanies that still arrive after years of practice, returning to the soles of the feet and the ounce-by-ounce weight shift she teaches beginners.
Carol Nelson-Selby
San Luis Obispo, California
H.B. recounts being raped at sixteen, the back pain and involuntary muscle spasms that followed, and the class with instructor Sharon Sirkis where the Six Healing Sounds gave her back herself.
H.B.
Maryland