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.
Carmen Brocklehurst recounts years of Justin Stone correcting her waist turn, one instruction at a time, until she held a chair, felt the hips trace an oval, and energy moved knee to knee.
Carmen L. Brocklehurst
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sharron Clark recounts her Albuquerque accreditation course, from learning how Justin Stone originated the form to teaching the movements' subtleties, and thanks teacher Daniel Pienciak and the Albuquerque TCC Center.
Sharron Clark
Quartz Hill, California