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.
June 1995
The June 1995 issue has Justin Stone contrasting Zen’s arduous koan work with T’ai Chi Chih’s easier route through the Chi, and Leona B. Dees reporting a 173 point drop in her triglycerides during a quarter of Seijaku class. Donna Iverson teaches seated practice to residents in their nineties at Wake Robin, and Dan Fiore recounts a desert retreat above Tucson.
Three quotations from Dr. Vasant Lad, Steve Ridley and Yogi Pranananda on free consciousness taking individual form, closing with Ridley's short verse about the observing Self.
Meara Joy Norice, accredited in 1990, writes from a teacher training in Mahwah hosted by Sr. Antonia Cooper, explaining why she commits to auditing at least one training a year.
Meara Joy Norice
Burlington, VT
S. Francis A. Kay writes on Earth Day, the seventh anniversary of her certification by Justin Stone, about living in the now, the energy between her palms gathering at the t'an t'ien, and the teachers her Wholistic Growth Resources program has sent out.
S. Francis A. Kay
Little Falls, MN
Donna Iverson describes the beginning class she led Saturdays at Wake Robin Retirement Community, where students in their nineties practised seated, balance improved, and one woman suddenly felt the ground beneath her feet.
Donna Iverson
Burlington, VT
Virginia Shilson invited seven students to a Saturday morning guided practice session led by Jan Arrott, then hosted a potluck lunch where companionship mattered more than food.
Virginia Shilson
Albuquerque, NM
Carole Jordan's short poem binds past, present, future and eternity into one serene unity of body and mind, with yin and yang encircling youth and gossamer age forever.
Carole Jordan
Student of Della Alberson, Bullhead City, AZ