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.
March 2001
The March 2001 issue marks the move of The Vital Force from the Bay Area to Albuquerque, with Linda Braga reporting the final mailing party. Justin Stone warns against applying monastic non-attachment to ordinary family life, Ed Altman describes relocating to Albuquerque to be near Justin, and Guadalupe Buchwald reports on the T’ai Chi Chih program at William Head prison.
Alex Rovang, a student of Donna McElhose, traces a life from the awkwardness of birth through growing softness, thinking in the feet and staying centered, toward a hoped-for graceful conclusion.
Jean Katus taught weekly TCC classes at a residential drug and alcohol treatment center for Native American adolescents, structuring sessions in three parts and gathering honest anonymous drawings and written responses from residents.
Beverly Weil's poem addresses a white butterfly whose fluttering wings are propelled by the softness of light and a song beyond time, drawing the watcher into the dance.