The Vital Force Archive
Eighteen years of The Vital Force (2007-2025), 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.
May 2007
The May 2007 issue opens with Justin Stone naming TEH, inner sincerity, as the teacher’s essential quality, and with KG introducing herself as the journal’s new editor. Service runs through the issue in Carmen Brocklehurst’s and Ann Rutherford’s pieces, while Judy George and Amy Tyksinski each describe how they teach Rocking Motion.
Sheila Leonard describes T'ai Chi Chih in Newfoundland and Labrador, where her students gathered at The Lantern for Justin Stone's 90th birthday and where teacher Dan Pienciak is expected for a July weekend.
Sheila Leonard
Justin Stone, in an excerpt from Gateway to Eastern Philosophy & Religion, contrasts devotional India with Buddhism and ties karma to the chi that builds habit energies.
Justin Stone
Anita Vestal describes a 12-question Student Reaction Questionnaire being piloted by a few teachers, given anonymously before the first class and at the last, and invites others to test it.
Anita Vestal