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 2013
The May 2013 issue marks a year since Justin Stone’s death with more than twenty Pyramid Poems and Larry Bloom’s imagined interview drawn from Heightened Awareness. Carmen L. Brocklehurst carries “come to a graceful conclusion” into ordinary endings, Pam Towne demystifies Seijaku for teachers, and Jim Shorr writes about Don, a retirement center resident who set aside his walker.
Diana Bahn describes, in the third person, her long-running free class at an assisted living facility, where canes, faded memories and old injuries wore down her early hopes until she found commonality with her elderly students.
Diana Bahn
New York, New York
Ann Rutherford recalls Justin Stone's Turiya meditation retreats in Albuquerque's South Valley and his two lessons, then shows how Seijaku's resistance section and weight shift help release karmic attachments.
Ann Rutherford
Albuquerque, NM
Kathy Starrick describes presenting T'ai Chi Chih to an osteoporosis support group, demonstrating Around the Platter, Carry the Ball to the Side and Push Pull as models for vacuuming, sweeping and clearing snow.
Kathy Starrick
Woodland Park, New Jersey
Lisa M. Otero recounts the first three years of her plan to build a self-sustaining T'ai Chi Chih community in Oxnard and Ventura, from fitness center and church classes to Seijaku and teacher prep.
Lisa M. Otero
Oxnard, California