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.
May 2023
The May 2023 issue returns again and again to the graceful conclusion, with Daniel Pienciak, Carmen Brocklehurst, April Leffler and Lorraine Lepine each describing the close of a movement. Justin Stone’s spoken word transcriptions recall the 1974 first class, and senior teachers Ann Rutherford and Tara Stiles answer questions about their years with him.
Three 2002 letters from Mary Wichmann asking Justin Stone if she could come to Albuquerque to learn meditation, through his invitation to her June travel arrangements.
Terry Gay Puckett recounts how student Denise Richter contacted a San Antonio Express News columnist without telling her, and the resulting article filled her senior center class and a waiting list.
Terry Gay Puckett
San Antonio Texas