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.
November 2020
The November 2020 issue is shaped by the pandemic, with Daniel Pienciak on panic and the Maximum Chi Program, Barbara Kristoff and others on Zoom classes, and Nancy Rolph-Johnson moving practice into Long Beach parks. Sandy McAlister traces the Intensive and its new requirement for teacher candidates, and Judy Hendricks describes the Albuquerque center’s new home.
Justin Stone argues provincialism outranks greed as our defining trait, recalling a German traveler pitying healthy children in a walled village near the Hong Kong border and an English couple in Benares.
Dr. Pauline Quimson-Miller, a medical doctor, psychologist and clinical hypnotherapist, describes weaving T'ai Chi Chih, Seijaku and Nei Kung into customized wellness programs for clients recovering from trauma, abuse and addiction.
Dr. Pauline Quimson-Miller
Tomball, Texas
Carmen L. Brocklehurst answers a friend whose practice had not shifted his pile of problems, using Hurricane Rita's aftermath in Louisiana to show how TCC opens the eyes to good amid destruction.
Carmen L. Brocklehurst
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Connie Shaw describes hearing the Chi Sound and feeling two warm torsion-rings encircle her t'an t'ien and heart during Pulling Taffy in Marie Dotts' Johnstown class, plus TheLea Brooks' vision of the sharing circle as a many-colored bonfire.
Connie Shaw
Johnstown, Colorado