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.
Arizona
Articles written by T’ai Chi Chih teachers and students in Arizona: their classes and practice groups, retreats and events, and personal stories of practice.
Charles Grantham, new to T'ai Chi Chih and a leadership development teacher of twenty years, draws parallels between circulating chi, the serenity of Seijaku, and the presence future leaders will need.
Charles Grantham
Prescott Valley, AZ
May Swanson recounts eight years of donated teaching at The Wellness Community in Phoenix and the Veterans Hospital, including a dying student who sat through class and felt the energy.
May Swanson
Phoenix, AZ
Anthony Pagliarulo recounts directing chi to his wife during her lung cancer treatment, learning at retreats that TCC's innate intelligence made the effort unnecessary, and later returning to teach at the Phoenix Wellness Community that first helped him.
Anthony Pagliarulo
Scottsdale, AZ
May Swanson recalls Justin Stone's joy song and finds joy in her Cancer Wellness Community class in Phoenix, where a student named Grace, living with Alzheimer's, remembers every movement.
May Swanson
Phoenix, AZ