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.
Canada
Articles written by T’ai Chi Chih teachers and students in Canada: their classes and practice groups, retreats and events, and personal stories of practice.
Linda F. McKenzie, who works with women and children who have been abused, recounts a student sexually abused as a child finding positive, loving contact with her body through T'ai Chi Chih.
Linda F. McKenzie describes practising in a circle with a small group, where teacher and student disappear, and her gratitude to Justin and to Steve, who taught her.
Linda F. McKenzie
Regina, SK, Canada
Maxime Wan noticed that the thumbs and fingers of the Cosmic Consciousness Pose form the Chinese character for "complete," whose mirror image and added strokes yield the character for gold.
Maxime Wan
Edmonton, Canada
Reneé Wilson recounts how an elderly couple joined her new class at the "Y" after watching two of her former Victoria students lead about 20 travelers in T'ai Chi Chih during a long wait at the Kunming airport.
Reneé Wilson
Victoria, BC, Canada
Sharon Melvin outlines the Teacher Preparation Course she built in Edmonton, with apprenticeship teaching, private instruction, a research report and monthly meetings, one student heading to Victoria in May.
Sharon Melvin
Edmonton AB, Canada