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.
Connecticut
Articles written by T’ai Chi Chih teachers and students in Connecticut: their classes and practice groups, retreats and events, and personal stories of practice.
Dennis McCann, a hospital chaplain accredited in 2009, describes his first annual conference as a spiritual upgrade that led 26 employees and patients to sign up for his eight-week summer course.
Dennis McCann
Guilford, Connecticut
Dennis McCann compares T'ai Chi Chih to the bottomless Lake Pharaoh of his boyhood camping trips, describing how deep practice took him beneath body, emotion and thought until something began mirroring his Pulling Taffy and Passing Clouds.
Dennis McCann
Guilford, CT
Dennis McCann, a hospital chaplain newly accredited by Pam Towne and Antonia, describes starting a class at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, its Wellness Room setting, and the overlapping hour format for returning students.
Dennis McCann
Guilford, CT