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.
Michigan
Articles written by T’ai Chi Chih teachers and students in Michigan: their classes and practice groups, retreats and events, and personal stories of practice.
Lauren Paitson's hour-long flight out of Sault Ste Marie became a nine-hour ordeal of blizzards and diversions, so she practised T'ai Chi Chih in the aisle in Omaha.
Lauren Paitson
Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
Barb Shambach audited the November 2015 Albuquerque accreditation with trainer Dan Pienciak, Carmen Brocklehurst and Dora Wiemann, recounting a candidate steadying himself with Bass Drum, the "random sacks" mix-up, and a reading of "Shadows."
Barb Shambach
Battle Creek, Michigan (and Sedona, Arizona)
Barb Shambach names her accreditation week enjoyable, humiliating and encouraging by turns, thanks Pam Towne and the auditors, and lists her plan to organize notes, study Justin Stone's DVDs and teach at a Michigan Y Center.
Barb Shambach
Battle Creek, Michigan