The Vital Force Archive

Transcribed from Justin Stone's spoken word CD, Justin describes the tingling fingers, healing heat and three confirmatory signs of Chi flow, quotes Lao Tzu, and outlines a maximum Chi program for athletes.

From a spoken word CD, Justin Stone links chi to breath and mood, cites Sri Aurobindo, and describes the maximum Chi program he would give athletes, including Nei Kung at bedtime.

Lisa Stroyan draws on Justin's three confirming signs, the Nei Kung and an email exchange with Lynne Roberts to offer practical ways to develop TCC mentally, from breath counting to feeling weight shift through the soles.

Judy Chancey describes T'ai Chi at the Sea, a class she built for veterans with PTSD in a program that forbids instruction-based teaching, using sea imagery, grounding and wave rhythm instead of verbal cues.

A gathering of Pyramid Poems by Nathalie Miller, Monica Cejudo, Linda Jones, Rene Stramwasser and others on doing Nei Kung at night, trusting the blue sea, silence, and chi received in the t'an t'ien.

Jeneth Rundle traces her attraction to statues of Kuan Yin and Amida Buddha, then describes the sudden urge during the pandemic to return to daily Seijaku practice alongside Nei Kung recitation.

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.

Denise Emanuel Clemen stocked her Minneapolis pantry as COVID-19 emptied the Trader Joe's shelves down to green jackfruit, then found her real reserve in daily T'ai Chi Chih, yoga and 3:00 a.m. Nei Kung.

Lisa Stroyan writes from the early weeks of the pandemic, disoriented by fear and media, deaths at her father's former nursing home, and finds grounding in Zoom practices, Justin's books and the Nei Kung.

Daniel Pienciak describes the expansion and contraction he feels in the t'an t'ien during weight shifts, using shadows, Peter Pan and rooted trees, and credits TCC and Seijaku with steadying a recently recognized case of PTSD.

Jeneth Rundle planned a year off from teaching after moving to Oregon, then agreed to teach a neighbor recovering from cancer treatment, a stroke and surgery who progressed from seated practice to standing for a full hour.

Amy Tyksinski describes teaching Nei Kung to beginning students midway through each semester and shares notes from Justin Stone's Saturday night teshos on Original Face, motivation, patience and confidence in the Chi.

Carol Spicer describes closing every class with a short seated meditation, crediting Dorene Krause and Phyllis Segal for the practice, and includes her poem "Within the Softness," written after the 2014 teacher conference.

Justin Stone, in a taped lecture, defines Chi through Lao-Tzu and Sri Aurobindo, describes the reciprocal character of mind and Chi, outlines a maximum Chi program for athletes, and names the seven emotions.

Dixie Adeniran describes her sunrise practice in the back yard, birds bathing in the Buddha fountain during Bird Flaps Its Wings, and circles within circles leading to Cosmic Consciousness Pose; followed by Pyramid Poems on Nei Kung and sleep.

Pyramid poems from Kay Smith, Judy Hendricks, Bo Waddell, Caroline Guilott, Mary Ruiz and others on nightly Nei Kung and sleep, followed by classroom mishaps from Sharon Sirkis and Dee Burton.

An excerpt from Justin Stone's Meditation for Healing gives the four bedtime affirmations of the Nei Kung and the healing heat that follows, followed by pyramid poems from fourteen practitioners.

Pam Towne imagines T'ai Chi Chih in 2111: millions practicing worldwide, teachers appearing as holograms in students' living rooms, a 1000-teacher conference, and the form still led by an appointed Guide.

Daniel Pienciak recounts Sandy McAlister's four-day New Jersey intensive, listing the questions she raised about letting go, grounding, the t'an t'ien and Nei Kung, along with participants' own comments afterward.

Carmen L. Brocklehurst thanks the St. Louis team for the 2004 Conference and describes leading the final morning practice with 115 teachers who moved as "one sea of energy."

Participants including Dan Pienciak, Victoria Vercelletto and John Buffington thank Ed Altman for his teaching at a New Jersey Seijaku accreditation course and one-day Teacher Renewal, praising his precision about resistance, grounding chi and lingering in softness.

Justin Stone answers Dale Buchanan's questions by letter, warning that Seijaku and the Jing be taught only to sincere students, advising against weightlifting, and insisting the teacher must be a motivator.

Dale Buchanan describes what followed months of daily Seijaku, Jing, Sole Breathing and Nei Kung practice: intense pressure in his head, a surge of creativity that sent him out to buy paints, lasting internal power, and monthly bouts of weeping that cleansed what he was holding onto.

Teachers including Pam Towne, Edie Budney and Anne Doering recount the 1997 Teachers' Conference: Joel's harp concert, Justin's Jing chi enhancement, the candlelit rededication circle, and blunt suggestions for next year.

Louis and Joyce DeGidio describe joining the Tuesday morning teachers' practice circle at the T'ai Chi Chih Center, where Justin Stone demonstrated each movement, Carmen Brocklehurst shared Nei Kung meditation, and Connie Hyde welcomed them to her evening class.

Justin Stone argues that the obvious physical gains of T'ai Chi Chih, weight control and energy, mask its essence: an inner discipline that awakens the Vital Force and dissolves long-standing blockages.

Carmen Brocklehurst answers a student curious about T'ai Chi Ch'uan and martial self-defense, offering the Chinese saying about defending oneself against oneself and Hakuin's words on enlightenment.

Justin Stone, writing in 1988, describes balancing the yin and yang aspects of chi as one of life's great secrets, drawing on Hua Yen Buddhism, Indian prana and acupuncture to argue that all healing is self-healing.

Carmen Brocklehurst describes the blue/violet light visualization Justin Stone taught at the 1991 Teachers Conference, and how she finally felt it by imagining her own shower water as that light.

In a letter to Justin Stone, J. R. L. catalogues energy sensations that began in a 1988 class: heated palms at church, a pencil point of energy from a crystal, and auras around pine trees.