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.
Vermont
Articles written by T’ai Chi Chih teachers and students in Vermont: their classes and practice groups, retreats and events, and personal stories of practice.
Deanna Shapiro answers talk of enforced stillness during shelter in place with seven stanzas likening stillness to a giving tree, a summer breeze, clear water, a loving friend and an orchestra's harmony.
Deanna Shapiro learned T'ai Chi Chih at a senior center in Charlotte, Vermont, and with no teachers in her state she gets her TCC fix during twice-yearly visits to Albuquerque.
Deanna Shapiro
Ferrisburgh, VT
