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.
Virginia
Articles written by T’ai Chi Chih teachers and students in Virginia: their classes and practice groups, retreats and events, and personal stories of practice.
Fusun Sulzbach traces her on-again off-again practice from her 2002 accreditation presentation through a divorce, retirement, a gym class closed by COVID, and a June retreat in Oceanside that renewed her daily routine and ended her sleep medication.
Fusun Sulzbach
Richmond, Virginia
Kristin Clark Taylor describes completing one of the first accreditation courses held entirely on Zoom, with Daniel Pienciak and April Leffler, and insists the Chi she felt alone in her living room was not virtual.
Kristin Clark Taylor
Reston, Virginia
Andrea Skillman's biweekly class for in-patient PTSD veterans in North Chicago pairs tapping and guided meditation with TCC; 67 participants reported drops in pain, racing thoughts, anger, anxiety and agitation.
Andrea Skillman
North Chicago, Virginia
Furman Riley, a new teacher, recounts the second annual T'ai Chi Chih teacher symposium, where Sandy McAlister led movement refinement and teachers traded aids, problem solving and community wisdom.
Furman Riley
Reston, VA
Furman Riley traces his path from a 1990 workshop with Janet Yannacone to accreditation week, aided by Athena Mantle and Lorraine Lepine, capped by Justin Stone's 93rd birthday celebration, with brief comments from fifteen new teachers.
Furman Riley
Reston, VA