T’ai Chi Chih Teacher Training Feedback

April 18-23, 1994, Techny, IL

By Barbara Peller

As I sat to write this short article on the Teachers’ Course we’ve just completed here in the Chicagoland area, I turned to a quote from Justin in the December 1993 Vital Force, which reads: “Each Teachers’ Course is a chance to develop new jewels and a force for ‘good’ in the world.” Each of the nine new TCC teachers, who received their teacher training and certificate this week, just sparkled with light and love and radiated joy and humility, as well as enthusiasm and flexibility. We shared a wonderful week at a retreat center complete with a beautiful pond where ducks and geese were nesting, and where trees were budding and the whole earth seemed to be awakening and greening before our eyes. Each day, the bare branches filled and ripened, as Steve and the candidates and renewing teachers who were staying at the retreat center practiced TCC outdoors by day, shared meals, and went on outings to the nearby Botanical Gardens and Ba’Hai Temple.

The teacher trainings at night were enhanced by the presence of over eleven local teachers, who attended as their schedules permitted. By Saturday, we had over 30 people in attendance.

All the candidates were well prepared for the course by their TCC teachers, and offered presentations that flowed from their hearts and touched our hearts with admiration and inspiration.

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to sponsor the course as the final note of my contribution to the spirit of the TCC community in Chicagoland. I am, as I write, just five days from the time I will be moving to northwest Wisconsin, where I will be married in August. Come the Fall, I am certain I will begin offering TCC classes and helping to birth a new TCC community of students and future teachers.

I am thankful to Steve for his wise and skillful ways of assisting us all through the evolutionary opportunities each teachers’ training course holds.

I am also grateful to Liz and Lois for all the materials they supplied relating to The Vital Force and the TCC movement, and to Jean Katus for her help in making Good Karma teaching materials, including Justin’s new video, available at the course for the convenience of new teachers and already established teachers.

I encouraged Patty, Don, Marcie, Christa, Donna, Merrie Fran, Mary Louise, Claire, and David to take Justin’s words to heart by simply being the jewels that you are and through teaching TCC, serving as a force for “good” in the world.

In the spirit of the blessing of Chi,

– Barbara