TCC’s Transformative Nature

The re-dedication ceremony, held on Saturday night of the teacher’s conference, is a time to examine from where our T’ai Chi Chih practice has taken us, where we are now and where we see ourselves moving through this transformative practice. We come away from conference with renewed enthusiasm for our own practice and our teaching.

On the plane ride home after conference I found myself not so much reflecting on TCC but more on where I am with my own journey in this life, the kind of person I am/my habit patterns and the kind of person I would like to be/letting go of attachments, etc. At conference I witnessed acts of compassion and generosity; I heard of other’s struggles and blessings received over the past year; and I experienced more heartfelt openness and love from people in three days than I might have in six months. All these experiences, all these examples of fine human beings, with all our humanness, make me want to be a better person. It is funny, but I feel conference brings out the best in me and the worst in me. Being together, moving lots of Chi, seems to magnify life. Those moments of clarity just hit me in the face. (An old western comes to mind, “The Good, Bad, and the Ugly.”) Actually it’s all good; it just is what it is.

The next issue of The Vital Force will be the conference issue. I encourage those of you who attended to express how conference might have affected you in a spiritual way. The transformative nature of moving and balancing the life force has left its mark on all of us who practice TCC.