Remember to breathe through your feet, too.
Use your index toe to point.
Breathe through your spine.
When shifting weight from one foot to the other, remember, it is like your hips are a cloud standing on two mountains - shifting weight should feel like floating. Kokyu🌳
youtu.be/K9ASI-Bgwk8?...
🙇♂️Unity and Separation🙇♂️
This is form.
After death; form less.
🙇♂️
Humility
🙇♂️
Is this Uke or Nage?
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Look up Lisa Tomoleoni Sensei. She gets busy, but will be happy to help.
Gambate 🙇♂️
www.abidingspiritcenter.org/instructors....
“In Aikido training, we learn from everyone. We learn from the most experience people, but we also learn from new students. Everyone is connected through the heart and develops a mutual understanding. It is important to create a place where that can happen.”
― Anno Sensei
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What is ki?
It is not "just" a Japanese concept. 氣 気
Chi (China), Prana (India), རླུང (Tibet, pronounced loong), niłchi'i (Diné/Navajo)
The word Hózhó in Diné Bizaad (Navajo) includes the meanings of: Harmony, Balance, Beauty and Order.
Hózhó is ai, 合.
Hózhó niłchi'i ☯️
Seminar in Alaska.
Reconciliation
Aikido is about Reconciliation
མཐར་ཕྱིན་པ 🙏 Right Action
Reminders for selves:
1,3,4,8
: right view,
right resolve,
right speech,
right conduct,
right livelihood,
right effort, right mindfulness, and ____?
What's left?
right aiki
How do you teach ikkyo to rock people? Turn rock 90°.
Whole life ikkyo
Rock people - Square
Vegetation people - Circle
Animal people - Triangle
Cloud people - _____ ?
OSensei
Cloud people reference:
nativeamerican.mythologyworldwide.com/the-myth-of-...
Circle, Triangle, Square reference with Vegetation, Animal, and Rock people: The Heart of Aikido book.
Morihei
Slow down and do one thing at a time.
呼吸
Realistic attack = realistic defense.
Train with sincerity.
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
Train with smooth flowing power.
Sensei,
Can you show the 4 directions of Shiho-nage and keep them clear, while keeping arms in front (as if holding a sword)?
This lesson of keeping arms in front of center is essential!
Thank you for teaching.
🙇♂️
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April 22, 2020 ·
Message from Motomichi Anno Sensei, 8th dan -
My message for everyone at Kangeiko is that this year, we must change. We must not do the same thing over and over. We must change.
I want to do Aikido that has no “throw” in it. Change “shiho-nage” into “shiho-harmony [chowa].”'
IF a matter is immovable,
Ma'ai
What is time?
What is money?
"pesah" kiya hay?
"དངུལ་"ཞེས་པ་ག་རེ་རེད་དམ།
什么是“钱”？
cosa sono i "soldi"?
מה זה "כסף"
"پیسہ" کیا ہے🔏🥒🧿👽
How does it affect aikido?
Effect
Affect
[A reader]
Beginning to understand
Center
Circle
Of kototama
Amatsu Norito Kototama from Sensei Yoshi Shibata
And a recommended Shinto Norito book of prayers.
Mindfully - play a video of me in slow motion. Connect with me.
Slow to develop flow.
youtube.com/shorts/usx6H...
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What was your start point; the origin of the result?
"You have to be aware at all times, you have to be present and in the moment."
"It's the people and the heart, I really think this place has a great heart, they are not just students they are a community"
"We approach aikido as a living art. We're trying to find out what is it within ourselves,"
