Tag Archives: mindfulness

Ki Aikido and Anxiety

A lot of us experience anxiety and even panic attacks in spite of “doing the right thing” and “taking care of ourselves”. Many turn to martial arts for solution. After all, teachers and instructors are looking so capable and self-assured on promotional videos. Students hope that learning how to defeat opponents and protect themselves willContinue reading “Ki Aikido and Anxiety”

Coping skills through Ki Aikido

Here one of the most profound thinkers of Western Civilization contrasts ‘improvisation’ wrestling with a choreographed dance. In Ki Aikido the purpose of practice is to train the mind to cope with unexpected events in our life. Multiple partners’ attack represents problems in the daily life that come to us from all sides and areContinue reading “Coping skills through Ki Aikido”

The hardest part of Aikido practice

I chanced upon a copy of a 1969 book to which Sensei Williams has contributed a chapter on Aikido. I thought that this quote could be encouraging for those making up their mind to come to a class. It is not so much the practice that is the difficult part but the getting down toContinue reading “The hardest part of Aikido practice”

2nd Dan at 94

From the Ki Federation web-site: … We don’t normally take photographs of gradings. However, Rose, at age 94, gave us permission to take and publish these images from her 2nd Dan Grading. http://kifederationofgreatbritain.co.uk/all-articles/october-2019-aikido-update/ As a bit of background: It typically takes around 6 years of practice to achieve 2nd Dan, that should give an ideaContinue reading “2nd Dan at 94”

Gracefulness

One night while watching a dancer, and inwardly condemning her tours de force as barbarisms which would be hissed, were not people such cowards as always to applaud what they think it the fashion to applaud, I remarked that the truly graceful motions occasionally introduced, were those performed with comparatively little effort. After calling toContinue reading “Gracefulness”