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  Authors: Heidrun and Josef Aikido Dojo Alpen     Unser Dojo setzt auf kreative, digitale Lösungen.   Seit Jahrzehnten praktizieren wir als Gründer und Leiter des Alpener Dojos nun schon Aikido. Viele Schwierigkeiten und Hürden gab es zu überwinden, doch welche Herausforderungen seit dem 13. März 2020 auf das Dojo zukommen würden, konnte man […]

What is the relationship between Aikido and Meditation? Is there a relationship between the two? How do I see a parallel between meditation and Aikido? I see the relationship between meditation and Aikido similar to the relationship between being and doing or between stillness and action. So how does meditation and Aikido relate to one […]

Author: Salvatore Ligama Genki Dojo       Hello everyone! For who don’t know my name is Salvo and I’m Dojo-cho of Genki Dojo. Genki Dojo’s course started in March 2018 and in this moment I’ve a little group of students. During all last year and currently I don’t stopped my course, when it’s possible […]

Author: Marco Rubatto Hara Kai Dojo     We have often wondered how to make our discipline known … and therefore how to start this fascinating path in Aikido: today we talk about how – in our opinion – it would be good to finish it. First of all, we must admit that not everyone […]

Author: Julia Geissberger Aikido Unlimited       What’s going on at the Dojo Aikido Unlimited in January 2021? Like in many other places also our Dojo is more quiet. Only kids’ classes are taking place, adults train outside. Just a few people come. Beside this we meet clients in the Trager-practice. It seems to […]

Author: Durward Burrell Aikido Vevey     One main aspect that makes Aikido unique and attractive to such a variety of people are the profound perspectives that helped create the art. This is the reason, for example I turned to Aikido after a childhood of growing up with different martial arts. As I matured, I […]

  Why is Aikido evolutionary? There are many of us in the Aikido community that use the word evolutionary as being a quality of the art that we practice. For myself, I had from the beginning seen Aikido, one as being a sophisticated, powerful yet subtle martial art. Secondly, Aikido had the promise of being […]

Exploring the 4 different levels of being in, with and as Body. I would like to begin with some questions that can offer some new ways to discover different levels of ourselves or different dimensions of ourselves. I would like to begin with what’s the difference between “being in the body” and “allowing the body”? […]

With the news, of the corona virus, Covid 19, we are faced with many decisions on what to do and where to act. We are being hit with so much information that it can overstimulate our system into a hyper-reactivity. But with the precautionary advise to stay isolated as part of our communal response to […]

Last July/August, the Evolutionary Aikido Community had its second Teacher Conference.   We had over 12 dojo-chis together discussing the theme of principles in Aikido.  The group explored over 30 different qualities, skills, or expressions of aikido, that we could recognise and identify collectively. In the meeting we had used the categories of Manifest, Hidden […]

Here in the Evolutionary Aikido Community, we have a small circle of dojos that we refer to as the Riviera Aikido Community.  These dojos circle Lake Geneva (Lac Léman) and consist of Aikido Montreux, Aikido Vevey, Aikido St Gingolph, and our new dojo Aikido Lausanne.  Every first Wednesday of the month we do a communal […]

On our path and in our lives, as teachers and long term practitioners of Aikido, we face the ever present question, “how do we care for ourselves while we train?”. One of the main flawed assumptions of traditional training in Aikido seems to be that after many years of training, a person should expect to […]