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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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to the Evolutionary Aikido Community! We would like to announce our formation as open collective of dojo communities committed to the profound vision of the art of Aikido. The Vision that emerges from the understanding that who we are exists within an interconnected interdependent system. We are literally one living system. With that perspective, […]
As we emerge onto the Aikido scene, this community, the EAC holds a certain perspective as inherent in the art of Aikido, the spiritual perspective. What do we mean by “spiritual”? Essentially it refers to the understanding of self, other and the world. Fundamentally, the understanding of self, is primary for this question. Our conditioned […]