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Windsong aikido students: Are you getting ready for a belt promotion? We’ve created some handy study guides to help make sure you are prepared.
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- Aikido | Blog | Jim Ellison
Finding Aikido
Jim Ellison (Spiritual Gravity blog) Life is full of small miracles. Some people like to call them “coincidences”, but I think that “small miracles” is a much more fitting term. For me, Aikido has been a life-changing journey that has shaped me as a martial artist as well as a person, and has heavily influenced…
- Aikido | Blog | Jodo | Judo | Nick Lowry
Subtle Energy Synchrony – Meditation, Chi-Gung-Budo
by Nick Lowry If you have a lot of pendulums swinging in a room, over a short period of time they all tend to en-train toward synchronicity with the largest one. This works with people’s subtle emotional and energetic qualities as well. Folks tend to get in synchronicity with the person who has the strongest…
- Aikido | Blog | Nick Lowry
Zazen and Aiki
by Nick Lowry Do not seek conflict and do not maintain guile. Do not hide or run away from conflict and do not blind yourself. Each transition requires awarness and precision — we tend to want to avoid problems and that tendency tends to further our entanglements. The way out of entanglement is to go…
- Aikido | Blog | Jodo | Judo | Nick Lowry
Rank is in the Eye of the Beholder
by Nick Lowry Rank is in the eye of the beholder Where do high ranks come from?what makes a high dan rank in budo, a high dan rank? Is it technical ability? teaching ability? contribution to the art? What does being ranked as a godan, rokudan, nanadan, hachidan, kudan, judan mean? Who decides its meaning?…
- Aikido | Blog | Nick Lowry
Thinking Back on Aikido
by Nick Lowry Thinking back to the aikido I learned in the 1980s ….The ukemi and the Walking are mostly identical to what we do today. The 17 was very linear and clunky, but still very strong. Movement and angles were narrow and prescriptive, with precise and minimal handwork (two handed balance breaks) and homolateral…
