Journey to the Heart of Aikido: The Teachings of Motomichi by Linda Holiday,Motomichi Anno

By Linda Holiday,Motomichi Anno

Journey to the center of Aikido presents the lessons of Motomichi Anno Sensei, one of many few last direct scholars of Morihei Ueshiba, the mythical founding father of Aikido. After a life of perform and educating in Japan, the USA, and Europe, Anno Sensei conveys via his teachings Aikido's crucial spirit of affection, concord, gratitude, and purification with uncomplicated authenticity and eloquence. writer and translator Linda Holiday--herself a senior teacher of Aikido--brings to lifestyles the intimacy of this verbal exchange via translated discourses at the deep perform of Aikido and candid dialogues among Anno sensei and Western scholars.

Journey to the center of Aikido includes Linda Holiday's vibrant account of her experience as a tender lady learning Aikido within the mystical quarter of Kumano, Japan, within the Seventies, and a poignant telling of Anno sensei's existence and his first-hand event of teaching with Aikido's founder. a necessary source for the worldwide Aikido group, Journey to the center of Aikido also bargains religious teachings suitable to all modern seekers, touching a variety of subject matters equivalent to the that means of martial arts, the mixing of physique and spirit, the reality of interconnectedness, and the perform of peace, delivering all readers perception into the profound non secular questions on the center of life.

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