05-Information Condolence (Christopher Curtis Sensei)
Christopher Curtis Sensei, 8th Dan Shinshintoitsu Aikido, the former Chief Instructor of the Hawaii Ki Federation, passe...
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05-Information English E-Book of "Ki Breathing" Now Available
Ki Breathing, the English-language e-book of Koichi Tohei Sensei's book, is now available. This is an English translatio...
01-Regular Topics Finding Good Points
This is an interesting story that I heard when I accompanied Koichi Tohei Sensei during one of his seminars in Hawaii.Du...
01-Regular Topics The Real Value of Ukemi
In the practice of Shinshin Toitsu Aikido (Ki-Aikido), we attach great importance to “ukemi.”The Japanese word “ukemi” i...
01-Regular Topics Fresh Impression
The Japanese painter Ms. Yuki Ogura has lived to the age of 105. I once accompanied Koichi Tohei Sensei to visit her hom...
01-Regular Topics Noticing Signals
Last year, I was asked to participate on the popular TV program “Asaichi,” on Japan’s public broadcasting station, NHK. ...
01-Regular Topics Breathing and Emotions
The prolonged effects of COVID19 have perhaps made us more irritable. We may get angry over the smallest things, causing...
01-Regular Topics Resetting One Point
The spread of COVID19 has kept many of us in our homes for this past year and prevented many from gathering together. As...
01-Regular Topics Living Calmness
I was officially asked by the Los Angeles Dodgers to teach “Ki“ to their top prospects at a local camp for three years s...
01-Regular Topics New Dojo all over the Country
A state of emergency has been declared in Tokyo and some prefectures. According to news reports, the areas under emergen...
01-Regular Topics Setsudo: Creating more Opportunities to Study Shinshin Toitsu Aikido
In this blog I talk about my “resolution” for the future of Shinshin Toitsu Aikido.In April 2020, when the state of emer...
01-Regular Topics Infused with Ki
We often use the word “Ki ga Hairu” in Japanese to refer to responses that are Ki-infused, work that is Ki-infused, and ...
01-Regular Topics The Purpose of UKEMI
In Shin-Shin-Toitsu Aikido practice, students learn to respect their opponents’ mind and guide and throw them according ...
01-Regular Topics What is Extending Ki?
This is a story about after I became an instructor.I began my training as an Uchideshi, the disciple training of Koichi ...
01-Regular Topics Direction of Mind
I am the head of a large organization.In a place where a lot of people gather, like in an organization, our “direction o...
01-Regular Topics What is most important
The “New Coronavirus” is spreading worldwide. This unknown virus has no established preventive or therapeutic methods. ...
05-Information The 100th anniversary of Koichi Tohei Sensei's birth
Today is the birthday of Koichi Tohei Sensei, the founder of Shinshintoitsu Aikido. Koichi Tohei Sensei was born in 1920...
01-Regular Topics What is Extending Ki?
When Ki is stuck, we cannot use our mind freely, but if we can extend Ki, then Ki will begin flowing again. When we exte...
01-Regular Topics To Live with the Universe
Koichi Tohei Sensei always told us to live with the Universe.We live our life based on the values which come from our pa...
01-Regular Topics “Make Up Your Mind!”
Koichi Tohei Sensei was both my teacher and my father.After our relationship became “teacher and student”, we had to sto...