01-Regular Topics Act while Ki is Extending
There is a set of principles that is most important in the practice of Shinshin Toitsu Aikido. These principles show the...
Shinichi Tohei's Ki Weblog
01-Regular Topics 01-Regular Topics Acquisition and Mastery
I attend the Shinshin Toitsu Aikido black belt promotion tests, which are conducted throughout Japan, as an observer.Thi...
01-Regular Topics Putting the Important Things in One’s Mind
Once, while I was still in my uchideshi (apprenticeship) training, I was summoned by Tohei Sensei and rushed to see him ...
01-Regular Topics The Validation of Kiatsuhō
The Shinshin Toitsu Aikidokai has 24 federations / chapters throughout the world and about 30,000 members are training.O...
01-Regular Topics Understanding Conveyed Through Ki
When I was in high school, I started taking classes at Sundai Yobikō to get ready for university entrance exams (“Yobikō...
05-Information Shinichi Tohei's Japanese book has been translated into Chinese and published in Taiwan
My Japanese book published in 2022 “「調子いい！」が続く姿勢と呼吸の整え方（How to keep good condition with coordination of mind and body, a...
01-Regular Topics Breathing Imitation
It was over 10 years ago when I came across a book review in a magazine about a well-known Japanese impressionist / stan...
05-Information Condolence (Christopher Curtis Sensei)
Christopher Curtis Sensei, 8th Dan Shinshintoitsu Aikido, the former Chief Instructor of the Hawaii Ki Federation, passe...
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 ...