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Koichi Tohei was a student of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido. In his own teaching, Tohei developed four principles to help guide his students:
1) Keep one point;
2) Relax completely;
3) Keep weight underside;
4) Extend Ki.
(https://www.ki-aikido.de/en/v/kisoc/material/principles.php)
I’d like to comment on his four principles, and ...
I continue to sit the 40 in the lotus, at least once a day, in spite of the extent of the stretch that I find myself in past 35. I’m looking for the activity of the sitting to be generated involuntarily out of the stretch of ligaments, in reciprocity for the most part, and I accept that the stretch that’s involved is going to develop ...
Here’s a question I was asked on “The Dao Bums” site recently, and my response:
“Is the suffocation response something you experience while sitting?”
It’s something I experience every sitting, along with the anxiety connected with the precariousness of posture.
The precariousness for ...