In common imagination, devotion is a quality that fascinates. An attitude that inspires admiration, evoking that sense of wholeness and pure selflessness that we admire so much and yet sometimes […]
Devotion
Categoria: Martial Arts
Between promise and fulfillment
Nothing more than the moment of an adolescent’s test better represents the bond between promise and fulfillment. We consider it a privilege to be able to experience our practice of […]
Sacrifice or garbage?
Sometimes going downstairs to take out the trash feels like a sacrifice. If you also have to carefully separate everything for recycling, even more so. But that’s not today’s topic. […]
Practicing on your feet
We already knew the Japanese were ahead of their time. For instance, centuries before absurdities like OnlyFans existed, Eastern cultures had already developed an almost obsessive attention to feet. In […]
Aikido and adolescence
When it comes to education, young people, Aikido and adolescence, everyone seems to be an expert. It is easy to tell others -especially the young ones- what they should do […]
If and when
One of the many gifts of practicing and teaching Aikido is certainly the greater care we give to words and how we use them. “If” and “when,” for example. Two […]
Between quality and quantity
Which should we choose, quality or quantity? This is not only a poorly framed question but, in the end, a somewhat useless one. Between a single banknote fresh from the […]
The sublime
The sublime, like any other concept, is deeply evocative and rooted in personal experience. When we speak about sublime, we often think of artworks, landscapes, or natural spectacles. More rarely […]
The words of Aikido
The words of Aikido form a strange vocabulary.A hybrid made of Japanese terms, Eastern concepts, and our own mother tongue. Like all languages, it draws its origin, meaning, and sense […]
Pain
Pain is an experience shared by everyone -alongside many others that are far better and more positive, fortunately. It appears very early on: no newborn comes into the world laughing […]