Practicing Aikido is a pleasure, a joy - and can do much more.
How closely intertwined relationship and movement are from the beginning of life, is explained here touchingly. In our western culture, however, psychomotor deficiencies are inherent. In Aikido, they encounter not only Japanese movement patterns, but also facets of the Japanese understanding and experience of relationships that have received little attention up to now.
Practicing Aikido in an atmosphere of caring and forbearance can loosen the body's defenses, reorganize affect-motor schemas, promote interactional competence, self-efficacy, and the ability to self-regulate, initiate maturation processes, and generally mobilize self-healing forces.
This reading and workbook addresses students as well as teachers. Classical topics of Budo as well as the constituent elements Ai, Ki and Do are linked in a surprising way with current research results; for example, it is explained how the ethics of Aikido are realized on the level of the smallest body movements. The author sensitizes her readers in detail and in a way that is comprehensible to laymen throughout, to what all is involved when we encounter each other on the mat while practicing, learning and teaching aikido. The book provides information, answers questions one may have had, and frames experiences aikido practitioners have had with themselves and others.
It addresses the diversity of students, individual stages of learning, women and men, older practitioners, the range of expectations between physical performance and self-awareness.
The author, 4th dan Aikikai, is a graduate psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, and doctor of sports science. She has over three decades of experience treating people on a depth psychology background with body-oriented methods, training and mentoring psychotherapists herself, and practicing and also teaching aikido for just as long.
Features:
Publisher: Verlag Werner Kristkeitz
Language: German
Author: Viola Dioszeghy-Krauß
Hardcover with 400 pages
41 illustrations and diagrams
ISBN: 978-3-932337-59-8
