The theme for this edition of the AWA newsletter is one that I have been looking forward to for many months. It brings together and explores the relationship between two of my greatest passions: aikido and nature. Just as I suspected, I am not the only one in the AWA or in the aikido world at large that feels the connection between these two subjects. It is no wonder, really, since O’Sensei himself spent a great deal of time training outdoors, worshiping in places of natural beauty, and communing with nature as a farmer and homesteader. Many of his teachings and poems clearly link the natural world and the practice of aikido...
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