COORDINATING MIND AND BODY

1. Hold your point
2. Relax completely
3. Keep your weight on the underside
4. Extend Ki

KI AIKIDO

1. Extend Ki (constant).
2. Know your partner’s mind.
3. Respect your partner’s Ki.
4. Put yourself in your partner’s shoes.
5. Practise with confidence

KEEP YOUR POINT

A posture in which:
1. You are unaware of your lower abdomen.
2. You’re not putting your weight on your legs.
3. Not aware of your own breathing.
4. You can accept anything.
5. You extend all your power.

RELAX YOURSELF COMPLETELY

A posture in which:
1. The power of the whole body settles into its natural state.
2. You positively relax without losing strength.
3. You look your greatest.
4. You are the strongest.
5. You’re not aggressive

KEEP THE WEIGHT ON THE BOTTOM

A posture in which:
1. You feel most comfortable.
2. You don’t feel your body weight.
3. Ki expands the most.
4. You are quick and flexible in responding to anything.
5. You can see and feel everything clearly

EXTEND KI

A posture in which:
1. You are unaware of your own body.
2. Centrifugal force at work.
3. You have gentle eyes and relaxed body
4. You are the calmest.
5. You’re happy and carefree

TEST THE KYO

1. Don’t test the physical strength of the body, but test the unwavering mind.
2. Test according to the student’s ability.
3. Don’t bring the student to his knees with the test, but make him understand and progress.
4. Learn by testing others.
5. Don’t just teach how to pass the test, teach the purpose of the test

EXERCISES FOR KID DEVELOPMENT

Posture:
1. Having the point as the centre.
2. In which the Ki expands.
3. Which is natural and relexed.
4. In which you are not aware of your own musculature.
5. In which you maintain a good rhythm

KI meditation

Posture:
1. Of restraint.
2. Of throwing everything away. Out
3. Of harmony.
4. In which you can feel the life of every being.
5. In which you feel the movement of Ki in the Universe

BREATHING KI

1. Breathe out by making the “ah” sound
2. Breathe out as calmly as possible.
3. Ki should continue indefinitely after exhaling.
4. Breathe in through the tip of the nose until the body is full of air.
5. Calm your mind infinitely in the point infinity after the inhale.

JO

1 Hold gently.
2. The back hand is important.
3. Move the Jo freely.
4. The Jo should always be held with one hand.
5. The top of the Jo has a continuous movement without interruption

BOKEN

1- Hold gently.
2. The tip of the sword should be calm.
3. Use only the weight of the boken.
4. Do not weaken your own Ki.
5. Ki must start before the boken.

LEARNING

1. Be obedient.
2. Persevere in what you do.
3. Apply what you learn to everyday life.
4. Change your subconscious.
5. Teach what you have learnt

TEACHING

1. Teach what is right, don’t cultivate physical superciliousness.
2. Be modest.
3. Learn with others.
4. Be fair and impartial.
5. Be positive

SETSUDO (TEACHING THE WAY OF THE UNIVERSE)

1. Believe in the way of the Universe.
2. Share the way of the Universe with everyone.
3. You must practice what you teach.
4. Teach according to each person.
5. Develop with others

KIATSU RYOHO

1. Extend Ki from the Point in the lower abdomen.
2. Stay relaxed.
3. Press perpendicular to the centre without forcing.
4. Focus the Ki continuously and precisely at the fingertips.
5. Think in lines rather than dots

KIDS EDUCATION

1. Be inventive, getting them to play and enjoy what they are learning.
2. Never let them hurt themselves or make serious mistakes.
3. Always associate each exercise with their growth, and use positive words.
4. Make them very clear which behaviour is good and which is bad.
5. When they misbehave, chastise them firmly but with a positive attitude

SLEEP WITH KI

1. Always unify your mind and body before going to bed.
2. Believe that the mind rules the body.
3. Calm and collect your thoughts before going to bed.
4. Keep your head cool and your feet warm.
5. Use your mind to direct the blood to your soles

WORK AT JOB

1. Take the initiative and find out what needs to be done before you are told.
2. Make a habit of taking notes to organise and improve your work.
3. Don’t put off something you can do now.
4. Before going to bed, plan your next day’s work.
5. Get in the habit of checking your notes first thing in the morning

SELLING

1. Believe in what you’re trying to sell.
2. Always be honest with the buyer.
3. Never promise what you can’t deliver.
4. Always provide responsible service after the sale.
5. Even if you fail to sell, always leave a positive impression

MANAGEMENT

1. Become a positive person yourself first.
2. Don’t work for selfish gain, but see how others can benefit from your work.
3. Be calm enough to realise the big trends in society and the world.
4. Always endeavour to help your employees grow and develop.
5. Give back in some way to society your profits and benefits

DAY BY DAY LIFE

1. Universal mind.
2. Loves all creation.
3. Be grateful.
4. Do good in secret
5. Have pitying eyes and gentle body.
6. Be forgiving and kind-hearted.
7. Think deeply and judge well.
8. Be calm and determined.
9. Be positive and courageous.
10. Persevere.

THE PUBLIC SPEECH

1 Start with a solid and clear introduction.
2. Write down the main points of your speech and memorise them.
3. Extend Ki from your whole body when you speakk.
4. Speak slowly and emphasise your remarks.
5. Always end with a positive story.

Tohei Sensei s-was born on 20 January 1920 in the Shitaya district (下 谷 区), now Taitō, in Tokyo. From early childhood he struggled with frail health, inherited from his mother, who suffered from pneumonia. He began practising Judo at his father’s urging to improve his health, but then decided to replace his Judo studies with Zen meditation and misogi exercises, learnt at the Ichikukai Dojo in Tokyo.

In 1937, at the age of 16, he entered the Keio judo school, but had to drop out for a year because he became ill with pleurisy. Doctors put him under very drastic treatment and forbade him from practising any more hard training because it could have endangered his life.Tohei Sensei began to study religion and Eastern philosophy intensively and decided to practice what he had read. He devoted his time to Zen and Misogi training (assiduous breathing exercises in one or two-day sessions). After a while he returned to the doctors, who found that the illness had disappeared.

In 1940, when he was 19, Tohei’s judo instructor, Shohei Mori, recommended that he meet the founder of aikido, Sensei Morihei Ueshiba.
In February 1944, at the age of 23, he was sent to the front in central China. Here he realised that at the front any weakening of Ki could mean death. So he decided to practice Ki breathing 200 times a day. Through this exercise he understood the principle of holding the point. Sometimes he could not calm his breathing even with Ki breathing. He noticed that this happened when enemies were hiding nearby. As a result of Tohei Sensei’s constant attention not a single member of his platoon was wounded or killed in the war.

After returning from central China, Tohei Sensei resumed his studies of Aikido and Misogi in Tokyo. He began to spread the Principles of Ki in Europe and Hawaii and became one of the most important and influential personalities in the Aikido world.

In 1947, Tohei Sensei was introduced to the teachings of Tempu Nakamura Sensei (the first man to teach yoga in Japan) who spoke to him about the importance of positive thinking and the fact that the mind moves the body. It was at that moment that Tohei Sensei realised that this was the universal principle underlying the martial arts. He recalled that when he watched O Sensei performing the movements of Aikido, it was clear to him that the Master was leading his partner’s mind and, as a result, leading his body.

Between 1953 and 1971 he helped to build Aikido schools on the coasts of North America, visiting the United States more than 15 times. During this period, Tohei Sensei taught Aikido to many famous sensei such as Hiroshi Tada, Sadateru Arikawa, Seigo Yamaguchi, Shigenobu Okumura, Kazuo Chiba, Yoshimitsu Yamada and Steven Seagal.

In 1969, Tohei Sensei received the 10th Dan. On May 1, 1974, Koichi Tohei officially left the Aikikai organisation and established the Ki and Aikido Society (non-profit organisation) in Tokyo, and since 1990 the main headquarters of the Ki and Aikido Society has been in Ichikai City, Japan.

At 9:14 AM Japan time (GMT +9) on 19 May 2011 Tohei Sensei returned to the source.

Tempū Nakamura (中村天, 20 July 1876 – 1 December 1968) was a Japanese martial arts practitioner and founder of Japanese yoga. He was the first to bring yoga to Japan and founded his own art called Shinshin-tōitsu-dō (心身統一道, lit. unification of mind and body, and taught it at the Tempu-Kai which he created.

Life and family
Born in Tokyo, Japan, his original name was Saburō (Japanese: 三郎) He was the son of Sukeoki Nakamura (中村祐興 1829-1909) of Fukuoka Prefecture and Teu Nakamura (中村テウ 1858-1928) of Tokyo, then known as Edo. His father introduced the use of paper money in Japan when he was an office director of the Japanese Ministry of Finance.

Tempū Nakamura later moved to Fukuoka (福岡岡市, Fukuoka City), Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県), to live with a relative. Once there, he took private lessons from an Englishman and enrolled at Shūyūkan (Japanese: 修猷館, now Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan Senior High School in Sawara-ku) school where English was the medium of instruction and where he became an expert in his family’s style. of judo (随変流) and also trained in kenjutsu and iaijutsu. While practicing judo, he completely defeated an opponent in Kumamoto who then tried to kill Nakamura in revenge. In the violent encounter, Nakamura stabbed and killed his attacker, which was considered self-defence. He left school and joined the ultra-nationalist secret society Gen’yōsha, establishing a friendship with Tōyama Mitsuru.

Japanese Imperial Army
At the age of 16, he joined the Imperial Japanese Army and served as a secret agent in North China. China was ruled by the Manchu dynasty at the time. He was one of only nine of 113 military affairs investigators to return to Japan alive from the Russo-Japanese War, after which he suffered a severe attack of tuberculosis at the age of 30.

Seeking a cure for the disease, he studied autonomic nerves at Columbia University and travelled to England, Germany, Belgium and France. For a time he lived with the family of Sarah Bernhardt. In 1911, on his way back to Japan, he met an Indian yogi named Kaliapa (alias Cariapa and Kariappa) in Egypt, who took him to Gorkhe in eastern Nepal. He stayed there for two-and-a-half years studying and practising yoga, during which time his illness was cured. He practised a variation of Raja Yoga and Karma Yoga with Kaliapa, with an emphasis on Raja Yoga.

Back to Japan
After he finally returned to Japan, he was president of the Tokyo Industrial Bank, among other things. He founded his own medical and philosophical organisation in 1919, renaming it Tempūkai (Japanese: 天風会) in 1940. He taught Shin Shin Tōitsu-dō to Tōhei Kōichi, who later founded Shinshin-tōitsu-aikidō.

He died in 1968 and was buried in the cemetery near Gokoku-ji, Tokyo. In Japan, Tempū is remembered as a prolific writer and a practitioner of philosophy and entrepreneurship.

Morihei Ueshiba (植芝 盛平 Ueshiba Morihei, b. 14 December 1883, Tanabe, Japan, d. 26 April 1969, Iwama, Japan) was the founder of the Japanese martial art aikido. He is sometimes referred to as kaiso 開祖 (“founder”) or Ōsensei 翁先生 (“Great Teacher”) by some aikidoka.

After his death, his son Kisshomaru Ueshiba took over the leadership of aikido’s international destiny.

Syllabus for black belts, ki aikido exams

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1 Dan

Shomenuchi Kokyunage Shomenuchi Kotegaeshi Ushiro Tekubitori Kubishime Kokyunage Ushiro Tekubitori Ikkyo Ushiro Tori Kokyunage

Yokomenuchi (5 arts) Katatetori (5 arts) Munetsuki (5 art) Tanto Tori (5 art) Kata No. 1 Boken Kokyu Dosa Randori – 4 partners

2 Dan

Yokomenuchi (5 art) Katatetori (5 art) Munetsuki (5 arte) Shomenuchi (5 art) Ushiro Tekubitori (5 arte)

Tanto Tori (5 arte) Kata No. 1 Boken Boken Tori (5 arte) Kata nr. 1 Jo Kokyu Dosa Randori – 5 partners

3 Dan

Katatetori Ryotemochi (5 art) Shomenuchi (5 art) Ushiro Tekubitori (5 art) Ushiro Waza (5 arts) Techniques with 2 partners (3 arts) Ki Meditation Kokyu Dosa

Tanto Tori (5 arte) Kata no. 2 Boken Boken Tori (5 arte) Kata no. 2 Jo Jo Nage (5 arte) Jo Tori (5 arte) Randori – 6 partners

The ki exams must be passed first: Jokyu test 2, Chukyu test 3, Shokyu test 4

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Syllabus for coloured belts, ki aikido exams

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1 Kyu

All movement techniques

Munetsuki Ikkyo Katatetori Menuchi Kokyunage Ryotetori Kokyunage Ryotetori Tenchinage Ushiro Tekubitori Ikkyo Ushiro Tekubitori Kokyunage Ushiro Tekubitori Kotegaeshi

Zagi (Katadori Ikkyo) Hanmi Handachi Katatetori Ryotemochi Kokyunage Ushiro Tekubitori Kubishime Sankyo Ushiro Katatori Kukyunage Ushiro Tori Kokyunage Kokyu Dosa (static)

You must first pass the ki Jokyu examination

2 Kyu

Static techniques Kokyunage Ryotetors Tenchinage Ryotetors Ushiro Tekubitori Kokyunage Ushiro Tekubitori Kotegaeshi Ushiro Tekubitori Kubishime Sankyo Zagi (Katadori Ikkyo) Kokyu Dosa

Movement techniques Kokyunage Kokyunage Kickers Shihonage kickers Kaitennage Kaitennage katatators Shomenuchi Kokyunage Shomenuchi Kotegaeshi Yokomenuchi Kotegaeshi Yokomenuchi Shihonage Katatori Nikkyo Katatori Sankyo

3 Kyu

Static techniques Katatori Nikkyo Sankyo katteurs Yonkyo Yonkyo katatori Ryotemochi Ikkyo Ikkyo Katateurs Kokyu Dosa

Movement techniques Ikyo Ikkyo Kickers Kokyunage kickers Shomenuchi Kokyunage Yokomenuchi Kokyunage Munetsuki Kokyunage Katatetori Ryotemochi Kokyunage Katatetori Ryotemochi Kotegaeshi Kotegaeshi Ikkyo (tenkan)katatators

You must first pass the ki Chukyu exam

4 Kyu

Static techniques Ryotemochi Kokyunage Katateurs Shihonage Katateurs Katatetori Kokyunage (tenkan) Katatori Ikkyo Kokyu Dosa

Movement techniques Katatekosatori Kokyunage Shomenuchi Ikkyo Munetsuki Kotegaeshi Yokomenuchi Shihonage

5 Kyu

Static techniques Katatekosatori Kokyunage Shihonage katatakteurs Katatori Ikkyo Kokyu Dosa

Movement techniques Shomenuchi Ikkyo Munetsuki Kotegaeshi

You must first provoke the ki Shokyu examination

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Syllabus for ki exams

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Shokyu

Test 1

Mind and body coordination Standing with unified mind and body Unbending arm Extend one arm with weight on the underside Sitting seated and standing upright Seated in seiza

Developing ki-ulu Koho Tento Undo Tekubi Shindo Undo Funakogi Undo Shomenuchi Ikkyo Undo Ki breathing

Chukyu

Test 1

Mind and body coordination Sitting cross-legged, being pushed from behind and being lifted by one knee Extending one arm, being pushed by the wrist Leaning backwards Boot The body unstrung

Developing ki-ulu Zengo Undo Happo Undo Tekubi Kosa Undo, to the right of the point and to the right of the face Sayu Undo

Shokyu examination test 2 is added; for ki breathing, inhale/exhale minimum 10 seconds

Jokyu

Test 1

Mind and body coordination Back leaning on your partner Leaning forward on your partner Extend one arm and lift one leg Both arms held up Walking forward held from behind Sitting cross-legged and pushing from the shoulders

Developing ki-ulu Udefuri Undo Ushiro Tekubi Tori Undo Ushiro Tori Undo Udefuri Chuyako Undo Tenkan Undo

Addition of Chukyu test 2 and Shokyu test 3; for ki breathing, inhalation/exhalation minimum 15 seconds

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Dictionary forms of attack

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Katatekosatori	Hold one of your partner’s wrists in a crossed posture
Katettors	Hold a partner’s wrist, mirror pose
Katadori	Hold one shoulder or partner’s chest, mirror pose
Katadorimenuchi	Hold one shoulder of partner, mirror stance; partner responds with punch
Shomenuchi	Looks (cuts) partner’s head upright, cross posture
Yokomenuchi	Looks (cuts) partner’s head obliquely, mirror pose
Munetsuki	She pokes her partner’s belly
Katatetori Ryotemochi	Hold a partner’s wrist with both arms, mirror pose
Ryoteteurs	Hold both partner’s wrists, mirror pose
Ryokatatori	Hold both of your partner’s shoulders, crossed posture
Ushiro Tekubitori	Hold both partner’s wrists from behind
Ushiro Hagai Jime	Hold both partner’s arms from behind
Ushiro Katatori	Hold both partner’s shoulders from behind
Ushiro Tekubitori Kubishime	Hold one of your partner’s wrists and strangle with the other hand from behind
Ushiro Tori	Treach around and hold your partner from behind

The main goal of Taigi is to practice rhythmically, with Ki, through the coordination of mind and body.

Practising Taigi requires both partners to move fluidly and harmoniously together. Therefore, the relevant in Taigi practice is to perform large, rhythmic movements, both partners stepping their mind and body coordination.

Taigi is performed as follows: first the partners greet each other; then they practice each art individually, on both sides (left/right); after each art the partners can be tested to ensure that they maintain their mind and body coordination; the partners then perform the whole Taigi. During the Taigi partners will be timed. The time required to perform the Taigi is the stipulated time +/- 2 sec. The timer starts with the starting salute and stops after the final salute. This final salute will be performed in the position of the start salute. The salute lasts 3 sec.

Boken and Jo kata are also Taigi. These are to be performed only once. As only one person is practising only the amplitude, rhythm and duration of execution will be considered.

Green belt students should be familiar with Taigi no.1.
Students who have obtained the black belt 1 Dan must be familiar with Taigi no.2, 3, 6.
Students who have obtained the 2 Dan black belt must be familiar with Taigi 4, 7, 8, 9.

 

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Taigi 1

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Katatetori Kokyunage Kokyunage Kokyunage Kaiten Nage Shihonage Ikkyo

58 seconds (Sayu Undo) (Kirikaeshi) (Zenponage) (Tenkan) (Tenkan)

 

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Taigi 2

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Katatetori Ryotemochi Kokyunage Kokyunage Kokyunage Kokyunage Nikkyo Kotegaeshi

58 seconds (Tobi Komi) (In Undo) (Hachi no Ji) (Zenponage) (Tenkan) (Katameru)

 

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Taigi 3

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Yokomenuchi Sweat Ojigi Irimi Shihonage Kokyunage Kokyunage

43 seconds (Irimi) (Sweat Nage) (Hachi no Ji)

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