‘Respiration, in my experience, is the very foundation of Aikido.’
Itsuo Tsuda, The Path of Less (Chap. XIX)

The teaching that we have received and continue to receive allows us to experience the accuracy of the above quotation. Whether we are quiet in our dōjō, where the atmosphere favours concentration and thus focusing on respiration – which makes our dōjō valuable –,  or when we are away, since the dōjō is then within us.

A demo session of Aikidō was organized by Bodai Dōjō, on 30 January 2016. And it was a real pleasure for all those who took part of it. Starting from February there will be a session every Wednesday at 8 p.m. for those who want to discover the Aikidō of the Itsuo Tsuda School. The dōjō that hosted us, and which will be our home for regular practice, is a dōjō where they practice Jūdō essentially. It is located in Francavilla, 250 km from Rome on the other side of the Adriatic Sea, and lies on the border with Pescara, where Bodai dōjō has already organized a reading with the presentation of the new Yume edition of The Non-Doing and a seminar to introduce to Katsugen Undō.

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