by Régis Soavi In our relationship with the dojo, we often deal with Reishiki (etiquette). From our first contact with ...

by Manon Soavi Tsuda Itsuo sensei said, ‘There is no black belt in mental emptiness’[He also wrote in his first ...

by Manon Soavi Max Stirner wrote in 1844: ‘there are […] intellectual vagabonds to whom the ancestral home of their ...

by Manon Soavi Everyone experiences fear to varying degrees, but we do not all experience the same fears, and when ...

by Manon Soavi Nowadays, some of us no longer want to feel. We no longer want to feel heat, cold, ...

Here is the first of the Six interviews of Itsuo Tsuda by André Libioulle, entitled ‘Breathing, a Living Philosophy’ and ...

[Nov. 19] Manon Soavi was invited by Italian web magazine DeaByDay to talk about “female conditioning through education” and her ...

[Jun. 23] Interview with Manon Soavi for the release of Itsuo Tsuda, The Anarchist Master — The Art of Living ...

[Oct. 22] We are delighted to announce the publication of Manon Soavi's book Itsuo Tsuda, The Anarchist Master, published by ...

by Manon Soavi Our world is sick with violence (whether physical, verbal, psychological, symbolic, social, economic, etc.), sick with a ...

by Manon Soavi Did you know that Morihei Ueshiba, one of the greatest budoka of the 20th century, would shout ...

The search for inner freedom in the practice of Aikidō and Seitai by Andrea Quartino Restrictions on freedom of movement ...

by Régis Soavi It is undoubtedly certainties that cause the most harm in the practice of martial arts, as they ...

by Régis Soavi In the practice of aikido, I have always loved the ken. The sword, like kyūdō in the ...

by Régis Soavi ‘If I have to give my Aikido a goal, it will be to learn to sit, stand ...

by Régis Soavi Talking to my students about the masters I have known is obviously part of my teaching. Some ...

by Régis Soavi Coercion: the act of compelling someone to act. Escape route: a clever and indirect way of getting ...

by Régis Soavi Practising Aikido without using atemis is a bit like trying to play a stringed instrument that is ...

by Régis Soavi Responsibility If the teaching we have received and integrated has changed our lives, if it has allowed ...

by Régis Soavi ‘Ki belongs to the realm of feeling, not to that of knowledge.’Tsuda Itsuo, The Non-Doing, Chap. II, ...

It all started on an ordinary afternoon in my neighbourhood of Blanc-Mesnil in the “93” département[number of French département Seine-Saint-Denis, ...

by Régis Soavi My master Tsuda Itsuo, quoting Ueshiba O-sensei, wrote in his second book: ‘Aikido is an art whereby ...

by Régis Soavi Letting go... letting go... letting go... Forgetting in order to lose our judging habits on others as ...

by Régis Soavi In his teaching, Tsuda Itsuo sensei insisted on visualisation which, linked to breathing, is a means of ...

by Régis Soavi “Non-fighting” is not the same as refusing to fight, in the same way that “non-doing” is never ...

by Manon Soavi Imagine for a few seconds a world in which articles were written about “male Aikido”! With a ...

by Régis Soavi Mystification is the result obtained by someone who uses mystery to deceive others. Mystique or mysticism has ...

Interview with Régis Soavi Why did you start Aikido? I started Judo-jujitsu, as it was called at the time, in ...

by Régis Soavi All aikidoka have heard of Ma ai, because it is one of the foundations of our practice ...

by Régis Soavi ‘“Whether they are one or many does not matter, I put them all in my belly,” said ...

by Régis Soavi Tension and relaxation are the two most visible aspects of the human inner movement; like yin and ...

by Régis Soavi From September 2023, in the Itsuo Tsuda School dojos in Paris, Toulouse and Milan, in addition to ...

by Régis Soavi Shisei is the reflection of the soul as well as the health of the body, both physical ...

by Régis Soavi There are several ways of considering at Jiyūwaza work and each school has its own way of ...

by Régis Soavi When we try to unbalance a person we know instinctively where we must touch, be it physically ...

by Régis Soavi Understanding Riai means going beyond technical correspondences and leaving behind the world of separation. It means accepting ...

by Régis Soavi ‘That is all the master asks, for his teaching to be stolen; for him, it is extremely ...

by Régis Soavi Nowadays it seems that the meaning of the word “pride” has become misleadingly loaded, and pride has ...

by Régis Soavi Teaching in a dojo is a matter of transmission. It is also about bringing people together and ...

by Régis Soavi Fear has a twofold origin: firstly, it is a primitive, atavistic response, already perfectly well known, but ...

by Régis Soavi Is it not a paradox, or even a contradiction, to immobilise in order to unblock, soften and ...

by Régis Soavi Aikido Journal: Does aikidō still have a chance of survival after more than three months of interruption?The ...

By Régis Soavi. Violence is so broad a topic, with such density, that it seems to me impossible to treat ...

By Manon Soavi As an Aikido teacher, as well as a pianist, I went across the notion of Zanshin through ...

by Régis Soavi If we translate Zanshin by ‘sustaining attention after a fight or after a technique’, even if we ...

The Itsuo Tsuda School is a no-grade school, where one can rediscover the freedom of speaking out, of intervening, of ...

By Régis Soavi Why talk about life force while the topic seems old-fashioned (it is considered today as a kind ...

By Régis Soavi For most Westerners, practising Aikido on their knees rather than standing seems to be at first sight ...

In this article, starting from an I Chin hexagram (䷯ jǐng: the well), Régis Soavi discusses with us how the ...

By Manon Soavi ‘[…] The path to in-depth discovery of oneself […]’ said Tsuda sensei ‘is not a straight line ...

by Régis Soavi Seizing in itself is not the difficulty, it is the coagulation of ki in the wrist, the ...

Starting with a theme taken from I Ching hexagram K’an (the Abysmal), Régis Soavi writes in this article about Aikido as ...

By Régis Soavi. Noro Sensei, in the 70’s, used to tell us that O-Sensei Ueshiba Morihei would sometimes reproach his ...

by Régis Soavi The fall in our art – Ukemi – is more than a liberation, mere consequence of an ...

By Manon Soavi I discovered late in life that I was a girl. Of course I knew it, but it ...

by Régis Soavi This seems to be a recurring question in the dojos and one which divides practitioners, teachers, as ...

by Régis Soavi One often tends to consider the spirit of an art as a mental process, a path that ...

by Régis Soavi Aikido is an instrument of my evolution, it made me evolve, I just had to follow with ...

by Régis Soavi Certainly the Jō, the stick, has always been used in Aikido. But does it really belong to ...

by Régis Soavi Talking about omote-ura as an Aikidō subject immediately reminds me about yang-yin (in Japanese: yō-in). Nevertheless in ...

We are pleased to propose this short video showing the work of Régis Soavi. A work that he keeps on ...

by Régis Soavi In one of his books Tsuda Itsuo gives us his views on kokyū: ‘In learning a Japanese ...

Born in 1914, Itsuo Tsuda would now be one hundred years old. This atypical character, fiercely independent, considered himself first ...

Morihei Ueshiba O-sensei used to recite the norito, a Shinto invocation, during his practice. Itsuo Tsuda recited it daily during ...

Writer and director Yan Allégret is interested in aikido and traditional Japanese culture since 20 years. He practiced in France ...

What are Aïkido and the Regenerating Movement? How can we use them to live in daily life? Those are the ...

An interview with Régis Soavi. Our appointment is at 6:45 AM, in Milan's Chinese quarter. The place: a former garage, ...