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 SoaviAs an Aikido teacher, as well as a pianist, I went across the notion of Zanshin through several ...

By Régis SoaviIf we translate Zanshin by « sustaining attention after a fight or after a technique », even if we remain ...

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 (? j?ng: 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 towards ...

By Régis SoaviSeizing in itself is not the difficulty, it’s the coagulation of ki in the wrist, the arms or ...

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 SoaviI discovered late in life that I was a girl. Of course I knew it, but it did ...

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 Aikido 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 keep ...

By Régis Soavi In one of his books Itsuo Tsuda gives us his views on kokyu:“In learning a Japanese art, ...

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

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

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

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 rendez-vous is at 6:45 AM, in Milan's Chinese quarter. The place: a former garage, ...