Articles Aïkido

Complementarity

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

Aikido: an art which emancipates people, an art which emancipates itself

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

Mirror

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

Fudoshin: the immutable mind

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

To unbalance is to destabilise

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

Everything is in everything, and vice versa

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

To see

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

Humble, yes, but proud of yourself

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

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

Fear: an acquired congenital origin?

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

A liberating immobilisation

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

Aikido, a Way of the Normalisation of the Terrain

Par Régis SoaviAikido Journal : ‘Does aikido still have a chance of survival after more than three months of interruption?’ 1Régis ...

Violence, a “Social Fact”

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

Zanshin, the spirit of the ordinary

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

Zanshin, a natural state of the body

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

Senpai-Kohai: The Shadow Ranking System

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

Life Force

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

Relaxation

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

Superficiality or deepening

In this article, starting from an I Chin hexagram (? j?ng: the well), Régis Soavi discusses with us how the ...
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Dojo, another spacetime

By Manon Soavi« […] The path to in-depth discovery of oneself [...] » said Tsuda Sensei « is not a straight line towards ...

Seizing, an art of detachment

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

Misogi

Misogi ? is widely practised among shintoists.It consists of an ablution, sometimes under a waterfall, in a stream, or in ...

Taiheki, the revelator

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

Ukemi : the flow of Ki

by Régis SoaviThe fall in our art is more than a liberation, mere consequence of an action. It is the ...

Coming out of the shadows

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

Is Aikido a martial art?

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

The spirit of Aïkido lies in the practice

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

Aikido: an evolution of the inner being

By Régis SoaviAikido is an instrument of my evolution, it made me evolve, I just had to follow with perseverance ...

Does Aikijo exist?

By Régis SoaviCertainly the Jo, the stick, has always been used in Aïkido. But does it really belong to our ...

Out of dualism

By Régis SoaviTalking about omote-ura as an Aikido subject immediately reminds me about yang-yin (in Japanese yo / in).Nevertheless in ...

spot workshop 2016

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

Kokyu disclosure of the unity of being

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

Meeting the breathing.

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

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

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

Discovering Aïkido and Katsugen Undo, the Art of the Non-doing

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

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