Change Yourself: notes from March Class with Ikeda Shihan

This was originally sent as an email to my students on March 9th.
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I spent some time this evening reflecting on what I learned from Ikeda Shihan this weekend, with the goal of passing on some part of that information to you.

We spent our time studying physical and energetic aspects of Aikido, most of which I can barely comprehend, much less teach. These high level classes can be very mysterious. However, Ikeda Shihan based most of what he was trying to teach us on this simple direction:

"When you are in a conflict, don't try to change the other person,
change yourself."

Well, if we would all work on doing that as best we can, then we wouldn't need much other Aikido would we? If you need some ideas on how to go about doing that, I'm available for further discussion. ;-)

-- With Love, Teacher Nancy Churchill
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