At 6 AM I was wakened by an intermittent pop-pop … pop. It wasn’t the dog. What was it? Sluggish and slow, I got out of bed to investigate. Not the cats nor the kids. Moving to the kitchen I saw the open window and realized it was the roofers starting early on my neighbor’sContinue reading “Sound and Sanity”
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RETURN TO THE MAT – MARCH 2021
March 1, 2021, the first Monday class after almost a full year off the Aikido mat. Restrictions are still in place – masked, no-contact training – which makes for a challenging teaching and learning environment. Aikido is an energetic art: we need to touch each other to understand how to ‘blend’ with the intentional forceContinue reading “RETURN TO THE MAT – MARCH 2021”
BREATHING
Restricted airways and ventilators are all too much in the public discourse because of Covid, and “I can’t breathe” is a sad social commentary on restraint techniques. Not being able to breathe is a frightening experience. As a child I had a bout of croup. I still remember that feeling of suffocation, the abject fearContinue reading “BREATHING”
Protective Arts 