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It's Tony here from the Aikido Health Centre with your Harmony Ezine packed with unique tips and insights on aikido, health and well-being.

In this issue... True Aiki Power Teachers - details below. Next issue we turn the spotlight on Your Organic Food Garden... stay tuned!

True Aiki Power Teachers

Unfortunately, like many other martial arts, Aikido student numbers are dropping. The future of traditional and even modern arts are at risk. Sadly, some arts will gradually fade out of existence!

Many of the traditional martial arts have a massive syllabus of techniques. Students usually take years to be able to demonstrate by memory.

Most high ranking instructors tend to have a very tight-knit group around them that get the 'secret training' levels. Are you willing to dedicate 20-30 years in one style to get access to learning these 'Secrets'?

If you repetitively practice techniques without understanding the key principles behind them, are you really improving or just repeating?

I have been studying aiki principles for many years, and principles can be used to vastly improve your skills in whatever art you practice.

Are you interested in the Aiki arts?

Unfortunately, there are not many true Aiki Internal Masters. Of all the many thousands of Aikido and Aikijujutsu instructors and students, only a few have actually Found True Aiki.

Why?

First of all, it is quite difficult to actually track down an aiki master. There are many who say they are, and to the untrained eye, may appear to be, but upon pressure testing, are found to be lacking.

Even if you find a true aiki internal master, you will need to be close enough to visit their training venue. Also, bear in mind, that these few masters have plenty of students, so it is difficult to get training with them.

If you are persistent, you'll find a master that suits you, and do whatever it takes to learn. When you understand a few of their basic teachings...

...then YOU must do daily solo exercises for years. It takes a will of iron to carry out the necessary training to achieve this mystical level.

The main keys are...

Daily Solo Training on developing the body to an extreme level. Also working on the sensitivity required to achieve subtle skills.

I wrote a complete series on Aiki Internal Masters. Of course, they would not regard themselves as masters of Aiki. But, a real master of an art would say that... wouldn't they ;)

Here is a short list of some of the Aiki Internal Masters.

ANCIENT MASTERS

Sokaku Takeda, Yukiyoshi Sagawa, Kodo Horikawa, Morihei Ueshiba.

MODERN MASTERS

Dan Harden, Roy Goldberg, Howard Popkin, Hiroshi Ikeda, William Gleason, George Ledyard, Don Angier, Tony Annesi, etc.

Please Note: these masters have varying degrees of aiki skills... some are better than others (Dan Harden).

I do not have these skills myself. My expertise is in teaching aiki principles that will greatly improve the effectiveness of your aikido techniques.

For full Details and links to each master... Aiki Internal Masters

That's it... next month we discuss Your Organic Food Garden.