" Aiki Peace Week Is Celebrated Every Year By Aikido Students
As Part Of The United Nations International Day of PEACE! "

In 2001, the United Nations declared that September 21st is to be the International Day of Peace. On that day every year, there are ceasefires in hundreds of conflicts around the world.

Many organizations worldwide celebrate that day with thousands of peace day events, benefit concerts, and other events that help focus the world's attention on love, peace and harmony.

The International Aiki Peace Week allows members of the Aikido Community to take part in the global celebration of peace, and to offer Morihei Ueshiba O'Sensei's remarkable vision to the wider world.

A whole week of peace-focused teaching is offered because many Aikido associations, organisations and clubs do not have classes every day, and may not be able to put on an event on September 21st.

This gives us, at the Arun Aikido Club, a unique opportunity to increase public awareness of Aikido as a joyful practice of harmony, compassion, and non-violence. We offer unique classes to the community that teach Aiki principles to manage conflict and prevent violence.

All of our training fees and any donations for the International Aiki Peace Week will be sent to Aiki Extensions who organise the events. They are a non-profit organisation founded in 1998, and dedicated to passing on and applying Aiki principles outside of traditional martial arts training.

Members have applied Aiki principles in such areas as business, bodywork, psychotherapy, teaching, mediation, conflict resolution, and sports.

Tony Wilden, who founded the Arun Aikido Club in 1992, is a full member of Aiki Extensions and committed to offering the community all aspects of the art of Aikido. For full details and to join in please visit... Aiki Extensions

What Is The Art Of Aikido?

Morihei Ueshiba - Founder of Aikido

Aikido is a nonviolent Japanese martial art that offers a practical philosophy of harmony and cooperative action. It includes principles and methods of self-awareness, calmness under pressure, compassionate power, and a respectful connection with others.

Aikido offers martial training, which is uniquely valuable for practicing peace because attack and defense drills offer you an opportunity to train yourself to receive an opponent in a compassionate and harmonious way.

Aiki means not going against the movement, but avoiding the power of an attack. Blending with the attackers energy flow and leading it to unbalance them and take control using minimum force.

The term 'aiki' is also used in discussing and using Aikido patterns of posture and movement in non-martial art activities and daily living. For example the common approach in a verbal dispute is built on a NO - BUT framework... no your idea is wrong, but my idea is right.

The Aiki approach would be a YES - AND approach. First blend with the content and energy of someone's opinion, find the core and express understanding and appreciation for that perspective. And then gradually add new material to lead the discussion where you wish it to go.

Open to members of the public to come along and try Aiki principles. We will be covering a variety of Aiki related activities...

1 - How to be more aware of your surroundings.

2 - How to change your reaction to stress and tension.

3 - How to release problems and experience peace & harmony.

4 - Practising a series of Aiki exercises to feel more peaceful... Unbendable arm, Immovable Posture, Breathing, Meditation & Contemplation, Focusing Attention on your centre, Balance Taking, and much more!

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