By Jim Sterling After many hours of filming and editing we are happy to provide a series of 12 videos that show some of the movements practiced during Pacific Shintaido…
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Shintaido in The Time of Covid : Across Space and Time
By Sandra Bengtsson Listening to a program on the radio about a vaccine for Covid 19, I heard the following statement: “We can’t use the outdated techniques of January 2020…
Read moreShintaido Quebec September 2019
By Dan Raddock & Mark Bannon Last September (2019), Master Instructor Ito led, and Shintaido Quebec, hosted a Shintaido Kenjutsu Master-class followed by a weekend Shintaido open-hand workshop including examinations…
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by Stephen Billias The coronavirus has been a terrible crisis for our times. It has affected my family directly. My first cousin Stephen Antonakos, a New York City musician who…
Read moreRediscovering Kyukajo: Pacific Shintaido Kangeiko 2020
By Derk Richardson When Pacific Shintaido invited Master Instructor H.F. Ito to be the special guest instructor for the PacShin Kangeiko 2020, it was with a poignant sense of historical…
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Interview by Sarah Baker – January 2020 What is Shintaido Kenjutsu? Shintaido means “New Body Way,” or we could also call it a new art movement of life expression. When…
Read moreJames Cumming’s Boh
by Stephen Billias James Cumming, a longtime Shintaido practitioner from England now living in Brattleboro, Vermont, has given me his boh (six-foot staff) and has asked me to find a…
Read moreAttending European Shintaido College 2019 in Reims, France
By Mark Bannon and Connie Borden The European Shintaido College (ESC) held their fall gasshuku from Wednesday 31 October 2019 to Sunday 3 November 2019 in Reims, France. Reims is…
Read moreThe History of Taimyo for World Peace and Healing
By H.F. Ito This is my story of using Taimyo Kata for world peace and healing over the past 20 years. It is a story about friendships and collaborations, world…
Read moreGentle Shintaido
by H. F. ItoShintaido Master Instructor What is Gentle Shintaido? Since this Spring Gentle Shintaido has been the topic European Technical Committee instructors have wanted to discuss. Looking back at…
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