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Highlights from 2025 July Taimyo week – The Space of Love: Aikukan
by Connie Borden Taimyo practitioners from around the globe gathered via ZOOM from 20 to 26 of July 2025. The week began on Sunday 20 July with Masashi Minagawa, Doshu giving a talk on Aikukan. Here is one part of the message from Minagawa Sensei: “Our theme this...
Hiroshima Commemoration Project
by Matt Shorten The founders of Shintaido realized the world needed new approaches to conflict resolution, as they acknowledged many of the old ways were no longer useful. On August 6th and 9th, people around the world will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of the...
Weekend in San Francisco Bay Area to honor HF Ito
by Connie Borden Shintaido of America arranged for two Keiko to celebrate H.F. Ito on the weekend of 17 & 18 May 2025. Nicole Beauvois, who lives in France, was in the SF Bay Area for these events. Saturday’s morning Keiko was on Mount Tamalpais , a peak in...
A Virtual Global Taimyo Community Gathering: The Space of Love Aikukan 愛空間
July 20-26, 2025 by Tomi Nagai-Rothe Peace practitioners from around the globe will gather for a week of virtual shared practice and community dialogue about how the Space of Love can inspire our practice and life. We hope you will join us across space and time to...
Let’s meet at Ten in Montague
By Mark Bannon The announcement for the Shintaido Northeast Kangeiko 2025 went out in January. Kangeiko means cold-weather practice and is a time to come together for keiko. This year's Kangeiko theme was Cultivating Inner Life: Finding Freedom in the Form. The event...
Pacific Shintaido Kangeiko 2025
by Byron Russell Over the 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, Pacific Shintaido hosted its annual Kangeiko workshop in the Technology Middle School gymnasium in Rhonert Park, California. General Instructors Shin Aoki and David Franklin led the four keiko, guiding us...
Highlights from 2024 – Shintaido of America Activities
By Connie Borden, Shintaido of America President As a year ends, it is often time to reflect on what has been accomplished. Here are some highlights from Shintaido of America for 2024. 2024 was a year of transitions, starting with the death of Ito Sensei at the end of...
Highlights from 2024 – Shintaido of America Activities
By Connie Borden, Shintaido of America President As a year ends, it is often time to reflect on what has been accomplished. Here are some highlights from Shintaido of America for 2024. 2024 was a year of transitions, starting with the death of Ito Sensei at the end of...
Scattering Ito Sensei’s Ashes in Japan
by Nicole Beauvois I arrived on 3 October, 2024 to prepare for the ceremony with our hosts Mr. and Mrs. Yamazaki who are long-time friends of Fugaku and own the inn at Mt Asama. Thanks to new technologies, we were able to communicate using a little English and a...
Sayonara Shintaido of America
by Michael Thompson As I wind down my 50+ year Shintaido career, I’m starting to look back on all that as happened during that time. When I had come back to the U.S. after my introduction to Shintaido in France, I started to teach it in Geneva NY, where I had had a...
Body Dialogue Special Edition Dokan 2024
by Robert Gaston Dokan 2024 International gasshuku, in a significant way, started for us at different times. For the organizing team and Director of Instruction it began several years ago after the 2021 exams. Plans and theme ideas began percolating in their heads,...
Seeking What Works
by T. Nagai-Rothe PART 1: Shintaido “Software” When I began practicing Shintaido in 1988 in San Francisco, there were many teachers and students. Most everyone was young-ish and physically strong. I was in my early 30s. I loved Ocean Beach in the morning and being...
Shintaido and Balance
by Pamela Olton One day this spring, I was wandering around the desktop of my Mac, clearing out old files, trashing grade documents from classes I will never teach again. But the mouse arrow kept skating over a pile of “screen shots.” As I was pulled into the pile, a...
My Relationship to Shintaido Over the Years
by Sally GastonWhen Connie asked if I would be willing to write a “Body Dialogue” article about my experiences in practicing Shintaido these last few years and my decision to challenge boh and Shintaido exams I did not entirely know where to begin. Shintaido has...
Messages of the Universe
By Lee Ordeman Age changes us, and as we bring our changed selves to keiko, we are forced to make accommodations if we are to continue to do it. At first this can feel like a disappointment. But in time the compromises we must make, surprisingly, fail to compromise...
Bohjutsu Workshop held in Cotati California
The Shoshi-no-kon bohjitsu workshop was held Sunday May 19 2024, in Cotati, California. Robert Gaston, Senior instructor and SanDan Bohjutsu taught two keiko and associated kumiboh. Sally Gaston and Nicole Masters organized the workshop. Nicole...
John Bevis – Interview and Impressions of Advanced Student Evaluation
Interviewed by Jim Sterling Please tell us a little about your personal life. I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1945. I grew up in the greater Cincinnati area. I started high school in the public school system but due to circumstances, namely me not wishing to be in...
French Bohjutsu Workshop – Shoshi no Kon Kata
By Rob Gaston Here is a brief report of my trip to Macon France to attend the ETC boh workshop in which Alain Chevet presented Shoshi no kon boh kata that Ito developed over the last 15 years. This kata had as its starting point as Sueyoshi-no-kon kata, the sho-dan...
Shotokai Karate and Shintaido
by Daniel Raddock My first exposure to karate keiko was practicing with a student of Tsutomu Ohshima, founder of the Shotokan Karate of America school, in New Orleans, when I was studying in law school in the early ‘90s. I was interested primarily in the self-defense...
Welcome Shintaido of America Board Members!
By Connie Borden, the Shintaido Of America Board President Welcome Jim Sterling and David Palmer as new SOA Board Members! Shintaido of America board has had several vacancies in the past few months, so we thank Jim and David for agreeing to an interim board...
Into the Blue – SNE Kangeiko 2024
by Heather KuhnI arrived at the Petersham Town Hall with a heavy feeling the size of a grapefruit in my solar plexus. It was mostly grief with an edge of an almost stubborn need to honor the mounting deaths in our local and larger Shintaido community. I was a little...
Membership subscriptions are now open!
Spring 2024 Greetings from the board of Shintaido of America! It’s time to renew your membership.This past year has seen many changes for our organization. The most important were the loss of our beloved co-founder, Ito-sensei on 30 December 2023, and the sad passing...
Pacific Shintaido Kangeiko 2024
by Derk RichardsonOver the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, Pacific Shintaido hosted its annual Kangeiko workshop in the Claremont Middle School gymnasium in Oakland, California. Master Ito Sensei died on December 30, 2023, just a few weeks before Kangeiko 2024,...
H.F. Ito: a Personal Remembrance
by Tomi Nagai-Rothe Navigating Roles and IdentityI met H.F. Ito (“Ito” to most of us) in May 1988 when I began practicing Shintaido in San Francisco. At first, I knew him through his students who were my teachers – Jim Sterling, Connie Borden, and Ben Schireson. When...
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