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AIKIDO AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: A STUDY OF PSYCHOTHERAPISTS WHO ARE AIKIDO PRACTITIONERS
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ABSTRACT: Eight psychotherapists who were also highly skilled in Aikido, a non violent Japanese martial art based on the principles of harmony and the peaceful resolution of conflict, participated in this semi-structured interview study investigating how their practice of Aikido informed their psychotherapy practice. Eight themes emerged: Aikido resulted in a mind-body unification which was described as being physically and psychologically healing; being centered in Aikido was essentially the...
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AIKIDO AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: A STUDY OF PSYCHOTHERAPISTS WHO ARE AIKIDO PRACTITIONERS
Journal of Transpersonal Psychology
; ABSTRACT: Eight psychotherapists who were also highly skilled in Aikido, a non violent Japanese martial art based on the principles of harmony and the peaceful resolution of conflict, participated in this semi-structured interview study investigating how their practice of Aikido informed their
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For martial artist, aikido is a way of life.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; PHILADELPHIA _ Keith Badyna had just finished his Christmas shopping and his mood was as merry as the Santa hat he was wearing. He was about to unlock his car at the Montgomery Mall when a wild-looking man suddenly confronted him. ``Give me your money the man demanded. Badyna played dumb, stalling
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AIKIDO: THE WAY OF HARMONY
Roanoke Times & World News
; Ron Malachowsky was bruised, tired and sore after taking his first class in aikido, a Japanese martial art. But even after numerous tumbles and lingering aches and pains, he couldn't wait to learn more. "It was love at first fall," he said. Malachowsky, 51, started taking aikido classes nine years
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 "Morning Call (Allentown, PA)")
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Competition heats up, and cools down: Today's martial arts exhibition includes aikido, which stresses harmony over competition.
Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
; ... competing against one another. Copyright (c) 2006, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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Aikido's Gentle Martial Plan
The Washington Post
; AS PRACTICED on the mat, aikido circles the newcomer's senses. There I stand in the dojo, my feet cold because my shoes are on a shelf near the door, as ever-changing pairs of earnest lawyers and GS-12s and artists and teachers attentively sweat through the small steps, instinctive holds and
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Locating lessons inside contention; Aikido black belt asks us to embrace energy
Concord Monitor
; Unlikely Teachers: Finding the Hidden Gifts in Daily Conflict by Judy Ringer intrigued me right away. Go ahead, I thought, make my day. I've spent many years trying to avoid or at least manage conflict before it goes nuclear. Without complete success. Oh yes, I've engaged in some rip roarers with
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Falling for Aikido: Martial art stresses evasive body movements in self-defense
Charleston Gazette
; bcalwell@cnpapers.com 348-5188 In one, fluid movement, Steve Patterson fell from a full, standing position and then rolled back onto his feet, cat-like. Patterson, a first-degree black belt in the traditional Japanese martial art of Aikido, was helping his beginning students learn the same types of
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Falling for Aikido: Community center class stresses evasive movement
Charleston Gazette
; bcalwell@cnpapers.com 348-5188 In one, fluid movement, Steve Patterson fell from a full, standing position and then rolled back onto his feet, cat-like. Patterson, a first-degree black belt in the traditional Japanese martial art of Aikido, was helping his beginning students learn the same types of
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Aikido class stresses evasive body movements
Charleston Gazette
; bcalwell@cnpapers.com 348-5188 In one, fluid movement, Steve Patterson fell from a full, standing position and then rolled back onto his feet, cat-like. Patterson, a first-degree black belt in the traditional Japanese martial art of Aikido, was helping his beginning students learn the same types of
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Aikido class stresses evasive body movements: Martial art focuses on awareness and self-defense
Charleston Gazette
; bcalwell@cnpapers.com 348-5188 In one, fluid movement, Steve Patterson fell from a full, standing position and then rolled back onto his feet, cat-like. Patterson, a first-degree black belt in the traditional Japanese martial art of Aikido, was helping his beginning students learn the same types of
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