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duas classes de aikido com seu grupo, conheci sua parceira Marion, seus alunos, etc. Escrevemos uma mensagem para Bill Leicht que foi o primeiro a falar em uma rede de Peace Dojos pelo mundo, dividimos uma torta de maca, demos muita risada, tivemos insights que cabem em pequenas frases como to be lost and wet sometimes is good ou Life happens in between. No nosso ultimo dia um bate papo via skype com Daia em Sao Paulo e depois com Paul Linden nos EUA. Uma viagem que comecou na Holanda sob tempo chuvoso comecava a chegar ao fim em clima de sol e festa na regiao da Bavaria. Minha ideia original de voar ate Amsterdam no sabado para embarcar no domingo sofreu uma mudanca. Comprei uma passagem de trem, um leito numa cabine para seis pessoas e teria uma tarde inteira em Amsterdam antes da minha volta. Animado, enviei uma mensagem para Ben e Dineke que conheci em Utrecht e me acompanharam ate entrar na Alemanha por Emmerich onde comecei minha pedalada em solo alemao. A resposta para o convite que fiz para encontra-los foi animadora e ao mesmo tempo frustrante. Adorariam um reencontro no final da viagem para saber de toda a jornada mas estariam ocupadissimos no sabado e a noite ja tinha comprado ingressos para um concerto... Mas algo aconteceu entre nossas trocas de email. Ben fez uma proposta matadora. Dariam seus ingressos para algum casal de amigos, ele viria de Rotterdam, Dineke de Arnhem e propuseram um encontro as 18h na Estacao Central de Amsterdam.rabiscando o moleskineBertran acompanhou de perto a magia deste fechamento da viagem e fomos juntos fazer uma copia do desenho que fiz em frente a cafeteria onde nos encontramos. Todo o processo de criar um presente para dar para Ben & Dineke foi tocante. Ate mesmo a moca da loja de molduras, que a principio pedira uma semana para fazer a montagem, sentindo que era uma lembranca especial se desdobrou para entregar o desenho emoldurado na sexta, em tempo de levar para Amsterdam durante nosso encontro. O mesmo desenho na mesma moldura foi o presente que trouxe para casa pois desde o inicio Daia me disse: - Esse desenho merece um quadrinho!Durante esta semana Daia fez uma pequena cirurgia e estavamos de algum jeito conectados. Na igreja de Saint Peter fizemos uma pausa em nosso passeio pelo centro de Munique no momento que ela estaria sendo operada. Tudo deu certo mas cirurgia e cirurgia. O corpo e desligado por um tempo e tudo fica nas maos do medicos. O ultimo dia em Munique foi dia de Ocktoberfest, a maior festa popular do mundo. Bertram e Marion me apresentaram festa cheia de tradicoes da Bavaria, este ano esta sendo comemorado o bicentenario dessa festa que dura duas semanas e e cheia de atracoes ao ar livre e nas tendas das cervejarias. La comemos, bebemos alguns litros de chopp, conheci as pulgas adestradas e gente especial como Hago, dividindo uma mesa para almocar chucrute com salsichas da regiao. pulgas adestradasocktoberfest 2010com Hago e Marion no bicentenario da
Pereira, em 30/6/2010Mais uma tentativa!!!rsrsrs Mariana Torres, em 31/5/2010Sensei querido, super ideia! Tenho certeza que ao ler o blog e ver as fotos do percurso, das pessoas, das suas descobertas e dos seus desenhos vou acabar viajando junto contigo. Sera um prazer subir na garupa! ;-) Beijinhos, Mari Joao Serfozo, em 30/5/2010Zezito querido, somos todos parte dessa boa viajem!! Na decida e na subida! Especialmente em sua sensibilidade e na batida forte do coracao que transforma o caminho em mais vontade de viver! A paz esta por ai... e vamos celebra-la no rastro de sua bike... com o melhor tempero do Aikido! Isso sera de todos nos. Um brinde a todos nos parte desse projeto!Pedala Zezito! Forte abraco. Joao Serfozo Andre Chamis, em 23/5/2010Sensacional! Leandro Raminelli, em 21/5/2010Caro Sensei, Parabens por essa essa grande ideia!Um abraco e boa viagem, Leandro Raminelli Sergio Assumpcao, em 21/5/2010Boa viagem amigo e parabens. Rita Monte, em 21/5/2010tamo junto, buenovisky!! Rafael Rodolfo Chacon, em 21/5/2010Voce nao esta precisando de um uke para a viajem nao????hahauhauhauhauh Felipe Fagundes, em 21/5/2010Meu Guru: "O sentido acho, e a entidade mais maravilhosa do universo. Relacao, nao coisa, entre a consciencia, a vivencia, as coisas e os eventos. O sentido dos gestos. O sentidos dos produtos. O sentido do ato de existir. Me recuso a viver num mundo sem sentido. Precisamos buscar o sentido. Por isso e proprio da natureza do sentido: ele nao existe nas coisas, tem que ser buscado, numa busca que e a sua prorpia fundacao. So buscar o sentido, faz realmente sentido. Tirando isso, nao tem sentido". Paulo Leminsky Matheus Paiva, em 21/5/2010E pouco, mas e com o que um desempregado como eu pode ajudar!Cassio Sousa, em 20/5/2010e mais Eduardo Shimahara, Fabio Novo, Giovanni Giacomo, JP Amaral, Evelyn Araripe, Lygia Cortez, Jose e Myriam Bueno que tambem fizeram generosas doacoes.
International Aiki Peace WeekDay One - September 20th Message from Tom CrumShortly after September 11, 2001, I wrote about what we, as aikidoka, can bring to the world conflict resolution stage. The thoughts are as relevant now, 9 years later, as they were after that fateful day. In honor of International Aiki Peace Week, I offer these thoughts:Only when we are centered will we be guided to the most effective actions without injuring or implicating the innocent.We can breathe deeply and bring our awareness to center, to gain the courage and ability to let go of judgment, prejudice, and righteousness.We can walk a new path to lead humanity to higher ground. Criminals and terrorists are grown in a soil created by revenge, fear and separation. We can plant our feet in soil based on tough love and centered connection.We can make it our mission to listen actively to each other, to lend our prayers and our helping hands to others, and to seek and appreciate the gift of being together.We can be centered in the possibility of ending the cycle of violence forever. In our own actions and conversations we can help others be aware that force follows force blindly, causing a never-ending cycle of suffering and revenge throughout the ages. Our greatest contribution toward humanity lies ahead of us. May we get centered and embrace it.Tom Crum Sensei of Colorado, author of The Magic of Conflict, The New Conflict Cookbook, Three Deep Breaths, and Journey to Center (amazon link), a leader of personal and business workshops and pioneer in the sort of work that Aiki Extensions exists to promote. Aiki Biking for Peace - 2010 August 24th to September 26th To celebrate my 50th birthday this year I decided to take a time off for a special journey doing things that I really love: to contact people by doing aikido, to move by cycling and to capture images by doing drawings. Three different practices carrying a more appreciative approach for life. When I knew about the International Aiki Peace Week I thought that it would be fantastic if I could connect my personal project with something bigger to inspire people for peace and harmony. Looking at the map of the International Aiki Peace Week website I noticed that some Aiki-Extensions members in Europe had already joined the event. Paul Linden introduced me to Bertram Wohak who invited me to visit Munique and to finish the aiki-biking journey during the IAPW. It was really nice to define the whole route from the arrival point. Friends in Brazil suggested me to start the trip in Amsterdam, famous city for its inspiring culture of cyclism. Hearing other suggestions from a Couchsurfing friend and studying the map of dojos in IAPW I decided to follow the river Rheine from Holand to Germany visiting some AE members mostly in Cologne, Bonn, Berlin, Schweinfurt, Schorndorf, Tubingen and Munique. Willem, Ben, Dineke and Geertje Wessels, Kurial, Thomas Christaller and Sabine, Dirk Kropp and Iris, Rosmarie, Christina Barandun and Helmann, Judith Elze, Rita Bohm, Andrea, Thomas and Maira, Winfried
Wagner and Edith, Gunter, Hanna and Alexandra, Barbara, Ali Nasseri, Silvia and Sara and finally Bertram Wohak and Marion were people that I met during this Aiki biking journey. Lovely people on the road offering a place to stay, breakfast and meals, warm shower and mainly offering time and care. People from whom I learnt a lot about harmony, compassion and cooperation, the heart of Aikido. I really don't care about self-defense, fighting or physical performance when thinking about Aikido. Aikido is all about connection told me years ago Don Levine, the founder of Aiki-Extensions. Indeed. I care about connections of harmony and I could feel it visiting different Dojos in Germany and even off the mat when asking for directions or sharing a table in a cafeteria. This way being an Aiki-Pilgrim, I could confirm my thoughts that its easier to feel deeply connected when doing aikido, cycling or drawing. Now I look forward to continue the project Aiki Biking as a peaceful way to build new bridges of harmony in my country and overseas.Love and gratitudeJose Bueno
International Aiki Peace WeekDay 3 - September 22thMessage from Bertram WohakThose who think deeply about Aikido feel that they must participate in the establishment of a universal system of truth and justice. It is our duty to serve as messengers and guides for world peace and universal brotherhood. Morihei UeshibaImagine the thousands of Aikido practitioners in hundreds of dojos around the world, who are at this moment celebrating their own kinds of Aiki Peace Week event.Imagine the enormous burst of creativity set free by our coordinated action.Imagine the fact that in Aiki Peace Week we can all share O Sensei's legacy regardless of the political divisions and stylistic differentiation we have in the world of Aikido.Imagine a broader public that knows more about Aikido as a joyful practice of reconciliation, compassion, and nonviolence.Imagine what that could mean for you and your dojo.Imagine that from now on, every year, an even greater part of the worldwide Aikido community will celebrate Aiki Peace Week.Imagine the spirit of Aiki spreading out beyond our dojos to become fruitful at many levels, from personal to political.Imagine Aikido becoming an important and well known part of a culture of peace.Imagine that you are making a significant contribution for this to become reality.Bertram WohakBertram Wohak Sensei, a 5th Dan who teaches Aikido and Bodywork in Munich, Germany. Originally a physicist, he operates a private body therapy office and is technical director of the Aikikan Biberkor dojo, which he founded in 1996. He is a Board member of Aiki Extensions and Bertram was one of the people who came up with the idea for Aiki Peace Week nine months ago (the other, Paul Linden Sensei of the US, was featured yesterday). He regularly teaches national and international workshops and retreats for Aikido, Ki-training and what he calls Der Weg des Kriegers zur Kunst des Friedens. International Aiki Peace Week Day 4 - September 23rdAn Aiki MilitaryI first met Birks when he was recently promoted to First Lieutenant, just a year out of The Basic School. He was the officer that supported our efforts running the Marine Warrior Project, the precursor to the Marine Corp Martial Art Program (MCMAP) at Camp Pendleton in 2000. In his support position he was close to the project but wasnt a direct participant, but he was intensely interested and hounded me daily about what we were doing. He was a Division 1 Collegiate wrestler in College and had tried a number of martial arts. He was tough, disciplined, and carried a big heart in his barrel chest. I would show him what we were doing and he would hang around as much as his time allowed. He was a solid Marine and cared about his men and thought what we were doing would help his Marines. At some point I gave him the names of some Aikido dojos in the area and he began training.Over the years I would get emails from Lt. Birks from around the world and he said he was continuing his Aikido training wherever he went. Then I heard a story
about a Marine officer near Falluja, Iraq who had his patrol drop to one knee, take their helmets off, and bow their heads as an Iraqi funeral procession passed by. This diffused a potentially dangerous moment as the funeral crowd was outraged seeing an American unit patrolling nearby and they made threatening gestures. Later the Iraqis spoke the officers virtues in how he respected their culture. Coincidence or not, now Captain Birks unit, suffered minimal casualties in their deployment in this area. Later when I asked Birks about this he simply said, It seemed like the Aiki thing to do.Richard Strozzi-Heckler, 6th Dan (he also holds ranks in Judo, Jujitsu, and Capoeira), author of, among others, In Search of the Warrior Spirit, "Aikido and the New Warrior", and "The Leadership Dojo. Strozzi-Heckler Sensei is an early and prominent teacher of embodied leadership, is founder of the Strozzi Institute and co-founder of the Mideast Aikido Project (MAP), which brings together Palestinians and Israelis through the practice of Aikido. From 2002 to 2007 he was an advisor to NATO and the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe (SACEUR) General Jim Jones, who is now the US National Security Advisor.In 2005 Strozzi-Heckler Sensei was instrumental in setting up the first TAB (Training Across Borders) seminar in the UN Buffer Zone in Nicosia which drew participants from Cyprus, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Israel, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt (ask for a copy of the inspiring video about TAB here). Richard has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, Esalen Institute, Naropa Institute, and the University of Munich.
17.09 O projeto original era seguir de Schorndorf e Tubingen para Zurich. La visitaria Kurt Bartolhet que conheci em Nicosia, Chipre, durante o incrivel encontro entre arabes e israelenses conhecido com Training Across Borders. Anos depois voltamos a nos encontrar num evento em Birminghan, Inglaterra. Mas apesar de perto, percebi que seria demais descer ate Zurich para encontra-lo. E soube por Judith em Berlin que o seminario previsto para acontecer neste fim de semana havia sido antecipado em uma semana. Logo, resolvi incluir uma visita ao lago Bondensee para pedalar e descansar por la antes do ultimo trecho da viagem com destino a Munique. Ali me acompanhou ate a Hauptbanhof (Estacao Central) e segui de trem para Friedrichshafen e de la pedalei ate Lindau num percurso delicioso a beira do famoso lago. Foi uma antiga dica do Nilton, companheiro do Olavo Bikers, que me ajudou a desenhar o percurso da minha viagem. Chegando em Lindau rodei um pouco ate achar o ultimo quarto livre num Gasthaus. Havia tambem um outro casal rodando pela cidade de bicicleta a procura de um lugar e eu consegui esse quarto por questao de 2 ou 3 minutos. Logo eles chegaram e ja nao havia mais vagas. Depois de algumas semanas sendo recebido em casas, apartamentos e dojos durante a jornada pela Alemanha, voltei a ficar num hostel. O ultimo foi em Xanten logo no comecinho da viagem. E o primeiro foi em Amsterdam antes de comecar a viagem. Tive tempo de circular pela cidade, desenhar e de noite tomar um bom vinho e fumar um charuto na calcada. Vista do lago Bondensee a caminho de Lindau18.09 Sabado. Depois do cafe da manha, fiz o check-out as 10h e tive 4 horas para pedalar pelo Bondensee e sentar para fazer algum desenho. As 14h peguei o trem para Ausgburg onde seria recebido na casa de Roman e Barbara Brunner. So haveria gente na casa a partir das 19h entao tive tempo suficiente para circular um pouco pela cidade antes de ir para meu novo abrigo a caminho de Munique. Logo soube que Roman acabara de ir para Polonia visitar seus pais com idade avancada. Curiosidade. Peter Sensei, que tem um Dojo em Ausgburg casou na sexta-feira, logo esta em plena lua de mel. Acabei sendo acolhido por Barbara, que e jornalista, trabalha para a prefeitura da cidade e nao tem nenhuma relacao alguma com o Aikido. E foi fantastico!19.09 Me preparei para tomar cafe da manha com Barbara mas acordei as 10h! A mesa estava feita para mim com paes, frios, queijos, leite, cafe, frutas, geleias, cereais. Um mapa de Ausgburg, a chave da casa e um bilhete: guardar as coisas de geladeira depois do cafe e um convite para nos encontrarmos no fim do dia em frente a Rathaus (prefeitura) para um passeio pela cidade. Peguei minha bike para explorar Augsburg. Visitei o museu de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart e o Fuggerei. O assentamento popular mais antigo e mais duradouro do mundo. Foi criado em 1517 por um membro de uma familia Fugger para atender a populacao
necessitada. Funciona ate hoje, com gente morando e pagam 0,88 centavos de euro por ano! La tambem funciona um museu que conta toda a historia destes 500 anos do Fuggerei. Fora que e lindo.Como combinado, depois de fazer visitar estes lugares sentei para desenhar um pouco e encontrei Barbara no fim do dia como combinado. Fui convidado para jantar comida regional e, claro, uma cervejinha. Otima conversa, otima companhia e otima anfitria. Assim como Hanna, Barbara tambem falava frances e muitas das nossas conversas fluiram melhor em frances que em ingles. De noite resolvi ver a minha passagem Munique-Amsterdam de onde vou voltar para Sao Paulo. Por conta da Oktoberfest os precos estava salgados e nao valeria a pena ir de aviao. O melhor seria na segunda cedo, antes de pegar a bicicleta para Munique, passar numa agencia de viagem e ver as melhores opcoes entre onibus e trem. Quem sabe aviao.
International Peace WeekDay 6 - September 25thPaul Hawken, according to Fortune the original hippie entrepreneur," insists that the world is in the midst of the largest social movement in all of history, the scope of which no one knows and how it functions is more mysterious than what meets the eye (Blessed Unrest 2). The direction and scope of that movement is mysterious because of its complexity, its irreducibility to one agenda or solution despite the powerful forces which bid for unified control on a global scale. As long as there have been human beings, we have most often engaged mysterious complexities through the making of powerful stories, mythologies, far reaching narratives which combine the factual power of lived experience with the imaginative reach and psychological depth of fiction. The center of the largest social movement" Hawken mentions is also a myth, that is to say a hard working idea with enough room for both clarity and mystery. What Joseph Campbell refered to as the "New Myth" has to do with global citizenship - the insistence that peace for everybody is possible, requires practice, and that this practice results in Community, in all the ways that word is used.More than a million people around the world participate in Aikido, a martial practice known as "the art of peace" because its founder, Morihei Ueshiba, made very clear that the purpose of Aikido was not to "train to become powerful or to throw down some opponent. Rather we train in hopes of being of some use, however small our role may be, in the task of bringing peace to mankind around the world. (Aikido and the New Warrior - Strozzi-Heckler 28) This extension of aiki principles beyond the mat requires martial discipline so that the guardians of this ideal are not discouraged while cultivating the skills which make actual peace a reality when conflict is at its hottest and most disorienting. There is natural resistance to repeated labor when a clear end-point is not in sight but, as any martial artist knows, true preparation for real conflict involves innumerable small preparations over time to be ready in as many ways as possible for whatever comes in a moment. That is what Aiki Extensions and International Aiki Peace Week are about. Let's practice peace together.Brandon WilliamsCraig, Ph.D. and 4th Dan of Berkeley, California. Brandon has been a professional actor, vocalist, executive, martial artist, group facilitator, apprentice, and teacher. He considers himself a "Culturesmith" International Aiki Peace WeekDay 2 - September 21thMessage from Paul LindenAn Aiki MomentIn my Aikido classes, from day one, in addition to teaching waza, I emphasize learning how to replace physical feelings of stress, fear, and anger with calm alertness and compassionate power. One of my students, who had been practicing about a month, told me about his aiki moment:I went to Wal-Mart, me and my wife. I was coming out, and I noticed this lady driving down the lane. She wasnt stopping, and I pulled my wife back. The lady almost hit my wife, and just went by, didnt even look
our way. I shouted out, You jerk! I didnt mean to say that, but I did. Her son was standing behind us, and he said Thats my mother youre calling a jerk, (insert here an incendiary racial epithet Im unwilling to print). I thought about what he said, and I thought about Paul and the classes Im taking, and I kept my control. By that time the lady drove back, and I said to her I apologize for what I said, and we kept right on walking. The guy looked at me kind of puzzled. The lady even looked at me puzzled. We got in our car, went on home, nobody went to jail, nobody went to the hospital. My wife even gave me a high five, saying I never saw you do that before, Im very proud of you.My student gained control of himself and the situation. That certainly counts as successful Aikido. Even more, it may have planted the seeds of nonviolence in the driver and her son. That is a living example of what the IAPW seeks to bring into peoples awareness.Id like to end with a request. I would like to write a book titled Accidental Perfection: Moments when Aikido Training Works. It would be a compilation of experiences in which Aikido training clicks into place and allows one to function with unaccustomed ease and effectiveness in some area of life. I would appreciate it if people could send me one or two page descriptions of their Aiki experiences. (I can read German and French, but English is much easier.) PaulLinden@aol.com Paul Linden Sensei, a 6th Dan who teaches Aikido, Feldenkrais, and what he calls mindbody education" in Columbus, Ohio. Paul is the author of several books, was a founding member of Aiki Extensions 12 years ago, and most importantly was one of the people who came up with the idea for Aiki Peace Week nine months ago (the other, Bertram Wohak Sensei of Germany, will be featured tomorrow).