Griffith Shukan News

Thursday, 19^th March 2009

CONTENTS:

1. Upcoming Seminars Not To Be Missed

2. A Quote From “The Unfettered Mind”

1. Upcoming Seminars Not To Be Missed

Mark your calendar! It is coming around to that time of the year where we have the rare opportunity to attend aikido seminars taught by some of the top aikido instructors in the world. It is also a great opportunity for all of us to train with people from other dojo who are just as friendly as we are.

28^th & 29^th March - Williams Sensei

Williams Sensei is World Chief Instructor in our style of Aikido Yuishinkai. He currently lives in Fiji, holds the rank of 9^th Dan and travels the world disseminating Aikido Yuishinkai. This seminar is for beginners, juniors and seniors alike.

Where: Capalaba Secondary College Assembly Hall, School Rd. Capalaba.

Program: Sat 28th Aikido 9.00 – 11.30am and 2.30 – 5.00pm;

Sun 29th Weapons (basic to advanced) 9.30am – 12.00pm.

Cost: $75 for 3 sessions or $35 per session

ALSO AT

Goshinkan Dojo, Byron Bay

20th & 21st March (next Fri and Sat), 10am-12pm, 2pm-4 pm on both days

$55 ($50 concession) for both days.

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1^st - 2^nd August - Hashimoto Sensei (to be confirmed)

Hashimoto sensei is the founder of Junshinkai Aikido and heads a number of dojo in the Osaka area of Japan. Last year he visited our dojo for the first time and the weekend was a sellout. Sensei is an English teacher by profession and communicates clearly and articulately to a western audience in a very relaxed style.

Where: Griffith Aikido dojo, Griffith University, Nathan

Program: Sat 1^st Aug Aikikids 9.30-10.30am, Aikido 10.30am – 12.00pm,

12.30 – 2.00pm, 2.15pm – 4.00pm

Sun 2^nd Aikido 9.00 – 10.30 am, 11.00am – 12.30pm

Weapons 1.00 – 2.30pm, Black belt only 2.45 – 4.30pm

Cost: Griffith Aikido members $50 (all grades welcome); Non-members $75

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3 - 9 October Annual Seminar Aikido Yuishinkai

Our annual seminar is back in Byron Bay. This is for all grades and a great opportunity to work with many seniors. Leading the seminar will be Maruyama sensei, the founder of Aikido Yuishinkai. Also teaching will be Williams sensei, our World Chief Instructor and Okajima sensei, Chief Instructor of Kansei district, Japan.

Where: Goshinkan dojo, Byron Bay

Program & Cost: To be advised

2. A Quote From “The Unfettered Mind”

”Human consciousness and the objective world unite, sundry thoughts are born, and from these many others are born in turn. Pulled by these thoughts, this body of form is received and produced. It is not simply something strange that has rained down from heaven.

Beginning with the single thought that has no beginning, the multifarious things thus come to be. When you go and look carefully for its source, being a single thought with no beginning, you find that it has none at all. Having no origin at all, the birth of the infinite variety of things could be called a mystery.”

from The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Sōhō (submitted by Ben Hamley)

Shirin Mohebbi

Griffith Aikido Newsletter Editor

Email: shirin(AT)internode.on.net