Message from organizer

This is Keigo Tozawa from Seifukai. My journey in Aikido began under the tutelage of Tatsuru Uchida sensei at Gaifukan-Dojo. With his blessing, I established Seifukai, a dojo in Tokyo, and I am proud to be part of the Musashino Aikido Association.

 

I'd like to share my personal insights into the essence and objectives of Aikido. To begin with, Aikido is a martial art developed in Japan. It has the notable points: it is neither a competitive game nor a lethal method. However, why does Aikido never pursuit of victory and hurt opponents effectively despite the fact that every martial art must be developed for lethal methods or self-defense systems originally?  

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We always presuppose a tense critical situation, that is one of the issues between life and death. Therefore Aikido pioneers strived to find out how to manage the situation through study of not only ancient martial arts but also Yoga, Zen and other methodologies for controlling our body and mind. In other words, Aikido aims for the transcendence of dichotomy between the two such as myself and others. I believe it is an attempt to return to a state in which we can maximize our potential, in other words, to our original physical state of trying to survive as a living organism. Therefore, I never ask you to contrast yourself with others and never pursue how to hurt opponents effectively. Although we're grabbed my wrist and thrusted by a sword or a hand at the beginning of the technique, we don't think that our motion range is decreased, or it takes away our liberty. Rather than that, we interpret the thrusting as a sort of gift from the opponent. From Aikido perspective, we can turn around thanks to the trigger and accelerate our movement more agilely. I mean we never count up what we lost but we count up what we have at the moment, what we can move even under this circumstance. Therefore, the Aikido perspective is that we add some resources coming externally to the rest of the resources I can utilize to create some extremely sublime art.  I also believe that thrusting or attacking would be a metaphor that we usually face "the others" we cannot really understand and sympathize with. That might be illnesses, injuries, neighbors or setbacks. Or "the other" could be yourself. Aikido could imply some hints on how to behave for it and manage to overcome the issues and coexist with them.  In conclusion, Aikido is a sort of philosophy that aims to live together with others strongly and deeply. 

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However, actually I myself did not start Aikido with a clear sense of purpose. I used to go to Dojo while viewing the cherry blossoms along the Ashiya river just because I felt like going there. So Please allow me to stop writing around here because it's difficult for me to explain what Aikido means precisely. Why don't we start Aikido with us? I look forward to seeing you in our Dojo. 

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Fee

 1,000 yen per class.

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Observe or trial

 You're always welcome. Please come to join us anytime when you have time. 

 We'd appreciate if you could e-mail us in advance. the mail addresses are as follows 

   keigotozawa21sep(at)gmail.com, aikidoseifukai(at)gmail.com

 

Others

  Although we have some regulations as a Dojo We'll explain it when you come to our Dojo.