Meditative Movement Class Schedule


Classes are approximately 50 minutes long. The cost is $10.00 per class.
 
You simply pay when you attend.  There is no monthly fee.


Schedule of Classes Meditative Movement Classes

Tuesday

 6:00 - 7:00 AM 
Saturday 8:00 - 9:00 AM

Private Lessons are available. Please call or email for details.

Telephone: 949-251-0571

Email: dojo@integrationforall.com



In these meditative movement classes, students are verbally directed through movement sequences designed to produce ease and grace in movement.  In these lessons, the whole organism  (the nervous system, the musculature and the skeleton)  is engaged in harmonious and focused movement.  The movements are carried out very slowly so that one can use the movements to become aware of bracing patterns in the body – to become aware of extra efforting.

As one becomes aware of this “holding,” this “bracing,” this “extra efforting,” one is able to gradually inhibit the impulse, or the urge, to “brace against,” to “ hold-on,” “try too hard.”  Gradually one’s movements become more fluid and effortless.  These lessons have a profound effect on one’s ability to act with precision, power, and spontaneity. 

Increase the Effortlessness
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The “do” of Aikido is translated as “The Way” It refers to a spiritual path or a way of life.  Incorporated in the philosophy of Aikido is harmony with nature.  We practice this physically by trying to harmonize with our attacker, rather than oppose him or her. But this is simply a means to an end.  We seek ultimately, to be in harmony with nature itself.

Nature grows spontaneously, according to the inner promptings of its being.  Nature is incapable of habitual, compulsive, or contrived behavior.  There is then, both an effortless and spontaneous quality to the movement of nature. We cannot force grass to grow.

Two of the qualities that Aikidoka (students of Aikido) strive to develop then, are spontaneous and effortless movement – which is to say, spontaneous and effortless behavior.  Many problems in life are caused by doing too much rather than doing too little.  We often seem determined to effort excessively even when little or no effort is required.  We can see this in our Aikido technique – this tendency to over-effort.

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