Aiki Spirit-Iowa

Aiki Spirit-Iowa Aiki Spirit uses staff (bokken, cane, shinai) and hand techniques with soft flowing movement. There are no specific begin dates throughout the year.

風 流 心 道
AikiSpirit: Wind And Water-Flowing Heart-Mind Way

Gentle Flowing Aiki

This is a formal martial art class that can be started at any time. Regular attendance can lead to martial art promotion and eventual black belt certification. Beginning practice 7/11/2021 with Covid vaccination completed. AIKISPIRIT is a practice of a style of martial art that incorporates a variety of specific

skills. Overall, the style emphasizes principles of graceful flowing movement to overcome strength [風 流 心 道]. And it emphasizes a philosophy of martial arts as peaceful rather than as aggressive [武 德 求 世]. Not based on aerobic conditioning and strength, it is a body-mind activity that can improve both skill and calmness with age rather than decrease with age. Martial Spirit can enhance body physiology, psychological calmness, and spiritual connection. The class develops proficiency with the middle staff [jo (J.) or jung buong (K.)] through forms, techniques and sparring, along with training in aiki-flowing and grasping defense techniques and sword forms. Classes are non-aggressive and peaceful. While the class does not stress aerobic conditioning or strength or flexibility, it does require general physical capability. Two Rivers Martial Arts: Sunday, 9:30AM—Noon

03/15/2026
Congratulations to Mrs. Jeanine Abrons for promotion to 3rd kyu in Aikispirit!!!
02/08/2026

Congratulations to Mrs. Jeanine Abrons for promotion to 3rd kyu in Aikispirit!!!

AikiSpirit: Harmony, not Harming
01/14/2026

AikiSpirit: Harmony, not Harming

Spontaneous photos with some Aikispirit and Kobudo practitioners at Two Rivers Martial Arts for holidays!!
12/21/2025

Spontaneous photos with some Aikispirit and Kobudo practitioners at Two Rivers Martial Arts for holidays!!

Congratulations to Mr. John Rooker for promotion to 3rd kyu in Aikispirit!!
12/21/2025

Congratulations to Mr. John Rooker for promotion to 3rd kyu in Aikispirit!!

Image: Zheng Lu.PNGAIKI AS TAKEMUSUOriginal Martial Spirit, now Aikispirit, aspires to actualize ‘takemusu aiki,’ whic...
11/12/2025

Image: Zheng Lu.PNG

AIKI AS TAKEMUSU

Original Martial Spirit, now Aikispirit,

aspires to actualize ‘takemusu aiki,’ which was a concluding approach of Morehei Ueshiba’s lifetime of practice.

Most martial practices aspire to meet assault with counter-assault—violence to resolve violence.

Aikispirit aspires to neutralize assaultive force, using no strength, no pull, no aerobics, nor flexibility in a way that diffuses aggression.
It involves total body relaxation, deflection. leverage and flow.

Aikispirit builds this process through practice with tai chi, staff, wooden sword, cane, and hand techniques that share and reveal patterns of circles/spirals, calmness, flowing ki. This moves beyond martial practice to a state of ‘grace and ‘eloquence.’

Uniquely, in the deep spirit of Takemusu Aiki, Aikispirit emphasizes allowance of aggression to complete the force, rather than using aiki techniques to typically ‘attack’ and redirect the forces as a sort of 'soft' counter-assault. In Aikispirit, it is the aggressor who controls himself/herself.

As a result, Aikispirit aspires in its overall ‘mission statement’ to calm and protect BOTH aggressor and Aikispirit practitioner and, thus, transform the encounter from being one of conflict to one of harmony.

Cane tactics day!
10/05/2025

Cane tactics day!

Congratulations to Mrs. Jeanine Abrons for promoting to 5th kyu in Martial Spirit/Aikispirit!! Completion to this point ...
09/28/2025

Congratulations to Mrs. Jeanine Abrons for promoting to 5th kyu in Martial Spirit/Aikispirit!!

Completion to this point is a survey of qigong, tai chi, kendo elements, wooden sword, open handed Aiki core hand elements, and middle staff intro forms and sparring using relaxation and flow that perhaps a couple hundred participants have never completed. Doing so opens a well-earned pathway into glimpsing and beginning to operate a process inherent in all of these practices. For example, gripped hand into perhaps nikyo technique flowing into henka waza shift mid-stream to a new technique into kaishi waza counters. Underwhelming vs. overpowering, doing more with less, receiving and blending—all while optimizing safety, relaxing and diffusing vs.counter- assault that only deepens and that outspreads into calmness in everyday life.

Congrats for publication, Robert Nadeau Shihan!! A deep bow your way!Aikispirit-Iowa
07/17/2025

Congrats for publication, Robert Nadeau Shihan!! A deep bow your way!
Aikispirit-Iowa

Congrats to Mr. John Rooker for promotion to 5th kyu in Aikispirit!!!!
07/06/2025

Congrats to Mr. John Rooker for promotion to 5th kyu in Aikispirit!!!!

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