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Craig is joined by Dean Suter, creator and host of the Musha Shugyo podcast, for a discussion on preservation and promotion in the traditional, classical and contemporary martial arts. 

If you haven't already, check out Dean @mushashugyopodcast on Instagram and check out the Musha Shugyo podcast either directly at https://mushashugyopodcast.buzzsprout.com/ or by searching in all good podcast players.
 
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Show Notes: 
Wendy Palmer passed away on December 2nd, 2022. In honour of her passing I’m publishing a recast of the interview we had in March 2022. If you’ve not heard this conversation I know you’ll find it compelling. If you have, I suspect it may land a level deeper on second listen, knowing that her words are now reaching us from the beyond the boundaries of this earthly realm. 
 
In this insightful conversation Wendy offers the wisdom she has spent a lifetime embodying. She held a seventh degree black belt in the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido, and was a mindfulness practitioner for over 40 years. 
 
Drawing on the skills honed from both of these practices, she shares deceptively simple, fast and effective practices that support you to recover to center in stressful situations and respond creatively when life throws you off balance.
 
Wendy speaks to: 

•  the essential Aikido practice of “letting the attack land in the space”
•  the 3 most essential qualities of leadership
•  what it means to be truly resilient
•  why boundaries don’t work and what actually does
• the levels of challenge we move through when we are practicing mastery

She also addresses the 3 strategies of personality self: 

• head wants control
• heart wants approval
• gut wants security

And she teaches how we can access the powerful antidotes of perception, compassion and courage.

Wendy’s website: www.leadershipembodiment.com
7 Guided Practices to Recover to Center

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I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Barnard Kwan. Life long martial artist who began with Aikdo and eventually found his way to the internal arts and mainly Bagua. Bernard Kwan is a disciple of C S Tang!

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Will and Matt are finally here to discuss a Steven Seagal film... for better or worse... Topics include: out of shape montages, house dojos, and Steven Seagal solving a mystery! 
,,,Plus so much more!

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HARD TO KILL
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starring: Steven Seagal; Kelly LeBrock; William Sadler

Craig is joined by Miles Kessler, talking about Shu Ha Ri and much more. 

Check out Miles on Instagram @mileskessler and his website The Integral Dojo (www.theintegraldojo.com)

In the episode, Miles mentions his free Shu Ha Ri reference guide which you can download here: https://store.theintegraldojo.com/shu-ha-ri-free-reference-guide

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Thank you, Gentiana!
Welcome to the CHANGE THE CULTURE podcast dedicated to preventing and reducing interpersonal violence through Empowerment Self Defense! 

Gentiana Susaj, (SUSAI) is a lawyer with post-university studies in International Migration, Human Rights and Development, with over 20 years of experience in anti-human trafficking and refugee protection in Europe and Latin America.  

Since 2017, she began combining her experience on human rights with the Aikido martial art for empowerment for victims of trafficking in human beings and women and girls.

Gentiana is a former member of the International Leadership Visitor Program of the Department of the United States for her work on anti-trafficking in Spain, Gender Champion in Albania for her work to bring ESD into Schools, Gentiana is Aikido Shodan and ESD Instructor, currently leading ESD Global Self Defense in Europe.

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She is a wife and mother, and the founder/producer of "Spotlight on Women". 
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In this (Final) part of Craig's conversation with passionate Aikido practitioner and teacher, Nick Regnier, we talk about Nick's upcoming seminar, plans for the future and how to attract a new generation to the traditional arts, without losing their inherent values.

Check out Nick  @aspireaikidolondon on Instagram, https://www.aspireaikidolondon.co.uk/ and, of course, his YouTube channel  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5t0M64Mu6GPXejkqj7vVIw 

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Dette er den tredje av seks episoder i en miniserie om kampformer fra hele verden. I denne episoden skal vi se på kampformer fra Korea.

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This episode is Part Two of  Craig's conversation with passionate Aikido practitioner and teacher, Nick Regnier, about his Budo journey, some of the personal challenges he has overcome, and his views on real life application.

 Check out Nick  @aspireaikidolondon on Instagram, https://www.aspireaikidolondon.co.uk/ and, of course, his YouTube channel  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5t0M64Mu6GPXejkqj7vVIw 

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The New Flesh presents a special edition podcast: Mano A Mano. In this first addition of Mano A Mano, Ricky and Jon are joined by Yuri G to talk everything Steven Seagal and to review "Under Siege" [1992] and "Marked For Death" [1990].

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In this episode, Craig talks to passionate Aikido practitioner and teacher, Nick Regnier, about his Budo journey, some of the personal challenges he has overcome, and his views on real life application.

 Check out Nick  @aspireaikidolondon on Instagram, https://www.aspireaikidolondon.co.uk/ and, of course, his YouTube channel  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5t0M64Mu6GPXejkqj7vVIw 

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Denne gangen skal vi høre om Minoru Mochizuki som var en genial kampformutøver. Mochizuki var en av 1900-tallets viktigste bidragsytere når det gjaldt å spre informasjon om japanske kampformer i Europa.

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Legg gjerne inn en vurdering eller noen stjerner på Apple Podcasts eller Spotify også! Det hadde jeg satt stor pris på.

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This week author and translator John Stevens joins us from Hawaii. Stevens has penned many books over his long career, mainly dealing with Japanese martial arts, poetry, and biography.

“A book should be enlightening for the writer, and for the people reading it.” —John Stevens

Amy starts off the show mentioning the books of Stevens that she has read: The Marathon Monks of Mt. Hiei; The Essence of Aikido: Spiritual Teachings of Morihei Ueshiba; Dew Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan; and Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda. Yet that is only a fraction of the works that Stevens has produced over his life.

He explains his translation style and how he manages to capture the essence of haiku in his translations. He names Arthur Waley as an exemplar of the craft.

“A good translation has to be good literature, fine literature."

Stevens talks about his first book, One Robe, One Bowl (Tuttle Publishing).

His second book was Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda (White Pine Press). Of his books on aikido, he says the most popular has been The Art of Peace: Teachings of the Founder of Aikido (Shambhala), which has over 2,300 ratings on Amazon and has been further translated into over 20 languages.

Amy reads a poem from Dew Drops on a Lotus Leaf (Shambhala), which prompts Stevens to talk about his passion for poetry and translation:

"If you don’t feel the passion and the poignancy, then it’s not a translation.”

When talking about the writing process:

"Writing a book should be enlightening, for both you writing it and for the people reading it," says Stevens. "My writing was an extension of my [Aikido] practice.”

Other popular books by Stevens are The Essence of Aikido: Spiritual Teachings of Morihei Ueshiba (Kodansha International), and The Marathon Monks of Mt. Hiei (Echo Point Books & Media).

Stevens tells a story of going to Sendai to meet a master Aikido teacher, Shirata-sensei, in Yamagata. "I’d arrive at the dojo, no one was there. He was there. He was never not there. And he was sitting, meditating. I learned something: that if you’re a teacher, you’ve got to be there all the time.”

The author and translator also talks about his book Lust for Enlightenment (Shambhala) and why it was controversial, as well as Tantra of Tachikawa Ryu: Secret Sex Teachings of the Buddha (Stone Bridge Press).

More recently, Stevens has been working with art exhibitions and writing exhibition catalogues. He is currently working on a display in Spain centered around the Kyoto poet and Buddhist nun Rengetsu at the Gothic Monastery of Pedralbes in Barcelona until May 27, 2022. If you need a primer before you go, get a copy of Stevens's Rengetsu: Life & Poetry of Lotus Moon (Echo Point Books & Media). The Barcelona exhibit, which has been open to the public since November 2021 and is titled "La lluna de Lotus" in Spanish, includes 36 ceramic pieces and 30 paintings and calligraphy by the female artist. 

Lastly, Amy asks Stevens what his favorite books on Japan are:

Poetry and Zen: Letters and Uncollected writings of R.H. Blyth by R.H. Blyth and Norman Waddell
Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetzu T. Suzuki
The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty by Soetsu Yanagi and Bernard Leach

Don't miss John Stevens next book The Art of Budoh: Painting and Calligraphy by Japanese Masters (Shambhala, Dec 2022).

More Books by John Stevens:

Seeing Zen (Floating World Editions)
Sacred Calligraphy of the East (Echo Point Books & Media)
Extraordinary Zen Masters; A Maverick, A Master of Masters, and a Wondering Poet (Echo Point Books & Media)
Budo: Teachings of the Founder of Aikido (Kodansha USA)
The Secret Teachings of Aikido (Kodansha USA)
The Heart of Aikido; The Philosophy of Takemusu Aiki (Kodansha International)
Wild Ways: Ikkyu (White Pine Press)

Philosophy of Aikido (Echo Point Books & Media)

And many, many more!

We're kicking off this Race Hustlers series with the King of Appropriate, the Master of Elbow Breaks, and the Sultan of Lies - Steven Seagal! Tune in to find out who Seagal was before stardom, how he got to Hollywood, and the beginning of the end. Also, this episode’s guest is Rob from McDojoLife who explains to us the art of Aikido. This is the definitive Fraudsters breakdown of one of the world’s most recognizable action movie stars… who is completely full of it.

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(02:56) - It’s all kicks, punches, and breaking of arms! Introducing to our race hustler series… Steven Seagal! Best known for his character Nico Toscani! 

(10:10) - Steven Seagal’s great odyssey to Japan, his path to learning martial arts, and other cinematic and unrealistic articles about him and his heroic actions. 

(22:20) - Above the Law and above the critics: The film turns out to be a box office smash hit in 1988. Also, Seagal to be the next great action superstar and launching his production company in 1990.

(28:18) - The way Steven Seagal took method acting to a whole new level making him the Thanos of identities…

(33:04) - Let’s start with the basics: the photo of a young Steven Seagal and his ambiguous looks. Going to Japan… at what year you ask? Well, it depended on the interview he is in now. 

(38:27) - Back in the ’90s Seagal was interviewed by David Letterman. Listen as the host tries to do everything he possibly can to get his Neanderthal guest to say anything compelling!

(53:28) - “He once chased away a few drunks from the dojo. He was never involved with the Yakuza” - Meet Miyako Fujitani, Steven Seagal’s first wife. 

(1:03:33) - The big martial arts fraud - Rob from the YouTube channel McDojo life shares with us why Steven Seagal is a giant garbage piece of a human being. 

(1:08:52) - Aikido according to Seagal vs. what it actually means - Rob explains how this is a peaceful art that kind of simulates sword attacks but it is not badass stuff. 

(1:26:06) - The really scary stuff about Steven Seagal - Sexual abuse and using his fame as a martial artist to take advantage of people.

(1:31:03) - Acupuncture, the way Steven Seagal met his third wife, how doing this type of eastern healing he would use to sexually assault actresses, and a little more about this shithead’s character.

(1:39:11) - Steven Seagal, a manufactured, CIA agent, “slightly autistic” (his words)    human being, and martial arts master to every powerful person you can think of gets exposed by journalist Alan Richman.

(1:48:52) - Journalist John Conolly breaks down every part of Seagal’s story in his article Man of honor. 

RESOURCES

Above the Law trailer

Shadowman movie trailer

The Late Show with David Letterman, Steven Seagal’s interview.

Steven Seagal Videogame

Steven Seagal on Arsenio Hall 1990.

Sean Connery on Steven Seagal breaking his wrist

Why did Steven Seagal punch John Leguizamo

Steven Seagal and Kelly LeBrock on Arsenio Hall Show.

Steven Seagal on Larry King.

Spy magazine July-August 1993 issue.

McDojoLife on YouTube

McDojoLife on Instagram

McDojoLife on Facebook 

McDojoLife on Twitter

McDojoLife on TikTok

In this episode, we welcome Merle Mckinley, MCC, and hear about her journey into becoming a somatic coach, MCC and coach supervisor.
In her private coaching practice, Confluence, Merle focuses on assisting clients to discover a deeper sense of purpose and satisfaction in their lives. Confluence is the act or process of merging. Through her coaching, confluence, or the merging of one’s body and language, is achieved by focusing on the relationship of body and language and aligning the two.
Merle holds the rank of Shodan (Black Belt) in the martial art Aikido. She lives in Sonoma County, California.

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