A decade ago I read the book of Tohei and learned meditating from them.
When talking about Ki he wrote (out of memory): “It’s a great concept to guide action. It’s a bad concept to explain things.”
These days I’m mostly living in the framework of Danis Bois with has terms like “Subjective movement” and “inner movement”. I think they are useful for conceptualizing what happens. There are somatic aspects that have nothing to do with biomechanics that are also at work.
Last year I was at training of Aikido Ki techniques. One exercise was about 4 people holding the arms of legs of a person and then the person getting free by letting “Ki flow”.
When I was holding the Ki flow technique was doing very little. Two times the person first got free from the other ones and then used muscle strength to get free. The third time I was holding the arm and the person didn’t get free.
Why? Most of the time I’m holding another person it’s in dancing. I think I didn’t grab the arm with “anger” or “aggression”.
You could label this “aggression” as not freely flowing “ki”. When in aggression mode, I wouldn’t balance things inside my body. Muscles wouldn’t relax themselves and there would be a “weakness” that allows the other person to get free.
A decade ago I read the book of Tohei and learned meditating from them. When talking about Ki he wrote (out of memory): “It’s a great concept to guide action. It’s a bad concept to explain things.”
These days I’m mostly living in the framework of Danis Bois with has terms like “Subjective movement” and “inner movement”. I think they are useful for conceptualizing what happens. There are somatic aspects that have nothing to do with biomechanics that are also at work.
Last year I was at training of Aikido Ki techniques. One exercise was about 4 people holding the arms of legs of a person and then the person getting free by letting “Ki flow”. When I was holding the Ki flow technique was doing very little. Two times the person first got free from the other ones and then used muscle strength to get free. The third time I was holding the arm and the person didn’t get free.
Why? Most of the time I’m holding another person it’s in dancing. I think I didn’t grab the arm with “anger” or “aggression”. You could label this “aggression” as not freely flowing “ki”. When in aggression mode, I wouldn’t balance things inside my body. Muscles wouldn’t relax themselves and there would be a “weakness” that allows the other person to get free.