June Sennin Foundation Workshops for Children & Adults

On Sunday, June 24, H. E. Davey Sensei will present special workshops for children and adults at the Sennin Foundation Center. Please mark this date on your calendar.  

The Japanese yoga workshop will be for adults enrolled at our dojo. The subject will be “Awakening Intelligence,” and Davey Sensei will cover Nakamura Tempu Sensei’s ideas about the nature of intelligence and how it can be cultivated by anyone and at any age. For Nakamura Sensei, “intelligence” was defined in a unique way, a way that differs from IQ tests and SAT scores. Davey Sensei, Sennin Foundation Director, will also cover the following associated topics:

• Calmness in action
• Clarity of perception in daily life
• Good judgment
• Positive thinking that enhances creativity 

Instruction in related mind and body unification exercises, as well as forms of practical meditation, will be offered to workshop participants. 

Following Japanese yoga training will be a workshop for children and adults. It will focus on Saigo Ryu martial arts. Specifically, Davey Sensei will cover tanto dori, “knife disarming” techniques. A wooden training knife can be purchased at the dojo, and this workshop will be a continuation of last month’s kids’ workshop on knife disarming. The response to this workshop was so positive that Davey Sensei has decided to teach more tanto dori techniques to both children and adults. It’s a big subject to cover and an important one as well.  

Here are the times and costs: 

9:00 to 10:30 AM— Japanese Yoga for Adults (Notebook required)

10:45 AM to 12:15 PM— Martial Arts for Adults & Kids (Tanto, "wooden knife," required) 

Fees

Japanese Yoga for Adults--$15.00 donation

Japanese Yoga & Martial Arts for Adults--$20.00 donation

Martial Arts for Kids--$15.00 donation

Wooden Knife--$7.86 (tax included)

Please set the morning of June 24 aside for some fun and useful training at the dojo. Since Davey Sensei will be presenting information that will be new to most students, we hope everyone enrolled in our classes will be in attendance.

Quote

“Emotional baggage,” which is carried over from the past, colors our perceptions. Likewise, past conclusions and beliefs, based on reasoning that may or may not have been accurate, also tint our perception of reality. Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

Emotional reactions can be unreasonable, and reason can be flawed. It’s difficult to have deep confidence in either one, especially when they’re often at war with each other. But the universal mind exists in the instant, in a moment beyond time, and it sees the universe as it literally is. It’s the universe perceiving itself. It is, moreover, something we can have absolute confidence in, and with that confidence, we can maintain a genuinely positive attitude.”
― H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation