Thursday, March 14, 2013

Special March Workshops


SENNIN FOUNDATION MARCH WORKSHOPS--
SUNDAY MARCH 24

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

10:45 AM to 12:15 PM Martial Arts for Adults & Kids (Bokken—“wooden sword”—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
Child’s White Oak Bokken from Japan—$40.33
Adult’s White Oak Bokken from Japan—$59.95
 
Fees are non-refundable. Please return the form ASAP.

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Name_____________________________
                      
___ I can attend the workshops.
___ I cannot attend workshops.
___ I cannot attend the workshops, and I would like to schedule a make-up class with H. E. Davey.
___ I want to order __(number) bokken (child).
___ I want to order __(number) bokken (adult). 

Total amount enclosed $____________

We look forward to seeing everyone at this fun and important event.

 

Monday, March 11, 2013

Japanese Yoga Excerpt

“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.”
― H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation