Close your eyes. Imagine “seamlessness.” Now feel it. What’s there?

Grace? Ease? Belonging? Connection? Nature? Playfulness? What else? Congratulations, you’ve had a glimpse of your state prior to resistance. Aikido is here to help us return to that state in this manifest world—the world of forms that we live in every day of our lives. The process is challenging to say the least, but it doesn’t need to reside only in your imagination. It’s real. Your first job as an Aikidoist is to know this. Your second job is to take responsibility for it.