Today’s video from our New Year’s seminar focuses on weight shifting in kokyu nage, a key principle for maintaining connection and control in Aikido. This principle is essential for both empty-handed practice and shoto mastery.

I’m excited to share more in my upcoming book,...

Discover how to enhance your Tenchi Nage by mastering weight shifting techniques in Aikido. This blog explores insights from Lia Suzuki’s New Year’s seminar, where she introduces a Kokyu Nage variation that’s directly applicable to Tenchi Nage. Whether you're looking to deepen...

Discover how to improve your kokyu ho and kokyu nage techniques with insights from Lia Suzuki’s New Year’s seminar in Los Angeles. Learn how to use your knees, lower back, and arms to absorb your partner’s force for better results. Plus, get an exclusive look at Lia’s...

In our latest Aikido seminar in Los Angeles, we addressed a common challenge: pushing during shomen uchi ikkyo.

This blog post delves into the techniques demonstrated in the seminar, where we were using shoto (short sword) to eliminate pushing.

Learn how integrating shoto training can...

Explore effective techniques for overcoming pushing in Aikido, from the 2024 New Year’s seminar at Lia Suzuki Sensei's dojo in Los Angeles.

Using shoto (short sword), we focus on Shomen Uchi Ikkyo and Iriminage, emphasizing the principle of in-ryoko (yin power) by contrasting body...

Explore effective Aikido principles for working with taller partners, from the 2023 Baarn seminar hosted by Ima Juku Aikido under Arjan de Vries Sensei and led by Lia Suzuki Sensei.

After deep Iriminage work, we practiced centering waza and standing Kokyu Ho to adapt to partners of different...

Explore effective Aikido techniques for working with taller partners.

This video is from Lia Suzuki Sensei's seminar in the Netherlands. It was hosted by Ima Juku Aikido under Arjan de Vries Sensei.

After deep Iriminage work, we practiced centering waza to adapt to partners of different...

Discover essential techniques for mastering Iriminage from Lia Suzuki Sensei's Aikido seminar in Baarn, Netherlands.

The seminar was hosted by Ima Juku Aikido under Arjan de Vries Sensei.

Learn how to enter deeply enough and avoid creating resistance by using soft contact.

These...

Discover essential techniques for mastering Shomen Uchi Iriminage from Lia Suzuki Sensei's 2023 Aikido seminar in Baarn, Netherlands.

The seminar was hosted by Ima Juku Aikido under Arjan de Vries Sensei.

Learn how to enter deeply enough and ensure a proper Shomen Uchi attack for effective...

Discover essential techniques for mastering Tenchinage from Lia Suzuki Sensei's 2023 Aikido seminar in Baarn, Netherlands.

The seminar was hosted by Ima Juku Aikido under Arjan de Vries Sensei.

Learn how to extend your lower arm and loosen your upper arm, wrist, and hand to avoid common...

Discover effective warm-up techniques used in the 2023 Baarn Aikido Seminar with Lia Suzuki Sensei, hosted by Ima Juku Aikido under Arjan de Vries Sensei.

Learn how to adapt warm-ups to build trust among practitioners from various dojos and styles.

This blog post explores paired stretching and...

Discover the effective warm-up techniques used at the Aikido seminar in Baarn, Netherlands, in 2023, hosted by Ima Juku Aikido under Arjan de Vries Sensei.

This post explores the importance of adaptive warm-ups, particularly paired stretching, to accommodate practitioners from various dojos and...