May 2-3, 2015 Gasshuku in Zürich with H. F. Ito & Nicole Beauvois

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Saturday Morning, May 2:

Subject: Free Hand Shintaido/Life Exercise
Theme: Nature Worship & Ancestor Worship

• Tenshingoso:
  1. Started with Tenshingoso Ooooo & Ummmm
  2. Then, I(Yeeeeee), Ooooo & Ummmmm
  3. “E” arrangement: Practitioner crossing forearm in front your chest, and cut & open the space horizontally, at first. And, Crossing forearms in front of face, and cut & open the space with “E” at second. Crossing forearms over head, cut & open the space at third. Finally, normal cut & open movement with sound of “E”!
  4. Continually, E, I, O, & Um
  5. The complete Tenshingoso with A, E, I, O, & Um

Saturday Afternoon, May 2:

Subject: Quality Control of Shoden no Kata
Theme: Mindfulness & Total Concentration

• Warming up with Jo/Short Stick
• Shoden no Kata by Bokken
• Shoden no Kata (dai) with free step movement
• Kumitachi by using a part of Shoden no Kata, like Eiko Dai Kumite

  attack: The movement of #5 ~ #8 of the first half of the kata

  (Chuday Kiriharai ~ 3 x Jodan Kirikomi

  receive: The movement of #5 ~ #8 on the way back

  (Chudan-Kiriharai ~ 3 x Cutting up from Gedan)

Sunday Morning, May 3:

Subject: Quality Control of Shoden no Kata
Theme: Mindfulness & Total Concentration

• Kumitachi by using a part of Shoden no Kata, like Eiko Dai Kumite

  attack: The movement of #5 ~ #8 of the first half of the kata

  (Chuday Kiriharai ~ 3 x Jodan Kirikomi

  receive: The movement of #5 ~ #8 on the way back

  (Chudan-Kiriharai ~ 3 x Cutting up from Gedan)

Sunday afternoon, May 3:

Subject: Taimyo
Theme: Big Bang

• The movement #2 of Taimyo Part II
  Super slow movement of arm rotation
• $6 ~ &8 of 10 position standing meditation
• Ito’s latest inspiration of flower walking step at the pose #6