Aiki: Journey to Self-Mastery (Paperback)
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Book Description
A personal guide to self-mastery that will lead one to achieve whatever it is we were put on this earth to do, using principles of courage, compassion, kindness and faith.
About the Author
Mr. Sosa, a most devoted and dedicated practitioner of the art of Aikido, considered the art as much spiritual as physical. He was recognized in the martial arts community as a dedicated and respected teacher of the Aikido art and he believed in quality versus quantity. Mr. Sosa\'s martial arts career spanned the length of over 40 years, he conducted seminars throughout the United States and Mexico. Before his death, he completed his last book, Aiki, Journey to Self Mastery. He passed away after a short illness in June 2002.
Like this book, Aikido is an incredibly complex art. The way it was taught and lived by Sensei Bill Sosa was more layered than an onion. His earlier work (such as "The Essence of Aikido") was focused on the Art form a new practitioner's perspective. But as Bill Sosa spent more time in the Art, it consumed so much more of his life. Happily, he passed this wisdom on via his influence over the lives of his students of many years (I am privileged to say I was one, for more that fifteen years).
This book has not a single technique, pin or throw; so for those looking for an insight into Sensei Sosa's skills as an instructor of the Art (and those skills were formidable, to be sure) will find this in one of his earlier works.
But for anyone and everyone looking to see how a martial art has applications for everyone in the course of daily life, this is the place to search. Aikido, the way of harmony of energy, is about courage, love, discipline and the abundant peace of self actualization. Aiki is more than a fighting art, as he used to say. It is a way of life. We are blessed to have had him with us, and this book is a wonderful legacy.
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