Tain Ki-Aikido Home Page
This website aims to give you an insight into the martial art of Ki-Aikido, and inform you of opportunities to practice in the far north of Scotland.
Ki-Aikido is not practised as self-defence, rather as a method of mind and body unification. Ki-Aikido is also known as Shin-Shin-Toitsu Do.
Shin can mean both mind and body, toitsu means unification and do means way. Shin Shin Toitsu Do therefore means the way of mind and body unification.
The email link is now working, I think!
Ki-Aikido - it's origins.
The martial art style we now know as aikido was founded by O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba in the 1920s. A practitioner of Daito-ryu aiki-jutsu, jujutsu, and kendo, O Sensei was a deeply spiritual man, and was disheartened by the violence and destruction he experienced in martial schools, and during his time as a soldier and revolutionary. He founded aikido based on teachings of peace ('do' meaning "way" or "spiritual path") rather than those of conflict ('jutsu' meaning "war"). Following O Sensei's death in 1969, Tohei Sensei continued to refine aikido, and focused not only on the techniques of aikido, but also in the development of ki as a way to peace. Soshu Koichi Tohei Sensei continued the development of aikido to the present form called Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido, or Ki-Aikido, which is the style taught in our dojo. Before O Sensei died he made Tohei Sensei the chief instructor and awarded him the highest aikido rank of tenth degree black belt ('judan'). Kenjiro Yoshigasaki (b. 1951) is an aikido instructor now Doshu,which means literally 'master of the way', in Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido. Born in Kagoshima, Japan he was a former student of Koichi Tohei. He was a member of Ki No Kenkyukai and was dispatched to Europe in 1977 to introduce Ki-Aikido and set up an organisation to connect the new dojos to the Ki No Kenkyukai. In 2003 Yoshigasaki broke away from Tohei and founded his own organisation, the "Ki No Kenkyukai Association Internationale". The new organisation is independent of the original Ki No Kenkyukai but still teaches the principles of Ki and is still a Ki-aikido style.
Ki No Kenkyukai Association Internationale
Established by Yoshigasaki Doshu to further develop the concepts of Tohei Sensei.
The organisation has over 4000 members and 120 clubs predominately in Europe but also in Africa and South America.
British Ki Society
Was founded in 1976 to promote the teachings of Tohei Sensei in the UK. Member of the 'Ki No Kenkyukai Association Internationale'
All the clubs listed on this website are affiliated to both the above organisations.
And to the the British Aikido Board.
Please Note:
On this website there are many references to Ki-Aikido and Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido, for the purposes of this website they are treated as one and the same thing. However, it has been claimed that the term 'Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido' has been registered as a trademark by the Ki Society (Japan/ US?), I have done extensive searching of the US, UK and Japanese trademark databases and can find no mention of this term being registered. Although Yoshigasaki Sensei attained his grades under Tohei Sensei he no longer has any connection with the Ki Society of Japan but still teaches a Ki-Aikido / Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido style. As far as I can see, if the terms are not registered anyone would be free to use them even if they had not studied directly under the founder (which Yoshigasaki Sensei did!). If you take exception to these statements and are able to provide evidence of trademark infringement I will remove all trademarked / registered terms from this site immediately, until then they stay.
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