
The art of Aikido with coordination of mind and body is looking for a higher state of consciousness through sincere training. A creative mind-body discipline, Ki Aikido is a practical method to deal with the violence and also a philosophy of life. This art begins with us: each of us has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained, each of us has a path to follow that suits him. Both we and our opponents are walking the same path and we should help each other to get ahead together. The victory over ourselves (to coordinate mind and body) is the true profit. This is the real "strength". This is the meaning of "self defense".