VIDCAST STREPHON TEACHING SPIRITUAL AIKIDO TO ROMANIAN PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS

Strephon trains his Romanian Psychology Students in Spiritual Aikido Practice and term Strephon uses for teaching Universal Energy Principles that show up in dreams and life. Here you will see Strephon’s students learning not to resist the stick coming at then but to move with it, adapting to its motion. The opposite is resisting the force and the weapon coming at you in a defensive, rather than blending way. This principle in practice in life and martial arts can make you rigid and therefore susceptible to being broken more easily than if you are flexible and flow with energy coming your way. Students get to experience directly what their attitudes are as seen in their use of their bodies. Strephon always has training sessions for students in Spiritual Aikido to use during breaks from the intellectual work and in special sessions. You do not have to be good at martial arts or sports to engage in this activity. You know immediately through the stick exercises what your attitude is in the body and how to begin changing it so that you act much more in harmony with what is happening to you in the moment, and how you are responding, of course. Strephon teaches Universal Energy Principles, of Balancing, Centering, Flowing, Receiving and Giving, Intunement, Congruence and Accepting and Creating. There are physical and mental practices for these so that students learn universal energy principles that they can apply to any area of their lives. Strephon emphasizes working with these life principles in dreams and dreamwork, personal relationships and in body harmony and flow. These exercises portrayed here show just a bit of the work with beginning students. Strephon has sixteen years of on the mat Aikido practice and still does daily practice with the sword and in tennis though he no longer takes falls to save his seventy-two year old body from the trauma of being thrown to the mat at full force. Daily live sword work is a vitalizing experience for Strephon as he takes breaks throughout the day from writing and researching at the computer.