Description
Aiki is often described as elusive, ineffable, and difficult to define. Despite its central role in Japanese martial traditions, clear explanations remain rare, and understanding is frequently left to experience alone.
Dynamics of Aiki: An Integrative Framework approaches this challenge from a different perspective. Drawing on classical Japanese sources, embodied practice, and contemporary insights from pedagogy and learning, it explores Aiki not as a fixed concept, but as an emergent psychophysical capacity.
Rather than relying on technical accumulation or doctrinal interpretation, the book examines the conditions under which Aiki may arise—through structure, perception, interaction, and development over time. In doing so, it seeks to bridge the gap between traditional martial understanding and modern approaches to learning and embodiment.
This is not a manual of techniques, nor a definitive explanation of Aiki. Instead, it offers a framework through which practitioners can deepen their own inquiry and experience.
Intended for serious students of Aikido and related disciplines, as well as readers interested in martial arts philosophy and embodied learning, this work invites a reconsideration of what Aiki is—and how it may be approached in practice.
It is a book to be read, reflected upon, and returned to in practice.
Details
Publisher - Aiki Light
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Alister Gillies
Published Date - 2026-05-20
ISBN - 9781067654702
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 160
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