Aikitaiso
The Aikitaiso course, is structures weekly lessons, every Wednesday from 12:15 to 13:15 at Urakasumi Dojo. It is aimed to whom who seek a balance between their physicality and their psychic wellness.
Taiso (from Japanese, 体, tai, "body", and 操, so, "temperament", literally "temperament of the body") is a word used to express a practice aimed to the development and strengthening of the body. In a more broad way, this term is used to indicate any exercise aimed at the preparation of the body before a physical activity. 合気, Aiki, means "harmony of the vital energy", that bond which intrinsically unites anything that exists.
This type of training, usually, is associated to the athletic preparation of martial arts practitioners, but this term is used, in more generic ways, to express a particular type of gymnsatic, autonomous from the martial practice. This second meaning is due to the fact that taiso, because of the mixture of various techniques, results extremely various. It can adapt to the preparation of the professional athletes likewise to the riabilitation of muscles and joints of an elder person.
In taiso everything is movement. It does not exists a movement without breathing. The latter, through continuos intake ad emission od air, starts the flow of ki, the vital energy which gather in the tanden (a point inside the abdomen, which is placed three fingers below the navel) and from which it expands throughout the body. Taiso in its "light" form, presents itself as a collection of exercises aimed to the regaining and keeping of a balance in the energetic level fo the organism, with the means of techniques of auto-massage, stretching of the muscular and tendon system and unblock of articulations. All accompanied by a correct breathing and an intense listening of the internal self. Instead, in its "strong" version, it allows to the practitioner to enhance (developing the strength) his/her muscle, but at the same time stretch and enforce tendons, increase pulmonary capacity, improve the efficiency of the cardiovascular system.