Wendy Palmer

International Aiki Peace Week

Day 5 - September 24th

In these challenging and exciting times leadership is being called to manifest the capacity for stepping into power while resourcing wisdom through innovation and collaboration. As leaders we need to be able to take a stand and take action in the face of resistance and opposition – without collapsing or resorting to aggression. Aikido demonstrates that there are different ways to be powerful and to collaborate. Applying principles from Aikido and mindfulness we can examine unskillful habits and find new ways in which to collaborate and take action.

The aikido principles that inform Conscious Embodiment focus on the dynamics of mind/body wisdom as it relates to empowered leadership, our capacity to act with more integrity and our ability to influence the world.

We have been given the gift of aikido – may we use it wisely.

Blessings,

Wendy Palmer

Wendy Palmer Sensei, author of The Intuitive Body and The Practice of Freedom, and co-founder of Aikido of Tamalpais (along with George Leonard and Richard Strozzi Heckler, both fairly prolific authors themselves). Wendy’s work outside the dojo is something she calls "CONSCIOUS EMBODIMENT, which, as she explains on her website: "draws on the traditions of Aikido - a revolutionary non-aggressive martial art and mindfulness practice to offer simple yet deep techniques that help you recognize how your mind and body habitually react to pressure, and to access more skillful and unified responses.”