Andrew Haight

O’Sensei, Aikido & Interbeing

Aikido

The world is living through an intense period of change; floundering about in a wide-open, chaotic space that’s too big, undefined and mercurial to be comfortable, yet is ripe with potential. It’s the space between stories. An uncomfortable and creative space in which we are witnessing the death of an old world-view and the conception…

March, Mars, Morihei & Martial Evolution

Aikido

Holy Spring! We’re almost there. It’s the Roman God Mars, who gives us the English words, “march” and “martial”. Transformed from the Greek’s brutal and murderous God Ares, he is re-named and re-imagined by the Romans into a new kind of warrior; an agricultural guardian and a father figure, representing military power as a peace-securing…