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Workshop Structure | Sarete

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How does aikido stop aggression without violence? The aikidoist evades a strike or grab by moving off the line of attack, leading the momentum and energy of the attack into a throw. This approach to self-defense provides a unique opportunity to explore broader life-skills through the physical embodiment of non-oppositional conflict resolution. Sarete practice is based on the following concepts:. Breathe from the lower abdomen and relax to allow full-body expansion. Blending with force, isolating aggressi...

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Law Enforcement | Sarete

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Sarete offers strategies and methods for law officers interested in keeping the peace through manifesting authority while minimizing the escalation of conflict. Focused practice will emphasize non-oppositional engagement, self-regulation, and adaptive responses to evolving situations. The goal is to increase officers’ capacity to manifest and maintain authority in the context of stress, opposition, and confrontation. In the presence of authority. Reducing residual stress and aggression.

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Educators and Administrators | Sarete

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Sarete offers strategies and methods for educators interested in Topping the class. Focused practice will emphasize improving presence, connection, and non-oppositional engagement. The goal is to build and maintain productive and supportive leadership in the context of expectations, confrontations, and all that stuff kids bring to the table. Stepping to the head of the class. Finding connections and providing opportunities. Reducing conflict, stress, and anxiety. Centering, relaxation, and mobility.

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Orientation | Sarete

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Written by Jeff at Sarete. February 24, 2014. Filed under Sarete Skills. Centered breathing, body alignment, muscle activity, attention, and posture supports self-regulation by providing a point-of-reference for goal-oriented action. Orientation focuses on being present, accepting, attentive, and adaptive. Proper alignment synchronizes the components of the body for a greater capacity to receive experiences via our senses. The skeleton is meant to support the body while the systems and muscles hang f...

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Veterans | Sarete

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Sarete for Veterans builds resources and resilience needed for implementing lasting change. The practice of Aikido creates a controlled and graduated experience of conflict, developing the capacity to utilize skills during instances of stress and anxiety. Special focus is placed on actions regulating oppositional arousal, alternatives to defensive physical behaviors, and methods of non-oppositional engagement. Centering for rest and readiness. Breathing reflects your state of mind and body. Focus on what...

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Why Sarete? | Sarete

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Sarete builds on the demonstrated results of traditional martial arts that counter violence. However; only aikido utilizes non-violence as the method of realizing peace. Aikido techniques resolve physical conflict with methods applicable to other forms of conflict. Aikido techniques include actions of centering, self-regulation, and conflict resolution. These techniques focus on breathing, posture, muscle tension, and non-oppositional movement. Demonstrated traditional martial arts outcomes include:.

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Wellness | Sarete

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Sarete offers a chance to focus on self-improvement and life-skills in the workplace by working it out, while building practices for problem solving and conflict resolution. Physical activity focuses on centering and rejuvenation in the context of stress to allow energy to be reserved for goal-oriented action. Clear your head, relax your body, move skillfully. Focus breathing, mind, and self. Focus breathing to establish a physical equilibrium. Align posture, muscles, and intention. Stress and conflict a...

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Aikido is named the "art of peace"

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Aikido is named the art of peace. Tatasarete is an old form of the verb “to stand;” the sarete ending refers to being moved or compelled versus the common tataseru which just refers to the act of standing. O’sensei saw aikido as the creation of “divine techniques” in response to conflict, saying that he wanted people to “listen to the voice of …. Refers to the manifestation of the spirit. Aikido begins and ends in the concept that mutually shared peace and preservation is the only path to resolution.

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What is Sarete? | Sarete

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Tatasarete is an old form of the verb to stand; the sarete ending refers to being moved or compelled versus the common tataseru which just refers to the act of standing. Sarete focuses on what motivates us to act, it is a life-skills program utilizing concepts and practices of aikido and psychology to promote peace and wellness in individuals struggling with conflict and self-regulation. Experiences of conflict, stress, and anxiety originate at a physical level. Centering techniques and body gestures imp...

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Resolution | Sarete

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Written by Jeff at Sarete. February 21, 2014. Filed under Sarete Skills. Conflict emerges from the need for change. Resolution emerges from the energy of conflict. Successful resolution establishes mutual well-being, minimizing the likelihood of continued and future conflict. Is the skillful implementation of available tools or techniques appropriate to present opportunity. Is seen as a practice rather than presumed or final mastery. Is the act of receiving. Refers to remaining in being beyond the act&#4...