"Iron is full of impurities that weaken it. Through forging it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same way." ~ Morihei Ueshiba
Week Long Residential Aikido Intensive
16th - 23rd April 2023
New Zealand’s only residential aikido training programme modelled on the Japanese uchideshi system
Participants live and train in the dojo full-time for seven days with a minimum of six hours of structured classes each day.
Leave your everyday concerns behind and train aikido full-time for seven days
Enjoy the uchideshi experience of 100% concentration on your practice
Reap the rewards of sustained study
Share a unique experience with a small group of dedicated students
Alan Roberts lived for a year as an uchideshi of Morihiro Saito at the Iwama Dojo and he will share this experience with the Intensive participants, working closely with you to achieve your goals.
The Intensive is a proven format for powerfully accelerating students’ growth as aikido practitioners and as people. See what it can do for you!
Previous participants say;
“Being immersed in a twenty-four-hour aikido environment allowed me to not only develop my technique dramatically, but also some of the discoveries I made forced me to rethink my whole approach to aikido.”
“ I highly recommend the Intensive and feel it is a potentially life changing experience. It has been given direction and focus in my approach to my Aikido training and to my life.”
“The theme Roberts Sensei set at the beginning of this Intensive helped me to think of my technique more clearly and his robust and clear instruction inspires me for the future. Having other attendees with the same goals created a very positive group environment and learning experience.”
“I can’t recommend this experience highly enough. It’s confronting, and illuminating, and over all too quickly.”
“The Intensive was the longest period of sustained aikido training that I have ever done and it was rewarding beyond my expectations. Training in a way that was more than a piecemeal fitting in with normal daily routines of work and leisure meant that Roberts Sensei's very particular Iwama curriculum and aikido insights could be cemented in with better foundations. The Intensive was an opportunity to thoroughly examine personal goals and questions and to test them more rigorously than the usual 2, 4 or 6 hours per week allows. Particularly interesting was reflecting on the personal and social dynamics of the training group, on and off the mat, and to apply the ideal of harmonious relations in the real world.”
