Aikido Seminar: Breaking the "Conflict" Addiction

Sean Hannon Sensei was invited to Aikido of Central New Mexico (Charles Watkins' Sensei, dojo cho) early in 2019 for a seminar entitled Breaking the "Conflict" Addiction. The seminar focused on how students inadvertently destroy their technique by defaulting to the human nervous systems' innate compulsion to resist a force. Aikido teaches, instead, to blend with an incoming force and to redirect the energy.