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Kagami Biraki - New Beginnings

Kagami Biraki - New Beginnings

Kagami Biraki

Baltimore Aikido
1/18/2025

SATURDAY, January 18, 2025

During Kagami Biraki, we celebrate new beginnings.

We remember the Shinto myth of how the kami of merriment, Ameno-Uzume, used a bronze mirror to lure Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun, out from her cave to restore sunlight to the earth. When Amaterasu peeked outside from ...

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Kototama

William Gleaons, 7th Dan

William Gleaons, 7th Dan

William Gleason, 7th Dan - Online Event

Baltimore Aikido
12/10/2020

Saturday, December 12, 2020

William Gleason explains how to use the sounds of Kototama in the practice of Aikido.

Aikido founder Ueshiba Morihei described the discipline as one spirit, four souls, three origins, and eight ...

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