{"id":3280,"date":"2011-02-08T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T03:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2011-02-09T06:19:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T11:19:37","slug":"claire-keller-sensei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/claire-keller-sensei\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire Keller Sensei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start this at the end, on the last day of the seminar.<\/p>\n<p>So there I am, having an amazing time, practicing shomen-uchi with Gorman, a talented Aikidoka with whom I should be training more often.<\/p>\n<p>Keller Sensei is watching, of course, and notices something that in ten years of practice had never occurred to me.<\/p>\n<p>The stance I had taken\u2014as clearly as if I had spoken the words aloud\u2014was telegraphing my thoughts to my partner. Not only my thoughts about the technique, but thoughts about my Aikido as well.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, because my <em>hanmi<\/em> was slightly askew, and no center connection was made, I was telling my partner that I lacked the confidence to survive the encounter. It was, Sensei explained, a subtle opening, more psychological than physical. But an opening nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>With that one, insightful comment, Keller Sensei had cut to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/wolves\/\">heart of my practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And not just that one comment, either. For all our students, Sensei took the time to explain, compliment, and correct. And we were all made the better for it.<\/p>\n<p>I can tell you that Dee and I left jazzed about our training. I can also tell you that our students felt the same way.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you, Lane Sensei, for hosting this wonderful seminar. And on behalf of our students, thank you Claire, for your insight and good humor.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start this at the end, on the last day of the seminar. So there I am, having an amazing time, practicing shomen-uchi with Gorman, a talented Aikidoka with whom I should be training more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jerry","category-new-york-aikikai","category-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}