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Teachers and students from over 50 dojos joined together for five days in July 2010 to train intensively, to celebrate a sense of community with others on the path of Aikido, and to strengthen a collective resolve to carry the teachings of the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba Osensei, forward into the future. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeaturing Motomichi Anno Sensei, 8th Dan Shihan, a direct student of the founder of Aikido. Carry Aikido Forward also contains extensive footage of the three senior American Aikido instructors who co-taught with Anno Sensei to create the 2010 Summer Retreat: Mary Heiny Sensei, 6th Dan (Seattle, Washington), Linda Holiday Sensei, 6th Dan (chief instructor, Aikido of Santa Cruz), and Jack Wada Sensei, 6th Dan (chief instructor, Aikido of San Jose). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCentral to the focus of the 2010 retreat was the question of how the philosophy of harmony expounded by the founder of Aikido, and the physical techniques which express and cultivate this harmony, can be transmitted to successive generations of Aikidoists in the future. 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After a lifetime of practice and teaching in Japan, the United States, and Europe, Anno Sensei conveys through his teachings Aikido's essential spirit of love, harmony, gratitude, and purification with simple authenticity and eloquence. Author and translator Linda Holiday--herself a senior instructor of Aikido--brings to life the intimacy of this communication through translated discourses on the deep practice of Aikido and candid dialogues between Anno sensei and Western students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJourney to the Heart of Aikido\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes Linda Holiday's vivid account of her adventure as a young woman studying Aikido in the mystical region of Kumano, Japan, in the 1970s, and a poignant telling of Anno sensei's life and his first-hand experience of training with Aikido's founder. 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