Shintaido of America

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Dear Shintaido practitioners:

It is membership renewal time and membership dues are the main source of income for Shintaido of America (SoA). Here are some of the benefits and accomplishments of Shintaido of America:

• Liability insurance for every member of SoA regardless of where you practice. This insurance is good at any Shintaido class, workshop, or gasshuku.
• Exams offered by accredited SoA Instructors at Pacific Shintaido’s Kangeiko in January, Shintaido Northeast’s Kangeiko in February, the Shintaido Farm in June, and Bellingham, Washington in August.
• SoA Instructors also held numerous local and regional workshops, including several in Bellingham, Washington, and others in Northampton and Worcester, Massachusetts.
• The Shintaido Farm in Deerfield, Massachusetts, the first dojo in the United States owned by Shintaido members is active with gasshuku and workshops. For more information on the Shintaido Farm, please see the News item on our web site at http://www.shintaido.org/news/index.html.
• Our SoA Technical Committee sent two delegates from this country to participate in the European Shintaido College event in October 2006.
• Our online photo archive continues to expand, and we have developed a number of professional-quality brochures for promotional purposes.

Here are some ongoing benefits of being a member of SoA:

• Online registration for events and dues payments
• DVDs, videos, written publications, and other materials sold on the SoA website
• Accreditation and continuing training for Instructors, and the ability of all SoA members to take exams

You can pay your dues online at: http://www.shintaido.org/docs/membership.htm or you can send a check or money order to PO Box 1979, Novato, CA 94948-1979.

Thank you for your support of Shintaido of America, and Shintaido in America.

Best Regards,

Connie Borden
President, SoA

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From February 23-25, 2007 Shintaido North East held their Kangeiko in Deerfield, MA at the Shintaido Farm. Photos from the event taken by Stephen Billias and Joe Zawielski are now available online.

Lee Seaman, outgoing National Technical Council Chairperson, describes her last four years as Chairperson and introduces Shin Aoki as the new Chairperson.

On January 14, 2007, exams were offered at Pacific Shintaido’s Kangeiko. A new examination format was used where Sensei’s Shin Aoki and Connie Borden were examiners for the kyu-level exams…

In June, 2006, when Ito came to the Shintaido Farm to teach the Shintaido Sans Frontieres workshop, he gave the dojo a name: Tenshinkan, which means, “Heavenly Truth Building”. The farm as a whole is still called the Shintaido Farm, but the dojo now has its own name.
Ito contacted Aoki Sensei and asked if he would do a calligraphy of the new name. Aoki Sensei graciously agreed. On Tuesday, October 3rd, Ito visited the Shintaido Farm again, led class, and presented Stephen Billias and Bela Breslau with a beautiful calligraphy by Aoki Sensei of the new name.



The framed calligraphy now hangs between the picture windows in the Tenshinkan dojo on the Shintaido Farm.