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Aikido Off the Mat: One Woman's Journey Using Aikido Principles to Stay Sane in Body, Mind, and Spirit
A deeply personal and compelling memoir that illustrates how the basic principles of Aikido can help us cope with the challenges of life outside the dojo
Drawing from more than forty years of experience as an Aikido practitioner and teacher, Kathy Park explains how principles such as embodiment, grounding, centering, extension, 360-degree awareness, blending, and alignment can be applied to everyday life. Candid stories from her own life show how the purpose of practicing Aikido on the mat is to take it off the mat and into the world.
Drawing from more than forty years of experience as an Aikido practitioner and teacher, Kathy Park explains how principles such as embodiment, grounding, centering, extension, 360-degree awareness, blending, and alignment can be applied to everyday life. Candid stories from her own life show how the purpose of practicing Aikido on the mat is to take it off the mat and into the world.
256 pages, Paperback
Published August 7, 2018
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About the author
Kathy Park
12 booksKathy Park (1951) lives with her artist husband Henry Woolbert in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. Kathy is an accomplished sculptor and painter (you can see her work at www.dreampowerartworks.com) as well as a writer, English professor, and gardener. Her first book, Seeing Into Stone: A Sculptor's Journey, is a memoir about her 15 year apprenticeship with Gordon Newell, a stone sculptor. Most of the memoir takes place in Darwin, California, a tiny ghost town in Mojave Desert near Death Valley.
In early 2015, Kathy published a manuscript titled Coyote Points the Way: Borderland Stories and Plays through Mercury HeartLink. This book features several short works of fiction as well as nonfiction and three ten-minute plays.
Kathy's most recent book Aikido Off the Mat combines memoir with philosophy about taking the principles of the peaceful martial art of Aikido off the mat and into our lives so we can cope with an increasingly chaotic world and manifest our peaceful leadership skills. Aikido Off the Mat is due to be released by August 2018 through North Atlantic Books in partnership with Penguin/Random House.
In addition, Kathy has written about teaching holistic health in a federal women's prison in a homemade, self-published book.
Kathy is a graduate of Adams State University in Alamosa, CO where she teaches English through ASU's distance learning program. Her students are mostly incarcerated and her courses include Women and Memoir, The Prison Memoir, Advanced Composition, Com Arts and Introduction to Creative Writing . She earned her MFA in creative writing through Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
Kathy is also known as Kathy Park Woolbert.
In early 2015, Kathy published a manuscript titled Coyote Points the Way: Borderland Stories and Plays through Mercury HeartLink. This book features several short works of fiction as well as nonfiction and three ten-minute plays.
Kathy's most recent book Aikido Off the Mat combines memoir with philosophy about taking the principles of the peaceful martial art of Aikido off the mat and into our lives so we can cope with an increasingly chaotic world and manifest our peaceful leadership skills. Aikido Off the Mat is due to be released by August 2018 through North Atlantic Books in partnership with Penguin/Random House.
In addition, Kathy has written about teaching holistic health in a federal women's prison in a homemade, self-published book.
Kathy is a graduate of Adams State University in Alamosa, CO where she teaches English through ASU's distance learning program. Her students are mostly incarcerated and her courses include Women and Memoir, The Prison Memoir, Advanced Composition, Com Arts and Introduction to Creative Writing . She earned her MFA in creative writing through Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
Kathy is also known as Kathy Park Woolbert.
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