William Gleason

For the first time in English, the secrets of the sacred sounds that unlock the principles and spiritual strength of aikido

• Explains the nature of the five vowels that govern the physical manifestations of universal consciousness

• Uses more than 300 photographs to demonstrate a ...

Morihei Ueshiba, who founded Aikido early in this century, intended that his martial art would give form to profound spiritual truth, and lead to a unification of the world's peoples. He saw Aikido not as a fighting method or as a competitive sport but rather as a means of becoming one with the l...