Unifying diversity in the «flow of consciousness»
Wednesday 2nd to Monday 7th July 2008

In the years since the beginnings of the Shintaido organisation, from the late seventies until today, our Shintaido community has developed into a diverse and multi-level International community. Each level has different expectations and wants a different kind of instruction.
Acknowledging this growth and change, for the first time, we have designed our International Shintaido Quadrennial Festival so that all levels of practitioners in our community can get the best possible attention, while also making space and opportunities for the different levels to meet and enjoy each others practice. In this way we hope that the larger community can be unified in the flow of KI .

The Festival will comprise three events of growing importance :

An International Shintaido Conference (2-4 July)

a gathering of Instructors / Ni-dan holders and above

A European Forum of Instructors (3-6 July)

a gathering of Assistants / Ni-kyu holders and above

A Tenshin meditation seminar (6-7 July)

a gathering of the whole Shintaido community

The program of each event will be managed so people coming to one event will have an opportunity to share activities with people who have attended a previous event.

There will be examinations during the International Instructors Conference starting from senior (seishi-han) and above, and also during the European Forum starting from Graduate (shodan) up to Instructor (nidan). These exam sessions will be open for everybody to observe.

Organizers: Pierre QUETTIER, Clélie DUDON, Giovanni ROSSI