Shintaido

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Shintaido (新体道), meaning "new body way", is a body movement art emerged from a research on martial arts and contemporary visual and performing arts, led by Master Hiroyuki Aoki in the 1960s. He sought to create a new form of movement that would embody the modern desire for peace, cooperation, and mutual understanding among people of all cultures, rather than to cultivate a competitive fighting art.

It has been called a moving meditation. Shintaido's forms exemplify openness and freedom. The movements of Shintaido provide a new way of experiencing our relationship with ourselves, others, nature, and the spiritual world. Shintaido is also a healing art, and a form of artistic expression. Shintaido attracts people who are interested in change, self development, and re-connecting with their bodies, their community, their spiritual nature.

Shintaido is practised in Japan, USA, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Australia, India and Russia.