FEEL - CONNECT- PLAY

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Founded in 1976, Konjiki Dojo offers training and practice in Freeform Aikido in New Cross southeast London.

Freeform aikido focuses on “kimusubi” - the connection of intent or energy between practitioners as they attempt to lead each other out of balance.

Freeform aikido is an improvised approach evolving spontaneously out of the contact between participants.

Practice provides an opportunity to learn from your interactions and experiment with new ways of being, to connect and grow.

Freeform Aikido develops

  • present centred awareness - heightening attention to the here and now
  • contact - opening to connection
  • playfulness - a liberating sense of freeing creative possibility

Practice can be liberating from habitual patterns and inhibition, leaving you and more in touch with yourself, others and the world. It effectively promotes fitness, flexibility, poise and general well being.


A ‘heart & mind opener’, ElseHartmann-Johnsen

Practice today was wonderful. Yes, exactly, “wonder” “full”… it is magic, it is peaceful to be so open. Krysia Mansfield

I really enjoyed it …the emphasis on expression, intuition, sensitivity and presence was refreshing. Paradoxically, this dance-like way of training is also of great benefit from martial perspective as it teaches aiki in its purest form, and is a great workout to boot. Mark Walsh

Freeform aikido has proved of particular interest to actors, dancers, designers, artists, psychotherapists, musicians, healers and all those seeking a creative approach to living and relating.


We practice at

Edmund Waller Primary School, Waller Road, LONDON SE14 5LY Click for MAP

Practice times are

Tuesdays 7pm, Saturdays 10.30am

Fees are

£44 per calender month payable by standing order or £54 per month cash or cheque which includes insurance with AMA.

Clothing is a loose long trousers and long sleeved tops and bare feet.

Our training ethos is distinctly egalitarian, co-operative, experimental and based on learning-through-discovery.

The dojo was founded by John Ferris in 1976 and was named by the late Sekiya Sensei-Konjiki Dojo - “Golden place of the way”.

Beginners and experienced aikidoka are always welcome.

For further information please call Peri on 07947 369990

4 Responses to “FEEL - CONNECT- PLAY”

  1. Florence Says:
    June 18, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    Beautiful flow, bodies hypnotised a strange posession, giving into gravity tangling and untangling. Lovely to watch, Thank you!

  2. Mickel Says:
    June 19, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    Its very flowing and everything seems to just link into one another, I really love the shapes that are formed through the connection of two people.

  3. Krysia Says:
    August 4, 2007 at 2:59 pm

    Practice today was wonderful. Yes, exactly, ”wonder” ”full”.
    With a focus on listening. Being active in hearing ”feelingly”, we were able to absorb eachother, and tune in. And for me, a whole world would open in each new moment. Finding form and space TOGETHER is so interesting for me. I like the letting go, the surrender to what’s happening ”now” rather than me trying to make something up or rush on to a new moment before the one we’re in has reached it’s full bloom. It can be frightening to be still, to slow down, breath and be honestly present. But when we do, it is magic, it is peaceful to be so open. Ah yes - as you said Peri - ”It is grace”

  4. Corky Quakenbush Says:
    July 11, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    I love what I have seen here! Beautiful, beautiful, and so much of what I love about aikido. Budo is love! We work the same way but sometimes with hard static grabs, for instance…: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey9x-mh8-jg&feature=related

    Thanks for publishing your exciting evolution!

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