Three years

North Valley Aikikai celebrated its three years anniversary on Sunday. It seems like the number 3 has great symbolic meaning in all religions and mystic ways; it symbolized the trinity of body-mind-spirit, life-substance-intelligence, force-matter-consciousness, creation-preservation-resolution. The family: father, mother and child, the three dimensions, the three postulates: the thinker, the thought and the thing, and the past, present and future. The number 3 is a number of optimism, movement and expansion.


Here are some pictures from our party, which was a pure joy of celebrating with Dojo members, adults and children, the students' families, guests and many friends:















Eli demonstrating with the children









Adults
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Wine, dine and prayers for many more years of celebrating community.


Photographs by Roger Hoffmann