{"id":933,"date":"2009-06-08T04:53:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T03:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/?p=933"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:13:56","slug":"aikido-classes-with-martin-doyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/2009\/06\/08\/aikido-classes-with-martin-doyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Aikido Classes With Martin Doyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"About Martin Doyle | Martin Doyle Flutes\" href=\"\/about.html\">Martin Doyle<\/a> has just published a new website that introduces his Aikido classes to the world via the internet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1527\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1527\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1527\" title=\"Clare Aikikai \u2013 Aikido classes with Martin Doyle in Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/clare-aikikai-homepage.jpg\" alt=\"Clare Aikikai\" width=\"625\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/clare-aikikai-homepage.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/clare-aikikai-homepage-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/clare-aikikai-homepage-624x339.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clare Aikikai \u2013 Aikido classes with Martin Doyle in Liscannor, County Clare, Ireland.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Martin Doyle first became interested in Aikido in 1987 at the recommendation of a friend and is now a nidan (2nd <a title=\"Dan (rank) | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dan_%28rank%29\">Dan (rank)<\/a>) Aikido instructor \u2013 or <em>sensei<\/em> (teacher) in Japanese. He offers twice weekly Aikido classes for adults and children at Liscannor, County Clare.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aikido is a Japanese martial art developed by <a title=\"Morihei Ueshiba | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morihei_Ueshiba\">Morihei Ueshiba<\/a> as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as &#8220;the Way of unifying (with) life energy&#8221; or as &#8220;the Way of harmonious spirit.&#8221; Ueshiba&#8217;s goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to defend themselves while also protecting their attacker from injury. Read more: <a title=\"Aikido | Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aikido\">Aikido \u00bb<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information about Martin Doyle&#8217;s aikido classes in Liscannor, visit: Clare Aikikai \u00bb (no longer exists)<br \/>\nTh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Doyle has just published a new website that introduces his Aikido classes to the world via the internet. Martin Doyle first became interested in Aikido in 1987 at the recommendation of a friend and is now a nidan (2nd Dan (rank)) Aikido instructor \u2013 or sensei (teacher) in Japanese. He offers twice weekly Aikido [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,237,58,444,3,92],"tags":[391,445,346,392,65,446,85,328,25,203,447,97],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aikido","category-county-clare","category-ireland","category-liscannor","category-martin-doyle","category-website","tag-aikido","tag-aikikai","tag-clare","tag-classes","tag-county","tag-dojo","tag-ireland","tag-liscannor","tag-martin-doyle","tag-new","tag-sensei","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martindoyleflutes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}