Michael Green – Samurai of Compassion
And each of us as individuals regardless of our age, are definitely able to make a powerful contribution in the world through our personal choices, thoughts, emotions, actions and behaviors.
OMTimes: What are you future plans for the academy and your students? I hear that you are developing a special and very personal way to teach the new generation of compassionate warriors, tell us about that.
Some of the long-term participants of the Integrated Academy have recently attained their Instructor’s Accreditation through the Martial Arts Industry Association and have now entered into a new stage of their journey as assistant instructors. It is a humbling experience to witness these new instructors and mentors being so willing and able to share their gifts and attributes with all of the other students and to also sense a new element of personal growth and purpose emerging within their life.
One of the accredited instructors has recently moved to a new location in Australia and has plans to facilitate classes within his new community. This is something that I will definitely provide support towards as it will be a way of being able to share the benefits with more people.
Another recent progression within the Academy is in providing personal development courses and workshops for many of the local youth organizations and schools throughout the community. One of our main areas of focus though is dedicated towards supporting local and international charity organizations, in which we hope to be able to generate not only financial abundance but also to ripple out the consciousness of generosity, kindness and compassion into the world.
One of the more unique and innovative ways of Martial Arts expression that seems to be organically arising through the Academy is specifically designed to assist each practitioner in developing a stronger connection of synergy and harmony with the universe. This is experienced through a series of symbolic physical exercises designed to activate the heart-mind-body-emotions-soul connection. Some of the names of the symbolic exercises include “Welcoming The Light”, “The Rising Heart”, and “The Peaceful Warrior”. Another thing that the students love to do during each training session is to go for a jog outside under the stars so that one of the children can select a particular star that we all align ourselves with as we experience one of the symbolic techniques together.
