Practicing Aikido brings pleasure, joy, and can achieve much more. The close relationship between movement and connection from the very beginning of life is touchingly explained here. In our Western culture, psychomotor deficiencies are prevalent. In Aikido, one encounters not only Japanese movement patterns but also previously overlooked aspects of the Japanese understanding and experience of relationships. Practicing Aikido in an atmosphere of care and tolerance can loosen physical defenses, reorganize affective motor patterns, promote interactional competence, self-efficacy, and the ability for self-regulation, stimulate maturation processes, and generally mobilize self-healing powers. This reading and working book is aimed at students and educators. It addresses classical themes of Budo as well as the constitutive elements of Ai.