Sneaky Posting

[iai_adept]

*sneak* *sneak* *sneak*

*iai_adept sneaks up to her browser*

*looks around furtively*

*iai_adept selects the "Social Networking" link in her bookmarks and clicks on "LiveJournal"*

*whispering*

hello all. sorry about the lag between postings.

*wonders if this is the longest she has gone without posting since she started posting over 6 months ago*

Not much

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[slobbit]

First, about reiho

[iai_adept]

Does it sound like you spelled it? Hi, as in short for hello?

That is exactly how it sounds. The phrasing is usually "Shinza..ni.....hai rei" with the last two syllables (I'm not even sure they are separate words) spaced more closely together than "shinza" and "ni"

We do the brief meditation too, both before the workout (after bowing in) and at closing (before bowing out).
Funny thing - when I was reading Lowrey's "In the Dojo" he talked about "mokuzo" and I remember thinking "If it is so common, how come we don't do that?" It took me until the next class to realize that "mokuzo" was what I was hearing as "moke-so."
It is this sort of thing that makes corresponding with you so helpful to me. :-)

When bowing, I touch fingertips briefly first, then lower, then raise up to fingertips, then rise.I know you had been working on the timing of the bow to shorten it and make it more natural and I thought it was a good idea. I don't think that my sitting bow is too far off though the bow is longer than yours (and the bows in the videos you