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Every year, in the last week of september, the warriors os Bujinkan Macedonia undertake the traditional Path of Shugenja seminar.
This year, the students chose to walk from the bas of mount Lipac all the way to lake Mokro. Unlike the years before, when the length was unknown, this year we are aware of how long it the road – we are supposed to walk through 40 kilometers during the day. We will visit every church and monastery on the way, as well as every other sacred place, where through meditation and prayer we shall replenish our energy. As help, we will utilize only old topographic maps and a compass.
Shugendo is an ancient Japanese method, which explores
the relation between man and nature. Literally translated, it means “The path of practice and testing”, i.e. an ascetic discipline which has the goal of self-improvement through isolating on mountains, meditating under waterfalls and cold rivers, breathing practices on hard to reach terrain, all the way to achieving impossible feats through testing the physical and mental toughness of a person.Those that practice this method, are known as Shugenja and the teaching is present event today in Japan.
The founder of this teaching is considered to be En no Gyoja, who lived near Kyoto in the 7th century AD. The other name, under which these people were known, is Yamabushi or mountain warriors. They walked the mountains on the Japanese islands, visiting and protecting the many temples in there. Some scholars believe that these people exactly, along with the exiled Chinese generals from the Tang dinasty are the founders of the Ninjutsu art.
Theme: The path of Shugenja / Spiritual journey
Date: 26th September, 2010 (Sunday)
Place: Lipac – lake Mokro
Schedule:
07.00 hours – Departure from Skopje
08.00 hours – Arrival and start of march
??.?? hours – Return to Skopje
Equipment: Take everything you have, the heavier – the better (and safer).
p.s. It is not unlikely to encounter wil animals, rain, bad weather and many other unpredictable things. Everyone comes at their own risk.
* Before you enlist: Take a look around the website for more information on earlier seminars of this kind.
Little Sarah Gjorgjievska was recently diagnosed with a brain cancer that needs to be operated immediately in the ACIBADEM hospital in Turkey. The operation costs approximately 30.000 euros, and the parents aren’t able to raise that kind of money by themselves. Therefore, on Sunday starting at 11.00 o’clock we will hold a humanitarian fund-raising training on Vodno, and the money raised here are to be send to help little Sarah.
After the successfully finished Ninja Summer Camp and the small vacation that came afterward, the School for classical Japanese martial arts Taiyou e no Michi / Bujinkan Macedonia continues it’s regular work. 
From a total of eight students attending this year’s Survival, seven of them “survived”. Four of these were veterans, having 4 Survival seminars behind them, while the rest were “newbies”. One of them quit during the first day, but still, he acquired a great experience which will help him handle himself better during the crises that come up during this seminar. 
Once this was over, we “threw” ourselves to camp-setting duties, and cleared paths towards the southern part of the camp. With this successfully finished, once again we set off for the “Stari Lozja” location, where we cleaned and straightened up the holy cross dedicated to St. Tripun. In 13.00, during the second day, for the first time it was allowed to sit on the behind, by which we started the traditional “time-wasting”, which was used for a few short oral transmissions (kuden). At 16.00 hours, the seminar was over.
pressure. They almost showed no signs of fatigue for the duration of the seminar. From the beginners, Katerina D. showed great results and successfully passed her first Survival seminar. We also congratulate Dragan H. and Goran M., who unlike last year, succeeded in “surviving” this year, by which they proved that persistence always pays off in the end.
To honor the occasion of 15 years since the founding of the school for classical Japanese martial arts Taiyou e no Michi / Bujinkan Macedonia, yesterday in the halls of our dojo we had a celebration which was attended by our present, as well as our former organization members.
What a seminar, what a training, what an atmosphere! Simply put, flawless. Two days, five training sessions, two hours each, a total of 10 hours of diving into the marvelous world of Ono ha Itto Ryu Kenjutsu, in constantly changing weather conditions, sun and rain, followed by thunder and lightning. During this seminar, we were practicing the basic kamae, cuts and blocks from this wonderful swordfighting school.
During the Sunday, the first training was held right after sunrise. At the same time, some potatoes we’re rolling around in the campfire, which served as a tasty breakfast.
Ono Ha Itto Ryu is a school of clear, fast, powerful and simple movements, which are the things that make it so efficient. Even though in the School for classical Japanese martial arts Bujinkan Macedonia primarily we study the nine schools from the Bujinkan Dojo, it is our pleasure to study this school as well. That was made possible thanks to master Antonino Certa, the only western shihan of Daito Ryu Aikibudo, who selflessly accepted the instructor of Bujinkan Macedonia – Igor Dovezenski as a student of his.