War Years
In 1942, Koïchi Tohei graduated from the Economics Department of the prestigious Keio University. In february of 1944, after receiving military training, Tohei Sensei was sent leading an infantry unit into occupied China. There he understood, under enemy fire, the importance of calming one’s mind in the One Point in the lower abdomen ("seika no itten"). Because of the lack of doctors, Tohei developped during the war the principles of what he later named Kiatsu Therapy, based on sending Ki through the fingertips. He saw action in China and was stranded there at the end of the war until his repatriation in 1946. Tohei Sensei stated on several occasions that Ki principles such as “extend Ki” and “relax completely” leaving things up to the Universe helped him in to stay safe during the war, as well as the eighty men under his command.
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