Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind. — Mineko Iwasaki Copy Share Image
Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic… — Mineko Iwasaki Copy Share
Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It… — Mineko Iwasaki Copy Share Image
