Approximate program, subject to change:
1:00 – 2:30 PM Shintaido practice
2:30 – 2:45 break time
2:45 – 3:30 PM a little more Shintaido

3:30 – 4:00 PM time for sharing, reflection, questions, discussion

Cost: $65 Single Class Minimum, tipping encouraged preferably by PayPal to @davidmanta. You must be pre-paid to attend, no walk-ins

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What is the legacy of the genre/form/style you are teaching?

A remarkable system of physical and mental training developed in Japan in the 1960s by martial arts masters. However, it is not for fighting or self-defense. It is a form of physical movement and exercise through which you can improve your health, find a harmonious connection with nature, and open yourself to new challenges. It helps you grow and seek inspiration, regardless of your age or physical condition.

The movements of Shintaido are basically simple, but when performed with proper attentiveness, they have profound positive effects on the body, mind and spirit. Shintaido was created to help you awaken your untapped potential and to enable you to live a healthier and more fulfilled life.

The spacious and expansive movements activate the natural power of the body and allow for the perception of the beauty of movement and the freedom of the spirit. Therefore this practice can be compared to meditation or to an art form that we can realize individually or together with others.

What background, training, and or relationship do you have with this style/technique/class subject?

Hi! I’m David, I’ve been practicing Shintaido regularly since 1983 — I started here, in Central Square, Cambridge! — and I became an instructor in 1992, and 4th level instructor in 2016. Here’s what someone wrote about me:

“For many of his students, this teacher has become both a friend and an inspiration, someone who is able to pass on the art of Shintaido in its full breadth. As an artist, he has been inspired by the freedom, power and depth of Shintaido, and within which he has discovered not only a wonderful physical practice but also an way of artistic expression, an exercise that brings natural health, a path of self-knowledge and spiritual transformation. He has studied Shintaido in the United States, Japan, France and England with the founders of the discipline, having started practicing in 1983. He has taught in the US, France, England, Germany, Japan, China, and the Czech Republic, where he is based. He’s a 4th-level instructor (of 5 levels) and and practices this art as a way of physical expression that helps us communicate with others through the instrument of the body.

His teaching style is gentle, playful and supportive. He leads those he works with toward find their own approach to the body and their own way of being, and helps his students develop their potential to live a more joyful and harmonious life. His goal is to help people discover the power of body movement, to develop their creativity and ability to communicate, harmonize their body, mind and spirit, and support their connection to nature and the spiritual world. David is also an acclaimed award-winning video artist, visual and performance artist. His domain is expression through movement and somatics (Shintaido, t’ai chi, shiatsu), as well as film, digital media, experimental theater, music, writing, and cross-cultural collaboration.”David here again. Curious about my visual art, videos, performances and so on? Go here:

Contact Information
Contact David:
shinataido@dfranklin.org