Master Gianfranco Tiberti

For thirty-five years practicing Japanese and Chinese Martial Arts.Black Belt 5th dan of Karate Do Wadoryu Ju Jitsu Kempo. Teacher of Tai Chi Chi Kung. Scholar and Teacher of Yoga. He have been practiced Aikido; he practice Iaido Seitei: he's First Dan (SHODAN) with regural ZNKR (ZEN NIHON KENDO RENMEI) Degree. Zen teacher. Expert of Chinese Traditional Medicine, Zen Shiatsu, Osteopathy, Chiropractic (disciplines practiced through a sincretistic method for fiftheen years.
He've been teachenig Martial Arts and Zen Meditation from fifhteen yaers, in the context of a method, at this point original, (whose name is GORINKAI- style of the five elements), whic syntetizes elements of several chinese and japanese Martial Arts, integrated by elements of Chinese Traditional Medicine and elements of meditation and energetic activation (Chi Kung, Yoga).
The aim of this method is to develop through two guiding lines that integrate and divaricate themselves according to the didactic direction and the attitude of the typology of users.
They are, from one side, an extreme efficacy, from another a profound labour on the posture and temper (self-control, direction of aggressiveness, proprioceptive techniques), until higher levels of labour on the "mental".He studied during these thirty years with italian, japanese, chinese and indian teachers.

He sojourned several times in Japan to help a better and direct learning of the most advanced techniques.
Student of the Zen Master Gensho Hozumi Roshi, (regular professor of Buddhist Philosophy at the Kyoto University, Abbot of the Tokofujii Monastery, head for the interreligious exchange with the chritian communities): he organizes every regularly "Gorinkai Sesshin" leaded by Hozumi Gensho Roshi, in Italy.
During the years he've been writing many articles on sector rewievs; he've been organized stages and intesive courses on specialistic arguments as well as intensive retires of Zen meditation.

 

"The Gorinkai represents the synthesis of mine whole store of experiences through a thirty years path. For a better comprehension of the caracterizing aspects of this synthesis it's necessary to understand that the developement of this path has gone on through three guiding principles:

1- Martial Arts: internal and external

2- Pure Energetic Research: Yoga, Chi Kung, Misogi and, most of all, Zen Practice.

3- Therapy:Shiatsu, Chinese Traditional Medicine, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Bioenergetics, Mezieres.

Whic can be the intersection point between three directions so, on their own way, so "caracterizing" and self-sufficient? The interseection point is in the intrisic vibration that pervades the totalizing "Reality" of the human experience. The man is an integrate, and integrable, complex of three fundamental elements: BODY (TAI), ENERGY (KI), MIND (SHIN), whic represents, in their evolutive integration, expresses itself itself from one side into a casual, pre-determinated, after-determinated and self-determinated conditioning (=KARMA), and from another side, into a dimension non-representable through concepts, that's "Pure Absolute", "Pure Freedom". This appearing contradiction on a logic plan, is actually the "Conditiion of a Reality", and the appearing contradiction lived by a human being in the "Dance" between Life, Death and Absolute. The shades, and the various times, rythmes and forms of this "Dance", according or not according to the Universal Rythm, generate and express the various conditions of the men during their lives (JOY, PAIN, HEALT-ILLNESS, etc.). Through the "Practice" we substain within all the Gorinkai activities, we make an effort to be in harmony, everyone conforming to his own natural inclinations, with this "Universal Rythm" (=DARMA, TAO)." - Master Gianfranco Tiberti