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Stefan Stenudd is a 7 dan Aikikai shihan aikido instructor, member of the Swedish Aikikai Grading Committee, former Vice Chairman of the International Aikido Federation, and President of the Swedish Budo & Martial Arts Federation. He has practiced aikido and iaido since 1972. Presently he teaches aikido and iaido at his dojo Enighet in Malmo, Sweden, and at seminars in several European countries. He is also an author, artist, and historian of ideas. He has published a number of books in Swedish and English, both fiction and non-fiction. Among the latter are books about aikido and aikibatto, also a guide to the lifeforce qi, a Life Energy Encyclopedia, and a commented version of the Chinese classic Tao Te Ching. In Swedish he has written an interpretation of the Japanese samurai classic Book of Five Rings. In the history of ideas he studies the thought patterns of creation myths, as well as Aristotle's Poetics.
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