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Kirsty Henderson speaks at TEDx Newcastle about The Architecture of The Human System Five Rings Training Founder, Architect and Athlete Kirsty Henderson takes a journey through the processes of building ourselves for better resilience, health and fulfilment, and explains the potentials which become available to us when we understand our Human Architecture. In Architecture every building she worked on had a blueprint, in her own personal development, Kirsty Henderson looked for the same. With no apparent solution, she embarked upon an epic and committed journey through Eastern healing and training systems, world philosophies, psychology, and theologies, technical and scientific studies, in the pursuit of creating her own Life Architecture.  Today she uses her “mapping of the human system” as the fundamental framework for her work in mental and physical reprogramming and Human Development As Founder of the  Five Rings Training & Research Institute  w...

Energy is everything. From the quality of your own energy, to that of others and the environments we live in, energetics affect our worlds every day in every way. Human Energetics In Human Energetics , energy is the bind of the body to the soul. When we are training at Five Rings Training we are specifically concerned with the relationship between body and soul, and train with the intention to increase the connectivity between both. If energy is the binding, then we want the quality of that bind to be as strong, clear and focused as possible. As Humans we are both physical and spiritual: our body is physical, our soul is spiritual. Our energetics is where our physical and spiritual meet. We therefore need to cultivate an awareness of this connection and understand fully how the quality of our energy has both physical and spiritual impacts on ourselves and others. The Importance of E nergetic Training Energetic Training is an advanced form of training which uses a spir...

At Five Rings Training when we refer to the human body we refer to the collective body of mind, body, energy, soul which make up the human system. The physical body is the vehicle for the soul Energy binds the body to the soul If you imagine the energetic realm as one of communication for the functioning of the human system then we understand we want to keep this realm clear of blocks, interference and obstacles and increase the quality and capacity of our communications wherever possible. What we often see is this realm is in fact blocked, static, weak or suffering interference and the human (the owner) isn’t aware of it. So, the individual can be training physically and studying mentally but not paying any attention to one of the most vital components of their own system: the energetic system, their glue, between their body and their soul. The internal environment affects the external one The result can be the experiencing of frustrating health problems, limitations p...

Ma is a Japanese term referring to distance, separation, interval, gap, temporal interval and also to psychological flow. In Japanese architecture ma refers to the regular intervals between structural posts and is further used to categorise rooms for activities.With this term we concern ourselves with the ‘space between.’ In its architectural context ma is the ‘event space’ of an activity or a moment, space defined by occupation of happening, occurrence, engagement of those present. Ma gives a volumetric and geometric value to this engagement, creating an activity or experiential chamber around which we build walls. Consider the tea ceremony: a series of human actions forming ritual, around which physicality is built to both contain and celebrate. The actions depict the geometry and volume of the built structure, pure design from within. So the heart of activity, of the intension, creates the physical world around it. This concept of building to contain, allow and honour event is diffe...

FIVE RINGS TRAINING & RESEARCH INSTITUTE focuses on the cultivation and development of the individual through advanced physical mental and energetic training programmes. Based in London and working worldwide Five Rings Training focuses on providing exceptional training systems for the individual which encourage the development, connectivity and advancement of the human system as a whole. We understand the human being as a system of body, mind, soul and energy. This 'system' of 4 components navigates through a sea of constant changes and the 'state' of its condition at any one time radically impacts the conditions of both its inner and outer environments. With the correct knowledge, we can begin to integrate ourselves, directing our navigation for a more balanced, healthier, happier and successful life. This is the underlying work of all our programmes, for which expert skills training works hand in hand with energetic awareness and mental and physical r...