True awakening isn't just a climb toward emptiness and non-self — it's a return journey back into the body, the shadow, and the difficult terrain of relational conflict where all that practice gets tested. In this conversation, Keith Martin-Smith and Miles Kessler explore what embodied, integral awakening actually demands: not transcendence of the human, but a deeper, more honest inhabitation of it.
Miles Kessler
Miles Kessler Sensei (6th Dan, Aikikai) is an American teacher of aikido, meditation, and integral practice. Miles began Aikido in 1985 and in 1989 moved to Iwama, Japan where he lived and practiced Aikido full time at the famous Ibaraki Dojo.
