NYBA is excited to host two wonderful teachers this year – Miyako Ishiguro Sensei (of @Kyudo-love) and Rick Beal Sensei, who will lead a 2-day workshop in Kyudo – location and details TBD
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Grade: Kyoshi second dan
YouTube Channel: Miyako's Kyudo
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Miyako Ishiguro Sensei is a Japanese kyudo teacher, Kyoshi 6th dan, and the founder of the educational platform Kyudo.love and the YouTube channel Miyako’s Kyudo. Through her writing, videos, and international teaching, she has become a respected voice for students seeking a clear, graceful, and accessible introduction to the art of Japanese archery.Ishiguro Sensei began practicing kyudo at the age of 28, after raising her children and deciding to begin a new personal pursuit. What started as a new challenge developed into a lifelong discipline. Over the course of her training, she achieved the rank of Kyoshi 6th dan and built a strong record in competition, including an 8th-place finish at the All Japan Championship, along with many other top finishes and victories.
In addition to her personal practice, Ishiguro Sensei has served as a high school kyudo adviser, helping younger students understand not only the technical side of shooting, but also the manners, posture, etiquette, and spirit that define kyudo. Her teaching emphasizes refinement, patience, correct use of equipment, and the quiet beauty of disciplined movement.
Through Kyudo.love and Miyako’s Kyudo, Ishiguro Sensei shares lessons for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Her videos introduce essential topics such as rei, seiza, suriashi, taihai, kimono practice, equipment handling, and the details of form that make kyudo both a martial art and a path of self-cultivation. Her calm, direct, and encouraging teaching style has helped students around the world better understand the elegance and depth of kyudo.
Ishiguro Sensei has also taught internationally, including leading seminars outside Japan. Her work has helped make kyudo more visible and approachable for a global audience while preserving the respect, discipline, and traditional spirit at the heart of the art.
Today, Miyako Ishiguro Sensei continues to share kyudo as both a technical discipline and a way of life. Her teaching reflects the idea that kyudo is not simply about hitting the target, but about cultivating posture, awareness, sincerity, and beauty through every movement of the bow.
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Rick Beal began training in Japanese Budo at a young age in 1966. But his real revelation came in the early 80’s with his sword teacher Hirotaka Okubo (Okubo-sensei). Okubo-sensei had studied kyudo with Kosaka-sensei and Mishima-sensei in Los Angeles; so Okubo-sensei incorporated the basic movements of kyudo into his warm up exercises for the sword classes. When asked why, Okubo-sensei replied, “If you lay down your sword and practice kyudo for ten years, then pick up the sword again, your sword will also be ten years better. No other martial art will do that, only kyudo.”
Prior to meeting Okubo-sensei, Rick had owned and operated a small karate/kobudo school. Okubo-sensei and insisted that if Rick wanted to train with him, he must close his school. Rick closed the school and traveled around the area to find places for each of his senior students to train. One of those students (one of Rick’s top students) couldn’t find any other instructor he wanted to train with, or any other art that he would rather study. So Rick took him to meet Okubo-sensei in hopes that they could train together. The student had no interest in the sword, and really didn’t bond with Okubo-sensei; but upon seeing the kyudo warm up he exclaimed, “What is that? I want to do that!”
Okubo-sensei wrote a letter of introduction for the young man to Mishima-sensei and sent him to the Higashi Hongwanji temple to begin kyudo. Being one of Rick’s previous karate students, he asked Rick to come along for moral support.
Rick came and the two of them were told to sit down and watch (it was customary at that time in the class to have prospective students watch for three classes before they could begin instruction). But for some reason, Mishima-sensei approached them and asked them to join the other beginning students that he was teaching to walk. Although Rick’s friend stood up immediately, Rick explained that he had no interest in training in kyudo, but he had only come to offer support to his friend. Mishima-sensei insisted that Rick should also train, but Rick demurred, saying that he did not want to waste the-sensei’s time and that he would only be there for one day and then be gone. Mishima-sensei said, “One day of practice is one day of practice.” Rick practiced with the group that day, and has practiced with them ever since.
Follow him:
@BUDORICK on Facebook
@BudoRick on Instagram
@budorick3624 on YouTube
SEMINAR SCHEDULE:
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2 PM– Check-in to the retreat center
3-5 PM POOL
6 PM – DINNER
7 PM – ZEN MEDITATION
8 PM CAMPFIRE
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7 AM – CHI-GONG
7 :30AM – ZEN MEDITATION
8 AM – BREAKFAST
9 AM – OPENING REIHO
9:30 AM – SILENT KEIKO
1 PM – LUNCH
2 PM – KEIKO
5 PM – CLOSING REIHO
6 PM – DINNER
8 PM – CAMPFIRE
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7 AM – ZEN MEDITATION
8 AM – BREAKFAST
9 AM – OPENING REIHO
9:30 AM – SILENT KEIKO
12 PM – CHECK-OUT
1 PM – LUNCH
2 PM – KEIKO
4 PM – CLOSING REIHO
4:30 PM – TRAVEL TO NYC
7 PM – FAREWELL DINNER
SEMINAR FEE:
$XXX – SEMINAR FEE (INCLUDES ACCOMMODATIONS + MEALS)
$XXX – STUDENT RATE (INCLUDES ACCOMMODATIONS + MEALS)
$XXX – SEMINAR FEE ONLY (2-DAYS)
$XX – SEMINAR FEE ONLY –STUDENT RATE (2-DAYS)
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