ABOUT SUIKIDO
SUIKIDO is a discipline of the living human body. It is expressed through three independent practices: Bodywork Therapy, Kinetic Movement, and Martial Art. Each practice stands on its own as a complete discipline.
Bodywork Therapy is a whole-body treatment — received. Kinetic Movement and Martial Art are training practices — actively engaged in.
SUIKIDO is entered fully through any one of them. No practice requires the others. What one engages with is individual.
The work is physical and conducted through direct contact. Each practice addresses the body under different conditions: therapeutic, kinetic, and martial. Together they share one ground — the human animal body; how it is built, how it moves, and how it acts.
SUI 水 — Water
KI 氣 — Energy
DO 道 — Path
THE NAME
SUIKIDO 水氣道 is three characters. Each names a governing principle of practice. Three forces operate in the human body. All three are present throughout SUIKIDO, though each practice is carried by one as its primary force.
Three principal forces. One name.
The discipline takes its name from the forces it works with.
THREE FORCES
MOON — SUN — EARTH
The Kamon of SUIKIDO depicts the interplay of three planetary forces as they operate at the terrestrial scale.
SUI 水 — Water
The force of the Moon. The force of gravitational order.
The pull that moves the waters and circulates fluid systems.
KA 火 — Fire
The force of the Sun. The force of radiant electromagnetic energy.
The rays that ignite, heat, and drive.
CHI 地 — Earth
The force of the Earth. The force of form.
The ground where all three forces converge, generating form.
THE GROUND
The body SUIKIDO works with is the living human animal — bone, muscle, tissue, and nervous system, standing on the ground it is made of.
The human body is subject to the same forces that move through every living thing. Water circulates and sustains. Fire activates and drives. Earth holds form and structure.
This is the ground: the human body as a living system — governed by natural principles.
SUIKIDO operates within this natural order.
The Practitioners
Chris Valles
Originating Practitioner, SUIKIDO 水氣道
Chris Valles founded SUIKIDO in 2003. He has been in practice since the age of five. His formation spans decades of direct apprenticeship and sustained personal practice across the classical arts: Japanese martial art, East Asian bodywork, Vedic and Daoist movement practice, and professional dance. What was trained was tested. What held became SUIKIDO.
Anette Munch
Lead Practitioner, SUIKIDO 水氣道
Anette Munch is Lead Practitioner at SUIKIDO. Her formation spans three decades of physiotherapy, craniosacral therapy, movement science, and nutritional knowledge, together with fifteen years of training and direct mentorship with Chris Valles. What was learned separately now works as one.
MAKING CONTACT
These pages are a presentation of SUIKIDO—in words and living images. Reading the text and watching the material is the first step toward contact. Nothing here is incidental; the presentation asks for attention, not a glance. Taken in, the site provides a foundation for contact and shows whether SUIKIDO is for the reader. A contact made without that footing does not serve well.
WHAT AND WHY
SUIKIDO is entered through any one of the three practices. What is taken up—one practice, two, or all three—is individual. Purposes differ: treatment, training, recovery, study, teaching, professional development, research, collaboration, or the need to address a specific situation. Each engagement is shaped accordingly.
WHO
A request can concern one person or several—a group, a profession, an institution, or a field of work. The untrained beginner and the trained expert, the young and the mature, those with advanced capacity and those in recovery share the same ground: the body. SUIKIDO meets each person at that ground, with equal precision.
HOW
Contact is made by personal request. It is made through the contact form on the page of the practice concerned, or through the contact section. The request names what is sought and why—the thinking already done. It opens a direct line of communication. From there, format, duration, intensity, and the combination of practices are determined.
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