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Hoshin Kocho Dojo
Welcome to the Hoshin Kocho Dojo. "Kocho" is Japanese for butterfly. The Kocho dojo butterfly represents both the fragility of life and the ability of one even weak-seeming individual to make a difference. That taijutsu is for the preservation of the weak when faced with the strong, as taijutsu techniques rely on movement and body mechanics, rather than brute force and muscle. It is also a tip of the hat to the motto "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
The butterfly also represents the transformative process of the individual from caterpillar (or white belt!) through the Hoshin development process to "tatsujin"- a fully realised and developed human being who has transcended their original limitations in body, mind and spirit. Such an individual is said, in traditional Japanese Budo (Warrior Way), to "fly on the martial winds".
Training Date and Time
Tuesday evenings; 7-8pm,
Leeds Martial Arts College, Little Lane, Morley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. England
LS27 8EA +44 (0)113 252 0777
Friday evenings; 7-8pm,
Jen's house, please enquire
Holistic martial arts for age 18+. Practical self protection, personal development, intention sensing, conflict resolution scenario training, chi development, yoga, meditation and more.
Contact Jen by phone +44 (0)7890861048, email or through the Kocho Dojo Facebook
Jen Fletcher, Hoshinjutsu Sensei-ho
Jen has been involved in martial arts since the mid 80's, when she began medieaveal european historical reenactment and ran her own club whilst at Polytechnic in Leeds, as well as fencing. Moving to University in Teesside in 1991, she started tai chi chuan and zazen meditation. For several years she was also a keen target archer
In 1995, she switched to renaissance reenactment with The Sealed Knot Society, in which she is now the Association Ensign for the Northern Assocation of the Army of Parliament.
Jen began Jujitsu and Kobujutsu in 1999, in which she holds 1st Kyu and shodan respectiveley and continued her tai chi with the Yang school as well as further exploration of meditation and chi kung. In 2005, she met Dr. Morris, Hoshin founder and Grandmaster. He introduced her to taijutsu, the health promoting ways of Hoshinjutsu, the Bujinkan and Meditation Mastery.
In 2006, she began Bujinkan training (in which she now holds a 1st Kyu) and founded the first dedicated Hoshin training group in the UK. She has been instrumental in organizing seminars by top Hoshin teachers. As well as being a Hoshinjutsu Sensei-ho (instructor), she also is an instructor in Dr Morris's "Meditation Mastery and Esoteric Energy" programme and became a deshi (disciple) to Dr. Morris shortly before his death.
She continues her Hoshin training under Roshi Mark Lawrence and Bujinkan under Shihan Norman Smithers whilst maintaing a close link with Shihan Kevin Millis. In 2008, Jen travelled to Japan to train under Soke Masaaki Hatsumi and senior shihan of the Bujinkan.