George Burr Leonard (August 9, 1923 – January 6, 2010) was an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential. He served as President Emeritus of the Esalen Institute, past-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, co-founder of Integral Transformative Practice International, ^[1] and an editor of Look Magazine. He was a United States Army Air Corps pilot, and held a fifth-degree black belt in aikido. ^[1] Typical of his philosophy, life's work, and the times (1960s), Leonard stated: "Western civilization has been a 2,000 year long exercise in robbing people of the present. People are now learning the powerful joys that hide in the narrow place of the hourglass, the eternal moment. Here is their golden learning: to see - really see - spring flowers; to feel - really feel - the grace of love."^{[ need quotation to verify]}

Leonard co-founded the Aikido of Tamalpais dojo, originally in Mill Valley, now in Corte Madera, California. He also developed the Leonard Energy Training (LET) practice for centering mind, body, and spirit. ^[2] Leonard died at his home in Mill Valley, California on January 6, 2010, after a long illness, survived by his wife and three daughters. He was 86 years old. ^[3]

Books

• The Decline of the American Male (1958) ASIN B000JWGFBW
• Shoulder the Sky (1959) ASIN B000HLSI5Q
• Education and Ecstasy (1968) ISBN  978-1-55643-005-3
• The Man & Woman Thing, and Other Provocations (1970) ASIN B0006DY0R0
• The Transformation (1972) ISBN  978-0-87477-169-5
• The Silent Pulse (1978) ISBN  978-1-4236-0122-7
• The End of Sex (1983) ISBN  978-0-09-152830-0
• Walking on the Edge of the World (1988) ISBN  978-0-395-48311-4
• Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment (1992) ISBN  978-0-452-26756-5
• The Life We Are Given (1995) ISBN  978-0-87477-853-3
• The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons from an American Sensei (2000) ISBN  978-0-452-27972-8
• The Ultimate Athlete (2001) ISBN  978-1-55643-349-8

References

External links

• Article in the Encyclopedia of Aikido
• Aikido of Tamalpais
• The ITP Founders & Board of Directors
• Interview with Sensei George Leonard, April 2000, AikiWeb
• NYTimes obituary
• The Samurai Game