“Members of Aikido Seikikai, an Oak Harbor martial arts school, practiced the ancient tradition of misogi by slowly walking into the chilly waters of the City Beack Park lagoon last Saturday afternoon – and quickly exiting. Misogi is a Japanese martial arts ritual of purifying and blending with nature. Left, chief instructor Don Pierce shares hot apple cider with student Brian Culbertson and his father, Rick Culbertson, after exiting the frigid lagoon. Pierce tells his students that misogi is also about mind over matter. If you don’t, it don’t matter, he says. “