Classes

Classes 7 Days/Week
With our volunteer instructors, we are currently able to offer classes 7 days a week (weekday evenings and weekend mornings), including 4 Basics classes per week. Please see the schedule below.

Class Schedule

New to Aikido?
Check out our 4-class Basics Sampler: 4 Basics classes for $60

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Visiting Aikidoka
Our mat fee is $20.
Please send an email to let us know you're dropping in!
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Yoga with Simona
We continue to offer a once-a-week Yoga class on Sunday Mornings.
Available in-person at the dojo and on Zoom.

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WEEKLY SCHEDULE

Subject to adjustment as needed.
Please email the dojo at [email protected] to confirm specific dates/times.

6:30-8:00pm Aikido with Jacob

6:30-8:00pm Aikido BASICS with alternating instructors

6-7pm Aikido BASICS with Dave

7-8pm Aikido with Dave

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6:30-7:30pm Aikido with Deborah

11:30am-12:30pm Aikido with Deborah

6:30-7:30pm Aikido with Steve

9:00-10:00am Aiki Ken/Aiki Jo BASICS with all instructors (alternating)

10:00-11:00am Aiki Ken/Aiki Jo with all instructors (alternating)

9-10:30am Aikido BASICS with Dave

11-noon Yoga with Simona Balan

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Classes for beginners and
long-time students alike.

Focus on foundational movements and techniques, falling, and weapon basics.

TUES & WED EVENINGS
SAT & SUN MORNINGS

Wooden sword and staff practices for Aikido.

The Founder trained with wooden sword (bokken) and wooden staff in Iwama, but didn't really 'teach' them per se. It was Morihiro Saito who absorbed these trainings and created partner practices and later augmented them with suburi and kata, and taught these practices to his students in Iwama and in his many teaching tours overseas. Through this, these Aiki-ken and Aiki-jo practices became an important part of the Iwama Aikido curriculum --something that distinguishes Iwama Aikido from other 'lineages' --though many aikidoists worldwide learn and practice Saito Sensei's weapon forms regardless of lineage affiliation.

Weapon techniques are included in our tests from the very beginning of a student's progression through the ranks. Focus is first on suburi (solo 'swings' ie strikes with the weapon), then solo forms (kata) and partner forms are brought in gradually.

We do Iwama Aikido Weapon practices on most Saturday mornings, and they may also be brought in to other classes during the week from time to time at the instructors' discretion.

AIKI-KEN & AIKI-JO

“When O-Sensei explained Aikido he always said that taijutsu (body techniques) and ken and jo techniques were all the same. He always started out his explanation of Aikido using the ken. Although he didn’t use a one-two-three method, he always taught us patiently and explained in detail what we should do.”
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“When I started teaching myself ... I classified and arranged his jo techniques. I rearranged everything into 20 basic movements I called “suburi” which included tsuki (thrusting), uchikomi (striking), hassogaeshi (figure-eight movements), and so on so it would be easier for students to practice them. I was taught first how to swing a sword. I organized what I learned and devised these kumijo and suburi for the sword. O-Sensei’s method may have been good for private lessons, but not for teaching groups. In his method, there were no names for techniques, no words. This was why I organized the movements into tsuki (thrusts), uchikomi (strikes) and kaeshi (turning movements) and gave them names.”

- Morihiro Saito Shihan

ADULT CLASSES