Welcome To Aikido of Petaluma

Aikido of Petaluma has been offering gentle martial and energy arts for the pressures of daily life since 1983.  Our training emphasizes personal growth and development within the medium of a martial art.  Our instructors offer a supportive, joyful, and diverse training environment.

Beginners are welcome and encouraged to observe and participate in any of our classes.

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Class Notes:

Sensei Noha, as part of his online classes, prepares class notes, with extensive details.  He has made his notes available to everyone.

Class Notes Topic Index

Current topic and associated class notes

Finer Experience of the I

A series of classes focusing, practicing, and developing a fuller and finer experience of the I or self.

• Fuller Experience of Wholeness in a Self-Referenced Identity 2021-04-15
• Wholeness in a Self-Referenced Identity 2021-04-13
• Forging an Identity With the Creation 2021-04-08
• Practice in Forging a Unit Free of Entanglement 2021-04-06
• Interacting in Creation, Free of Entanglement 2021-04-02
• Forging a Unit Free of Entanglement 2021-04-01
• Deeper Co-creative Relationship With the Creation Through the Experience of the I/Self 2021-03-25
• Self Finding Your Place and Purpose Within the Creation 2021-03-25
• Co-creative Healing Experience of the I/Self 2021-03-18
• Co-creative Experience of the I/Self 2021-03-16
• Fuller/Finer Dimensional Experience of the I/Self 2021-03-12
• Dimensional Practice of Fuller/Finer Experience of the I/Self 2021-03-09
• Fuller/Finer Experience of the I/Self 2021-03-04

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We are happy to announce that we are starting children’s classes beginning February 1st!  Find more information on our Children’s Class page.

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Get your Aikido of Petaluma tee shirt here:  Our awesome friend at Aiki Comics created this fantastic design that they made available for purchase here

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 Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.

– Morihei Ueshiba

Aikido of Petaluma has been offering gentle martial and energy arts for the pressures of daily life since 1983.  Our training emphasizes personal growth and development within the medium of a martial art.  Our instructors offer a supportive, joyful and diverse training environment.

Beginners are welcome and encouraged to observe and participate in any of our classes.

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We are currently practicing the sword and jo katas Rinjiro Shirata Sensei transmitted to Sensei John Stevens.  Links to the Misogi No Jo and Misogi No Ken katas can be found here:

• Misogi No Jo
• Misogi No Ken

T’ai Chi Students, we have started practicing the feather sword form.  You can view one of Professor Cheng’s senior students, Ken Van Sickle perform the sword form here:

 

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