Free Aiki Dojo and Golden Bears Aikido training schedule - week of 2014 10 27

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Announcing the Peace Practices gi!

We are fundraising to support the Peace Practices project, teaching martial nonviolence and bodymind conflict skills to local, national, and international communities via our custom gis (now available in our new online store here.) Please consider getting your gi from us and support the Free Aiki, Golden Bears Aikido, and Peace Practices work we are doing in the world!

Rosalie in first Peace Practices gi

 

We'll return to the 11:30-12:30 time slot for Mondays on campus as of this week. Feedback is, as always, welcome.

 

 

--- Monday, October 27th, 2014

Monday 11:30am-12:30pm on campus will feature weapons training on Faculty Glade. Bring bokken and jo if you have them. We have extras if you don't.
1:30pm-5:15pm at PRIntS San Mateo
Learn Martial Nonviolence while helping with any one or all three 50 minute Peace Practices classes for 3-18 year olds.
--- Tuesday
2:00pm-5:30pm at PRIntS Emeryville
Learn Martial Nonviolence while helping with any one or all three 50 minute Peace Practices classes for 3-6 year olds. Please email my assistant, Cheyenne at abcglobal dot net, to express interest. We (Association Building Community) are hiring people to train as instructors and lead their own programs.
6:30-7:30 at Aikido of Berkeley 1514 University Ave
Free Aiki Dojo classes are from 6:30-8:30pm at our host location, Aikido of Berkeley, at 1514 University Ave. 6:30-7:30 is a basics with Brandon Sensei. Kayla Sensei teaches a general Aikido of Berkeley class from 7:30-8:30. You are always welcome to train in both classes.
 
If you stay for Kayla Sensei's class (or come for any other AiBerk class) please leave a $5-$15 donation in the wooden box on the cabinet near the front door.
--- Wednesday
7am - 8am is at 1514 University Ave.
 
1:30pm-5:15pm at PRIntS San Mateo 
Learn Martial Nonviolence while helping with any one or all three 50 minute Peace Practices classes for 3-18 year olds.
 
5pm-6pm at PRIntS San Mateo (454 Peninsula Ave, San Mateo, CA 94401)
We are having an inspiring and lovely time with the children, teaching the next generation about conflict done well, but did you know that it's available to you too? We are happy to see more and more parents join us in classes with the students and faculty, and would love to welcome you as well. In addition to Free Aiki Dojo and Golden Bears Aikido classes, we are also now offering Peace Practices for adults on PRINTS campuses. This week we are holding the class at the San Mateo campus (We even set up a facebook event page for folks to invite friends through). The next class will be Nov. 6th at the Emeryville campus (see here.)
--- Thursday
2:30pm-5:30pm at PRIntS Emeryville
Learn Martial Nonviolence while helping with any one or all three 50 minute Peace Practices classes for 3-6 year olds.
Golden Bears Aikido on the Cal campus
10:00 - 11:00 PM The Late Night Thursday study group is in Hearst Gym #230 lead by James Liao.
 --- Friday

2:30pm-4:30pm at 1514 University Ave is a sempai lead study group facilitated by Tyle, who is a long-term Aikido of Berkeley apprentice. I highly recommend showing up to check out this training. It is at an ideal time for many people and we really want to encourage its continuance.

 --- Saturday
10:30am - 12pm is at 1514 University with either Ricardo Sempai or Brandon Sensei. We alternate.
As always, please follow either of our Twitter feeds for the latest changes, weekly class times, etc. at:

 

I look forward to training with you!
Free Aiki Dojo - Golden Bears Aikido training schedule from December 16th 2013+image02

Brandon Sensei

P.S.

As always, no previous experience is necessary.
 
Show up and train no matter what. Please bring a friend.
Pay what you can. If you can't, don't. No kidding.
 
DONATIONS ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED!
Please set up an automatic donation for whatever you can afford
through our non-profit partner, Association Building Community,
 
Please click here for our petition to support aikido at UC Berkeley  and forward this link to your networks with a note explaining why it is important to you.
 
Please share your Google Calendar with  so we can coordinate and plan together, but always email  because it goes to everybody who needs to see it and will get you a much faster response.
 
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Our Google Groups are mostly about weekly announcements. If you would like to be on the inside of the logistics email loop where the decisions are made about class scheduling, special events, and the future of our training community in general, please email my executive assistant at and she will add you to the development list: .

 

If you haven't checked out the Golden Bears Aikido Facebook Group yet, by all means go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/GoldenBearsAikido/

 

Some maps for locations:
http://berkeley.edu/map/maps/CD56.html
Free Aiki Dojo (hosted by Aikido of Berkeley)
1514 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94703

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