Aikido Shugenkai

Aikido Shugenkai is a non-profit community that supports its members in the pursuit of a life-long study and practice in the fundamentals of aikido. The dojo teaches its students the ways of harmony, life energy, and a way or path, with a focus on the elements of earth, water, fire, and air. Aikido is a non-violent Japanese martial way that aims to neutralize conflict through non-aggressive means before it occurs, and to help build a more peaceful world. The benefits of aikido practice extend beyond the dojo into all aspects of the practitioner's daily life, providing physical and mental health benefits such as increased core strength, flexibility, muscle strength and tone, and improved respiration, energy and vitality. The dojo values cooperation, challenge, and community, and its members support each other in the practice of aikido.