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Saotome Sensei will be at Nashville Aikikai March 16th through March 18th.  Please view the full details for the seminar on the Seminars page.  Registration for the seminar must be received by March 9th.  Cost of the seminar is $150 and keiko will be Friday at 6:30, Saturday at 10:30 & 3:30, and Sunday at 10:30.  There will be a Tennessee bar-b-que dinner on Saturday at Calhoun’s (separate confirmation/registration required).  We look forward to seeing you there!

Kyu testing in January will be on Friday the 13th. Please come support your fellow aikidoka and take ukemi as well. We will start with a short, formal class at 6:30pm with the tests following. After the tests, we will go out to dinner somewhere nearby; friends and family are welcome to join.

See you there!

There will be a formal evening class on Friday, December 9th with testing to follow. Class starts at 6:30PM and we will go to dinner after the tests are completed. Those interested in learning more about Nashville Aikikai and Aikido are encouraged to observe class as well as the tests. Hope to see you there!

The yard sale starts at 7:00AM this Saturday (November 19)! Please bring your donated items to the dojo during the week. Thanks!

Marta has created a flyer for us to print and post around the neighborhood, so please place them in the appropriate spots to attract interested parties to the yard sale.

Flyer to print and post for the yard sale:

Nashville Aikikai Yard Sale

Do you have anything that you no longer use that needs a good home? Have an old Labor day gift aunt Martha gave you that you never ended up using? Good news! The dojo will be hosting a yard sale on November 19th starting at 7:30am!  For those in need of directions to the dojo, please visit our Location page for a map and directions.

All proceeds will go towards the operation and beautification of the dojo itself. Donations can be brought to the dojo during the week of November 14-18 (special arrangements can be made if you need to deliver it earlier than that).

We will sort and price the items together on Friday night, November 18 and then have dinner. The yard sale will start at 7:30am on Saturday, November 19 and go on through the afternoon. We will need volunteers for both Friday and Saturday, so please show up and help out. You may even find some good deals for great things that you never knew you needed! Home to see you there!

New photos and videos have been posted from Mark’s and Marta’s tests at Wendy Whited Sensei’s seminar as well as some photos from the Nashville 48-hour film festival.

Nashville Aikikai 2011 Fall Seminar with Wendy Whited Sensei

Nashville 48-hour film festival aikido demonstration

Nashville Aikikai Videos

Between 5pm and 7pm on Saturday, September 24, there will be a block party with a live band and refreshments at 17th & Fatherland in East Nashville. It is free to all to attend and Nashville Aikikai will be open for folks to stop by and see what we are about.

The other businesses and organizations around 17th and Fatherland will be a part of the block party and it is a good chance to see how your friendly Far East Nashville neighborhood is growing. Hope to see you there!

There will be morning, afternoon, and evening keiko (all regularly scheduled classes) on Monday, September 5.  Come start your Labor Day celebrations off right with morning class and then come back for afternoon and evening classes! For more information on what time classes are, visit our class calendar on the Class Schedule page.  See you Monday!

Nashville Aikikai was honored to have Wendy Whited Sensei come to Nashville, TN and provide instruction at their annual fall seminar.  We had three great days of keiko and had between 40 and 50 aikidoka from across the country and overseas on the mat each session.

After Saturday afternoon keiko, two of Nashville Aikikai’s students, Marta Crispen and Mark Clark, tested for shodan.  Congratulations to both Marta and Mark for their hard work and passing their tests.  Thank you Wendy Whited Sensei for coming to Nashville, TN and spending time with us.  Thank you to all of the Nashville Aikikai group for making our visitors feel at home and helping put on a wonderful seminar.  Keep up the good training!

New videos are being added to the website starting with the awesome demonstration video that was made by Matthew from Prototype Media at the 2011 Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival.  You can view the videos by visiting the Videos page under the Multimedia section.

NashCherryBlossomFestival2011

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