Satomi Kai Aikido - Suffolk

New Year, New Starts

🥋 Looking to kickstart your activity goals this New Year? 🎉 Our Aikido club is doing things a bit differently this January! ✨ Feedback tells us that starting together with other newcomers creates a supportive environment. No one’s the lone…

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Aikido Enhances Flexibility

Aikido, often hailed as the “way of harmonious spirit,” is not just a martial art but a celebration of fluidity and grace. Beyond its self-defense applications and philosophical principles, Aikido offers a multitude of physical benefits, with flexibility being one…

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Celebrating an Aikido anniversary

Time flies when immersed in our training. It feels like just yesterday when our Aikido club embarked on a new chapter, moving venue. Now, as we celebrate one year at our new home and Barking Village Hall, we take a…

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Embrace the Serenity of Summer

As the summer sun casts its warm glow, a serene atmosphere settles in the air, making it the perfect time to embark on a journey of self-discovery and physical well-being. Our Aikido club invites you to experience this dynamic Japanese…

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Aikido Beginners Course 2023

New people are always welcome to come along and join in at Satomi Kai Aikido Club, but once a year the club runs a special beginners course. One of these introductory courses will be starting on Sunday 8th January at…

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New Venue – new beginnings

This week we’ll be staring at our new venue at Barking Village Hall, just outside Needham Market. It’s an exciting moment, and we’re all looking forward to a new era of training. Here’s shot of our new space. We’ll be…

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2020 Beginners Course

New people are always welcome to come along and join in at Satomi Kai Aikido Club, but once a year the club runs a special beginners course. One of these introductory courses will be starting on Sunday 26th January at…

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Broadland Aikido Club: Seminar – Philip Smith Shihan

Broadland Aikido Club are proud to present a weekend of Aikido and Iaido conducted by Philip Smith Shihan on 9th & 10th November. We hope you are able to attend and support this rare event of a weekend of Aikido…

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Inori Aikikai Seminar

Seminar weekend in East Anglia with Peter Brown Shihan, 6 Dan Aikikai. Members of all organisations and styles welcome. Bring jo and bokken. Whole course: £10 Woolpit Village Hall Mill Lane, IP30 9QX Bury St. Edmunds October 5th. 11 am…

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Cambridge Aiki Dojo Seminar – Terry Ezra Shihan

Cambridge Aiki Dojo is very much looking forward to Terry Ezra Shihan (7th Dan, Aikikai) visiting again. Times: Saturday, 21 September: 14:00 – 17:00 , Sunday, 22 September: 10:00 to 13:00 Location: University Sports Centre (Philippa Fawcett Dr, CB3 0AS)…

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A busy year…

It’s been a very focussed year for our members this past year, all training very hard to improve and develop across the board. In addition to giving it their all in class, students have been attending Aikido seminars with many…

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Seki Shoji seminar

Seki Shoji Seminar

Seminar with Seki Shoji Shihan. All students welcome. Please take bokken, Jo and proof of insurance. Contact Neil Mould: ndmould@yahoo.co.uk

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New Aikido Classes in Norton, Bury St Edmunds

Satomi Kai Aikido are excited to announce the opening of a new midweek classes on Thursdays at the Norton Village Hall. Currently, as well as local members, we have many people travelling from as far East of Stowmarket as Felixstowe….

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Aikido: Instructor Training

It must have caught me when the zanshin was low. Sensei Sion emailed me with news of a British Aikido Board instructors course, BAB approved, at Woodford Green. It’s a place I know well so, ‘Yes’ I thought, might be…

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Aikido Legend to visit the UK

Following young Alec’s  trip to Europe to train with world-renowned Aikido teacher Christian Tissier, soon the rest of the club will have the opportunity to share the experience as he comes to the UK to teach a special seminar. On…

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Aikido beginners course

Satomi Kai Aikido would like to extend a warm welcome to all the new students who joined our beginners course this month. We’ve had a good response to the course again, and our new starters seem a great bunch –…

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A Celebration of Aikido

Every year in early January, our governing body, the Kai Shin Kai gives everyone an opportunity do dust off the Christmas cobwebs and burn some of the one-too-many chocolates by starting the year with a national aikido seminar. In that…

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Aikido Beginners Course

Aikido Beginners Course

New people are always welcome to come along and join in at Satomi Kai, but once a year the club runs a special beginners course. One of these introductory courses will be starting on Sunday 24th January at the Mid…

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Onami Dojo Visit

Following the success of our This Girl Can session where we were the hosts, we started this month with an outing to be guests at someone else’s class. We’ve always encouraged cross-training at Satomi Kai, as an important part of…

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This Girl Can – Do Aikido

You have likely already seen the TV adverts for ‘This Girl Can’ – a national campaign developed by Sport England and a wide range of partnership organisations. It’s a celebration of active women up and down the country who are…

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New Midweek Aikido Classes At MSLC

Satomi Kai Aikido has opened new midweek classes at the Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre in Stowmarket. Satomi Kai have long standing ties with the centre, as the club has run martial arts classes there for almost 30 years. Both the…

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Aikido Seminar with Bill Harris (7th Dan)

On Sunday March 3rd, Satomi Kai Aikido had the great pleasure of hosting a one-day seminar in Stowmarket with Sensei Bill Harris, and two of his assistant instructors.
Sensei Harris has been training in Aikido for over fourty years, attaining the rank of 7th dan, and is the Chief Instructor / Examiner of the Kai Shin Kai.

Aikido Peace Week

Aiki Peace Week

This month, Satomi Kai Aikido held a special class as part of International Aiki Peace Week. Aiki is the core of Aikido, and means not going against the flow/movement the attack, but instead sidestepping the power of the attack, joining…

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Movember 2013

This month is special for a charity that has come to mean a lot to Satomi Kai Aikido. It is of course Movember… Last year, our facially-hirsute team raised over £800 for the cancer charity, and this time we are…

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Aikido Coaching Qualifications

New Aikido Coaching Qualifications

This month two of our instructors, Sion Oxford and Adrian Munteanu, stepped their teaching up a gear with a British Aikido Board Advance coaching course. Known as the CL2 course, it consists of several distinct and lengthy sessions. It was…

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Aikido Gradings & Seminars

Its been a busy time at Satomi Kai Aikido, as much of this month has been spent on grading exams. Almost all the club members took exams this time around, across a whole range of levels. For some members it…

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Kai Shin Kai Seminar

This month, students from Satomi Kai Aikido in Stowmarket took a trip to Oxfordshire for a national seminar at our organisations headquarters in Aylsbury Teaching on the day was shared by Roy Chandler and Ian Morgan, both senior instructors in…

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Thursday Aikido Classes now open

We are happy to announce that after much work, we now have a Thursday night Aikido class at the Cedars Park Community Centre in Stowmarket. The class is taught by Sensei Adrian Munteanu, of the Aikikai. Classes run from 8.00…

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Tameshigiri Seminar

On Sunday May 26th, students from Satomi Kai had another opportunity to take part in a Tameshigiri seminar. Tameshigiri is the Japanese sword art of cutting rolled mats with a single strike. Sword work is an integral part of Aikido, but…

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Community Centre Open day

Today Members attended the opening weekend of Cedars Park Community centre. A huge thank you to those people that turned out. Especially thank you to those who took part in the several demonstrations during the day. It had been rather…

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