Shoheijuku Aikido

Shoheijuku Newsletter January 2025

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Happy New Year! I hope the New year finds you in excellent spirits. 

I would like to cultivate healthy body and peaceful mind through Aikido with all of you this year again. 

I started practicing the Makko-ho exercise five years after I started Aikido, which is currently adopted into the Aikido preparatory exercises. 

 In a book I received from my Makko-ho teacher, it says “There is a doctor within our own body.” and “We have a medication within our own body.” 

My hip joint and knee joints started to become stiff and hurt since last February. After an examination at a hospital, I was diagnosed with a rheumatoid arthritis.  

Since then, I have been visiting the hospital for a treatment once a month. Thanks to the treatment, I am feeling less pain and I can somehow manage my everyday life and practicing Aikido now. 

55th Commemorative Embukai

The commemorative embukai for Morito Suganuma Shihan’s 55th Anniversary in Kyushu.

  • Date: May 3rd, 2025
  • Location: Fukuoka Budokan
Events in January

⦿ Hatsu Geiko 

  • January 2nd 
  • Tenjin Dojo
  • Practice 10:30 ~
  • Naorai (post-ceremony party) 12:00 ~ 

* Omiki (sacred sake) will be served. 

5 – First day of regular classes
11 – Aikikai Branch Liaison Meeting 
(Suganuma, Yamada)
12 – Aikikai Kagami Biraki
(Suganuma, Yamada)
16 – Kurume Dojo (Fujioka) 
16 – Koga Dojo (Yamada)

⦿ Shoheijuku Kagami Biraki 

  • Sunday, January 19th
  • Tenjin Dojo
  • Practice 10:00 ~ 
  • Ceremony 11:30 ~ 
  • Zenzai-kai 12:15 ~
  • Instructors’ meeting 13:30 ~
  • Naorai (post-ceremony party) 14:15 ~

20 – Kasuya Shoheijuku (Kido)
21 – Fukuma Ladies (Fujioka)
22 – Saga Shoheijuku (Fujioka)
24 – Fukuma Dojo (Fujioka)
26 – Yoga & Zazenkai

Kan-geiko 

For one week until February 3rd, we will have the annual kan-geiko (winter practice period) at 6 Shohei Juku main dojos. Please join us!

⦿ The schedule may change depending on the situation. We appreciate your understanding.

— Morito Suganuma