Event Details
Charles Sensei’s 2024 visit to Oakland Aikido
location: 1728 62nd St Berkeley
limited parking available in lot
day + time: Monday, 11/17, 6:30-8 PM
mat fee: sliding scale, $20-40*
masking: we ask participants to wear (K)N95 masks and will provide one if you forget yours
pre-registration required: space is limited to 10 participants. Once full, additional registrants will be added to a wait list.
*No one turned away for lack of funds
About the instructor
Charles Colten Sensei, 6th Dan and Founder and Director of Aikido in the Schools, is a direct student (deshi) of Endo Shihan and has also been greatly influenced by other mentors including Jan Nevelius Sensei, Jorma Lyly Sensei, Seigo Okamoto Sensei, and Mary Heiny Sensei. As an eternal student who is deeply informed by the living world, Colten Sensei considers the study, practice, and sharing of Aikido as “his lens, his window, his mirror, his medicine…and an endless wellspring of knowledge, wisdom, and joy.”
Colten Sensei has given Aikido seminars in the USA, Canada, and Latin America. As founder of the Confluence Institute, he has also brought Aikido principles and practices into the fields of Conflict Resolution, Stress Management, and Leadership Coaching; providing trainings for Judges, School Administrators, Teachers, Healers, Consultants, and Business Professionals. For more, visit www.circle123.org.
Colten Sensei may also be credited with supporting Oakland Aikido founders, Evie Lynch and César San Miguel, in many ways over the last 10+ years, including introducing them to their primary teacher, Jan Nevelius Shihan. We are eternally grateful and thrilled to host him at our dojo again.
On this West Coast visit, Charles Sensei is also teaching at:
Mattole Valley Aikido, Friday 11/7 - Sunday 11/9