March 7, 2026
Saturday / 1-day
Registration
Tuition: $75
Includes instruction + lunch buffet
All women, all experience levels, all lineages welcome.
Discounts: Aikido of Santa Cruz members receive a 20% discount, Students 10%, and Teens 50% on any registration option.
Our theme for this year is: Exploring Women’s Lineage in Aikido. Women were practicing Aikido with O-Sensei right from the beginning. We are all part of the women’s lineage they initiated – those of us who have been training for many decades, as well as women who started their training last month. New beginners among us now might be regarded as foremothers to future generations of women in Aikido.
As we train together at the annual Women’s Aikido Seminar, we honor the women who came before us, we honor our own practice, and we honor the women aikidoka of the future.
Please join us on March 7 in Santa Cruz!
– Linda Holiday, 7th dan, Aikido of Santa Cruz
– Penny Sablove, 6th dan, Heart of San Francisco Aikido
2026 Women’s Aikido Seminar
“The purpose of Aikido is to build a heaven on earth by bringing people together in friendship and harmony.”
— Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei
Lineage flows in both directions from the past to the present to the future, and between eras of women in Aikido.
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Mariye Takahashi Sensei
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Fukiko Sunadomari Sensei
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Virginia Mayhew Sensei
