Kimberly Richardson
Kimberly Richardson, MA, LMT, 6th dan, is the founder and chief instructor of Two Cranes Aikido in Seattle, WA, and the Executive Director of Two Cranes Institute. She began her training in 1978 and has studied thoughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan, most notably with Mary Heiny Sensei and Motomichi Anno, Saotome and Ikeda Shihans, Terry Dobson and Tom Read Senseis. In 2008 she founded Two Cranes Institute that provides educational and embodied leadership programs in the Seattle community and beyond. Her goal is to share O Sensei’s principles and practices that cultivate peaceful solutions to conflict and encourage nonviolent action.