Center Point Aikido

Center Point Aikido Class schedule : Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday 7:15 - 8:30 PM. It is a form of Budo – a martial way. It denotes a path of understanding, a way of life.

Practicing Aikido creates a greater sense of health and well-being by emphasizing mindful practice, breathing awareness, and proper body alignment, all while developing effective self defense techniques that do not require strength to be effective. Sunday classes are free and open to everyone

Aikido is more than simply an efficient method of self-defense. PHYSICAL BENEFITS - Aikido training is excellent for all-around physical fitness, flexibility, and relaxation. While activities such as weight-lifting emphasize contractive power, it can increase tension, decrease flexibility, and stress the joints. Aikido emphasizes expansive power, where your body learns to move from your center, where you are most powerful, in a relaxed and coordinated manner, and that power is extended out through the relaxed limbs. In a martial context, a person who masters expansive power can often overcome a person who is much bigger or stronger. PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS - The physical relaxation learned in Aikido becomes mental relaxation. Aikido training requires the student to face conflict, not to run away from it. Patterns of avoidance and fear are broken. Unlike other arts, Aikido technique can be applied at varying levels of severity, from gentle to most severe, making it ideal for a wide range of situations and occupations. To develop the true human potential, some form of discipline and refinement is necessary. Training in Aikido allows us to develop awareness, decisiveness, inner power and compassion. Ultimately, our true dojo is our life itself and Aikido offers us a unified training methodology designed to bring about this realization and put it to good use. This is the legacy of the martial ways, and the true value of Aikido training. Aikido class is led by Craig Johnson, who’s studied Aikido since 1991. Questions? [email protected] or visit us on Facebook. Looking forward to seeing you on the mat.

Nice interview with Sensei Okamoto -
09/02/2026

Nice interview with Sensei Okamoto -

Interview with Okamoto Shihan in anticipation of the her seminar or...

08/28/2026
07/28/2026

The Japanese idiom "Dokuritsu Doppo" (独立独歩) translates closely to "stand alone, walk alone." It is not a preference for solitude; it is the recognition that a road only builds the man who actually walks it.

Support does not feel like a debt. It feels like an advantage, and it is one; you will move faster with it than without it, and every measurement available to you will confirm that. There is no moment where the help declares what it is taking. It simply works, visibly, in your favour. That is the whole of the disguise.

Dokuritsu Doppo is the recognition that nothing was taken from you, and that is what it cost.

Strength that is never demanded is never built, and you cannot notice a thing that did not happen. There is no wound to point at. No moment where you felt it go. So you mistake how far you've come for what you're made of, and you will go on mistaking it until the day something arrives that the help is not there for.

A tree grown inside a forest rises fast and thin. Sheltered on every side, it never has to answer the wind, so it writes nothing into the grain; it spends everything on height and borrows the rest from the trunks around it. The tree in the open field grows slower and denser, and records every wind it has survived directly into the wood.

When the storm comes, the forest goes down together.

The tree in the field was never sheltered. That is the only reason it is still standing.

Doshu doing just about every technique there is, and most excellently.
07/28/2026

Doshu doing just about every technique there is, and most excellently.

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Success is not always measured by the outcome.Sometimes, the greatest achievement is simply choosing to show up with you...
07/17/2026

Success is not always measured by the outcome.

Sometimes, the greatest achievement is simply choosing to show up with your whole heart.

Ganbaru (頑張る) reminds us that effort, sincerity, and resilience have their own value.

You may not always see the results immediately.
You may face uncertainty, setbacks, or moments of doubt.

But every time you keep going with courage and kindness, you strengthen your spirit.

Keep showing up. Your journey is already shaping you.

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