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= Welcome to Free Aiki Dojo = "//Peace is conflict done well.//" **(sm)**

Traditional Aikido and Martial Nonviolence Training for all ages //Aiki principles applied to any real world situation//

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 7-8 am //**All potential students may simply appear at any training with no advanced notice**// //**to know where we are on a given day, check the Twitter feed in the left menu**// //**or email**// //**i n f o a t f r e e a i k i d o t c o m**// //**for information at least one day before appearing**//

//**Regular** **students are sent an invitation to an ongoing online poll, in order to co-create our training schedule. This is a way of being more martial about the process of training together: more clear, purposeful, precise, and coordinated.**// Tuesday and Thursday mornings are for private lessons and individual practice in community but no formal group instruction is guaranteed. Please request individual tutorials as needed. Please use the time you have wisely and take responsibility for your own learning. Attending UC or Berkeley High? Come check out other students learning whole-system self-defense of the best kind. All practitioners of all martial arts, including all aikido styles, are welcome to come and learn how we combine traditional aikido and the [|process arts]. Ohlone Park @37.873820,-122.271481 The green area on **Hearst St between Milvia St and Bonita Ave.** In case of rain we duck into the parking area in 1945 Berkeley Way, just around the block from the green area where we train most often.
 * = Most regular place:

Go to the pedestrian door to the right of the westmost garage door (farthest to your left while facing the building). It will be slightly ajar. ||  ||= The map here illustrates the two places we train most frequently, blocks from the Downtown Berkeley BART.

If it is not visible, click here **[]**.

We also use different training area at different times as we adapt training segments to variables on the street.

(< [|Twitter / freeaiki]).
 * The most recent updates will always post to the menu on the left of this page**

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Getting Started
Freedom requires practice from childhood through elder years; peaceful communities able to encourage freedom are built by learning how to do conflict well.

The **Free** in our title refers to the freedom to move, be, and choose what is necessary to work through conflict and build peaceful communities. This is something anyone can do, as soon as they are ready to practice, and beginning does not require any prerequisite.

No money? Come anyway! Support the dojo in other ways. No experience? That's what you think! Learn to work well with conflict of any kind.

Students are particularly welcome and FreeAiki continues to make available, with school/organization sponsorship, classes for any K-12 learning environment as well as workshops based on other [|successful classes in major university] and professional settings. FreeAiki Instructor training is not available at this time.

Please email //**info at freeaiki dot com**// for more details and availability or call //**(866) 236-0346**// and leave a message.

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