About Us

Seimeikan Aikido – The Developing Years:

Mits Karasawa Sensei 1985 – 2003

Seimeikan Dojo was established in 1985 as a member of the International Yoshinkai Aikido Federation. Seimeikan’s Head Instructor was Mitsugoro Karasawa who studied directly under Gozo Shioda, Founder of Yoshinkan style. Karasawa Sensei is a seventh dan black belt and has over 35 years of teaching and Aikido involvement. Literally the word SEIMEIKAN translates as:
SEI means pure,
MEI means light up,
KAN means house;
therefore a place in which to light up or reveal your purity.
The intention in creating SEIMEIKAN was to provide a place where we could train our minds and bodies, to create a true spirit of harmony and to ultimately create better human beings both mentally and physically.

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