This is not a traditional seminar but a week with expanded training opportunities and events and all visitors must be approved and should pre-register. You can do this by selecting Teachers Retreat from the options. Sign up now If you have any questions please email Info@aikidoofmaine.com
August 7 -11 – 2024
A Retreat on Principle
This summer we will host our fourth Teachers Retreat. Friends and teachers will join us to share ideas about teaching and practice together. This is one of our favorite events of the year for ourselves and for our dojo members. This year we have added student events to the schedule. A teachers retreat on principle.
The Teachers:
Jennifer Barr, Lee Crawford, Robert Deppe, Don Ellingsworth, Don Hebert, Mat Heersche, Tres Hofmeister, Eugene and Kamenna Lee, Gary and Ania Small, Julie Tollen, Richard Webb and Marsha Turner
2023 tee shirt
The design is inspired by Saotome senseis art work with a key aikido principle of Triangle, Circle, Square. (rock, Paper, Scissors)
Only a med and large available as of July 21order is on the way!
Our weeks schedule is expanded with classes and events for teachers and students. This is an event for the teachers visiting and our dojo membership along with some other invited guests. It is not a seminar but an expanded training opportunity for members and guests. There is an outside weapons class Saturday afternoon in Harpswell and a party. There is no fee for our dojo members for this event! Come to as much of this as you are able. Below are some comments from last years participants. Visitors wishing to participate should check in with their participating teacher or contact the dojo Info@aikidoofmaine.com
Approved visitors should pre register. You can do this by selecting Teachers Retreat from the options. Sign up now
“Directions for Saturday”
Weapons class and party.
About 40 minutes from the dojo! It is on Leavitt Island in harpswell. There is a foot bridge to get you there. Parking is on The road as the driveway is not ours. my cell is 207-725-9207. Bring protective shoes bokken and short sword if you have them, We will have some to borrow.Also a bathing suit and some water shoes if you wish. we will grill fish and have some beverages. bring other food to share.
Directions to Leavitt Island, Cundy’s Harbor:
Rte. 295 North (20 minutes)
Take the exit to Rte 1 North, Brunswick, Bath Follow Rte 1 North to Cooks Corner Exit (bends left after a couple of miles)
Go straight through the lights in Cook’s Corner and follow Rte 24 South for 4 miles
Take a left on Cundy’s Harbor Road and follow it for 4 miles
Take a right on Oakhurst Island Rd (4th drive way) Park the car on Oakhurst Island Rd near Leavitt Island Lane. The drive way is not ours , so please don’t drive down Leavitt Island Ln.
Walk down the driveway (Leavitt Island Lane) and over the bridge.
Welcome!!
Tentative Event Schedule based on weather etc.
Reflections from our last retreat
“It’s difficult to sum up the experience of this year’s Teachers Retreat in just a few sentences — after the pandemic it was so moving to have visitors at all — and even more so to have such a group of extraordinary, committed, compassionate people join us in the dojo to train and teach for a week.”
“I am so so grateful for the experience. And am at a loss for words to convey my gratitude for the honor of testing in the supportive, rigorous, alive environment of that event.”
“For a first Aikido seminar experience, I couldn’t have asked for a better one. I had so much fun. It was fun seeing all of the different teaching styles, and the different lenses that we view Aikido though. I learned a lot, and am really glad that I went.”
“What an amazing time, I am filled with gratitude when I think of how many teachers came to share their training, thoughts, Aikido philosophy, and presence. We have such a generous community!”
“Each teacher had their unique emphasis of basic technique, showing that no matter how long you train refinement has fathomless depths.”
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