Yuwakan

Aikido Dojo in Woodland Heights Houston

Updates/News

• Jaideep Sensei, Kato Shihan, and Karen Sensei (Nov 2009) - (Jaideep Sensei was awarded San-dan, 3rd degree black belt, certificate at the seminar)

• Texas Roppokai Group at Fremont CA Seminar (Sep 2011) - Dr. Aiki (Jaideep Sensei) and Karen Sensei were Awarded Shodan (black belts) at the Seminar

• Dr. Aiki (Jaideep Sensei) receiving Shodan certificate (black belt) in the art of Roppokai from Soshi Okamoto (Fremont CA Sep 2011)

Yuwakan - training hall (kan) to cultivate harmony (wa) and friendships (yu) through the serious practice of Aikido, martial art of peace

Yuwakan is the only Aikikai-affiliated aikido dojo in Houston Heights area.

Our official dojo name, given by Shihan Hiroshi Kato in 2007, is Yuwakan. It means a training hall to cultivate friendships and harmony. In Lakota Native American folklore, it also means "moving away from profane and mundane to sacred and spiritual". We like both these meanings.