The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning
Dec
7
11:15 AM11:15

The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning

Join us the first Saturday of every month for 30 minutes of meditation, stretching, and soji (cleaning)!

Each month these special sessions will be lead by a different person. The meditation can take any form: sitting, moving, or guided (with or without music). The cleaning, too, can be a meditation. The purpose of the meditation is to reflect on the past week's chores, our priorities, our month, and quiet our minds.

Check out this article from the May 2022 issue of Inryoku and this one from from January 2021 issue to learn more about the connection between aikido and meditation.

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The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning
Nov
2
11:15 AM11:15

The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning

Join us the first Saturday of every month for 30 minutes of meditation, stretching, and soji (cleaning)!

Each month these special sessions will be lead by a different person. The meditation can take any form: sitting, moving, or guided (with or without music). The cleaning, too, can be a meditation. The purpose of the meditation is to reflect on the past week's chores, our priorities, our month, and quiet our minds.

Check out this article from the May 2022 issue of Inryoku and this one from from January 2021 issue to learn more about the connection between aikido and meditation.

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The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning
Oct
5
11:15 AM11:15

The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning

Join us the first Saturday of every month for 30 minutes of meditation, stretching, and soji (cleaning)!

Each month these special sessions will be lead by a different person. The meditation can take any form: sitting, moving, or guided (with or without music). The cleaning, too, can be a meditation. The purpose of the meditation is to reflect on the past week's chores, our priorities, our month, and quiet our minds.

Check out this article from the May 2022 issue of Inryoku and this one from from January 2021 issue to learn more about the connection between aikido and meditation.

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The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning
Sep
7
11:15 AM11:15

The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning

Join us the first Saturday of every month for 30 minutes of meditation, stretching, and soji (cleaning)!

Each month these special sessions will be lead by a different person. The meditation can take any form: sitting, moving, or guided (with or without music). The cleaning, too, can be a meditation. The purpose of the meditation is to reflect on the past week's chores, our priorities, our month, and quiet our minds.

Check out this article from the May 2022 issue of Inryoku and this one from from January 2021 issue to learn more about the connection between aikido and meditation.

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The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning
Aug
3
11:15 AM11:15

The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning

Join us the first Saturday of every month for 30 minutes of meditation, stretching, and soji (cleaning)!

Each month these special sessions will be lead by a different person. The meditation can take any form: sitting, moving, or guided (with or without music). The cleaning, too, can be a meditation. The purpose of the meditation is to reflect on the past week's chores, our priorities, our month, and quiet our minds.

Check out this article from the May 2022 issue of Inryoku and this one from from January 2021 issue to learn more about the connection between aikido and meditation.

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The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning
Jul
6
11:15 AM11:15

The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning

Join us the first Saturday of every month for 30 minutes of meditation, stretching, and soji (cleaning)!

Each month these special sessions will be lead by a different person. The meditation can take any form: sitting, moving, or guided (with or without music). The cleaning, too, can be a meditation. The purpose of the meditation is to reflect on the past week's chores, our priorities, our month, and quiet our minds.

Check out this article from the May 2022 issue of Inryoku and this one from from January 2021 issue to learn more about the connection between aikido and meditation.

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The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning
Jun
1
11:15 AM11:15

The Art of Sweeping: Meditation and Cleaning

Join us the first Saturday of every month for 30 minutes of meditation, stretching, and soji (cleaning)!

Each month these special sessions will be lead by a different person. The meditation can take any form: sitting, moving, or guided (with or without music). The cleaning, too, can be a meditation. The purpose of the meditation is to reflect on the past week's chores, our priorities, our month, and quiet our minds.

Check out this article from the May 2022 issue of Inryoku and this one from from January 2021 issue to learn more about the connection between aikido and meditation.

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Intro to Aikido Workshop
May
5
10:00 AM10:00

Intro to Aikido Workshop

Get a jump start on your martial arts journey with this special 2-hour workshop for new and experienced adult students (ages 13+)!

The Intro to Aikido Workshop offers everything you need to get started on a journey of self-defense and self-discovery. Our skilled instructors will guide you through fundamental exercises and postures, safe falling and rolling, and self-defense techniques. We’ll also delve into aikido’s philosophy of peaceful conflict resolution. Our dojo is a safe, inclusive, and non-competitive environment. No previous experience or fitness level is needed to get started.

$65 (uniform included)

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Aikido Flexibility and Fitness Workshop
Apr
7
10:00 AM10:00

Aikido Flexibility and Fitness Workshop

Flexibility and fitness are sometimes overlooked aspects of a standard one-hour aikido class. There’s only so much that can be covered in an hour, so we tend to give preference to technique practice.

Join us for a special workshop focused on enhancing flexibility and fitness. Stretch yourself—literally and figuratively—and go beyond what’s achievable in a one-hour class.

Students of all ranks are welcome and encouraged to attend! Sign up below.

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Music in the Dojo: Dúo Copla and Dúo Kaplan Mansilla
Mar
9
6:30 PM18:30

Music in the Dojo: Dúo Copla and Dúo Kaplan Mansilla

Please join us back at the dojo for a fun evening of classical guitar duos! We are featuring Dúo Copla (José Maldonado & Ernesto Ramos) and Dúo Kaplan Mansilla (Matt Kaplan & Pierre Ferreyra-Mansilla) for an evening of Puerto Rican music, Cuban music, and much more!

Here are the details:
👉3/9/2024
👉Doors open at 6:30 pm
👉Music at 7:00 pm
👉 Aikido of South Brooklyn 205 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

BYOB and BYOSnacks! See you there 🎸

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Music in the Dojo: Classical guitar with Matías Inzunza
Dec
16
11:00 AM11:00

Music in the Dojo: Classical guitar with Matías Inzunza

Join us on Saturday 12/16 at 6:00 PM in the dojo for a classical guitar concert presentation by Chilean guitarist Matías Inzunza! The concert will explore the story of Asterión by Jorge Luis Borges. Matías has selected evocative pieces that represent that characters and themes of the story. Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Joaquín Clerch, and more! We hope you can join us for an intimate classical guitar concert exploring storytelling through music. You can find Matías’s beautiful programs in English and Spanish by clicking here.  

Here are the details:

  • 12/16/2023

  • Doors open at 6:00 pm

  • Music at 6:30 pm music

Reception to follow!

Click here to reserve a spot.

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Classical Guitar with Matt Kaplan
Aug
11
6:30 PM18:30

Classical Guitar with Matt Kaplan

As part of the Music in the Dojo concert series, we’re thrilled to be hosting a Groupmuse with classical guitarist Matthew Kaplan. Matt is an amazing guitarist and educator, and has a wonderful program that includes Bach, Satie, and Leo Brouwer’s newly composed Trois Nouvelles Études, which were written during the Covid quarantines.

Feel free to bring your favorite snacks and beverages, take your shoes (literally), and make yourself comfortable for a fantastic performance.

Click here to reserve your spot. We look forward to seeing you there!

ABOUT GROUPMUSE

Groupmuse is a social platform that brings people together around great art through live music house parties. In other words: everyone comes over, we’ll hang out, make friends, listen to an hour of amazing music, and go home happy.

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Concert: Nicoletta Todesco
Jul
29
5:30 PM17:30

Concert: Nicoletta Todesco

On Saturday, July 29, with The Brooklyn Classical Guitar Society, we’ll be hosting a concert with guitarist Nicoletta Todesco. Nicoletta will be performing an original program called The Cockroach Diaries. She describes the program as duets for guitar and voice that, “journey into the mind of a classical guitarist dealing with loneliness, creativity, and ambitions in New York City at the height of the pandemic.” The performance features classical and electric guitar, poetry, and singing. Click here for more info and to reserve your spot.

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Music in the Dojo Presents TIMBILA
May
6
4:00 PM16:00

Music in the Dojo Presents TIMBILA

Join us for our spring concert fundraiser with TIMBILA. TIMBILA blazes ecstatic African rock with an East Village edge. The trance of African spirit possession merges with the trance of free-spirited head-bangers. Surreal buzzing timbila, hypnotic dream melodies of mbira, stinging guitar. In-person and online tickets are available. 

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