Aiki Team Building System
Help your team realize their full potential - together.
Instructor
Lia Suzuki Sensei
6th dan Aikikai
National Director: Aikido Kenkyukai International USA
Empower and transform your team.
The Aiki Team Building System is based on the principles of the revolutionary martial art of Aikido.
Aikido not only gives us the tools to defend ourselves, but also to protect our attacker from harm. This makes it unique among martial arts.
This philosophy of embracing conflict so that we have the opportunity to transform that conflict into a positive force is at the heart of the philosophy of Aikido. This makes Aikido the perfect tool in transforming the workplace into a harmonious but powerful environment.
Now is the perfect time.
Empower and transform your team to achieve your goals now.
Some of the things your team will learn
Building New Reflexes
We'll explore and analyze how we react when faced with various challenges, being careful to identify what type of reactions serve us and what types don't. We'll then explore new ways to react that will be more beneficial to us and our teammates.
Reinforcing New Patterns
The reptilian brain wants to take us into "fight, flight, or freeze" mode when we feel threatened. We'll practice the new patterns and reactions we've been developing so we can more easily summon these new reflexes and experience the power and peace in conflict transformation.
Challenging Ourselves
Can we maintain these new principles both on and off the mat? Can we experience peace and joy, while moving our bodies and getting a workout? We'll have a spacious workout room to explore our new skills and challenge ourselves to support each other in a joyfully uplifting, physical workout.
Freedom in Correct Movement
Our final class will culminate in a celebration of your hard work. We'll celebrate your new-found freedom that comes with having more options and tools when faced with conflict or challenges.
Program Content Description
Weekly Live Sessions with Lia Suzuki Sensei
You will meet with Lia Sensei at her Aikido dojo in Los Angeles. Sessions are interactive and transformative.
Video Replays of Every Session
Each session will be recorded and uploaded to a private online area. Participants will have lifetime access the video recordings for future reference and review.
Weekly Live Q&A Session
The final part of each class will be a Q&A session.
The Q&A sessions with Lia Sensei are a great way to help you to better understand that day's class, as well as express special areas of interest for the next session.
Your Instructor:
Lia Suzuki Sensei
6th dan, Aikikai
National Director: Aikido Kenkyukai International USA
Lia Suzuki Sensei is National Director and Founder of Aikido Kenkyukai International USA and author of the book, "The Teacher" from (The Aiki Dialogues).
She has been practicing the martial art of Aikido for over 40 years. For nearly 10 of those years, she lived and trained intensively in Japan under Yoshinobu Takeda and other masters of the art.
She currently is based in Los Angeles, and directly oversees several dojos in her network in the USA. Suzuki Sensei travels extensively throughout the world, and has taught seminars in cities, such as Shanghai, Berlin, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Philadelphia, Sydney, Brussels, and more.
Her mission is to foster inclusion in the Aikido world, rather than division, and to increase Aikido’s popularity among youth and those in their 20's and 30's.
What people are saying...
"Lia Sensei changed my life. Her teachings in Aikido have had a profound impact on who I am today and continue to shape me everyday into a stronger, more grounded person.
Lia Sensei is truly a one-of-a-kind teacher. She is passionate to no end about Aikido which comes through in her thoughtful though very Japanese style of teaching. Her Aikido classes always leave me drenched in sweat by the end which I have almost never experienced anywhere else (except Japan!) They are intense, dynamic, and feel the way a martial art should truly feel, like a sacred practice."
"Lia Sensei spent years in Japan absorbing the essence of Aikido training and Japanese perseverance and grace from great teachers, and in turn she now transmits that depth of feeling to her students. Her fundraising and charitable works are exemplary, and she does lots with very little. She is admired from far and wide."
Nat McCully
"I came looking for exercise I wouldn't get bored of and self defense skills, and while I still get plenty of training in those areas, the reasons I come to Aikido have expanded. I now find aikido training helps with emotional strength, mental clarity, spiritual growth, confidence, and even communication (or as we call it, verbal aikido)."
"Lia Suzuki Sensei is a highly qualified teacher of Aikido. She is one of the senior women in the United States in the art. Her training history is top notch and her instruction is powerful, clear, and personable. Very professional."
George Ledyard
"I've found Suzuki Sensei to be a very effective teacher and martial artist. She combines quality of communication, technical proficiency, and a sense of joy in her teaching and technique.
I am also very impressed with her drive and commitment to improving access to Aikido programs for youth, especially those who might otherwise not have the opportunity to receive the benefits of Aikido training."
"I started training aikido in early 2009. Aikido was a good match for me as I wanted a martial art that I could continue doing my entire life. Unfortunately, I've moved around a lot since then - and while I've kept my Aikido up I haven't had one dojo as a "home base." On the other hand, I've worked with many instructors and seen a WIDE range of teaching styles.
Finally, once I arrived in LA I signed up for some intro classes with Kenkyukai to see if the dojo would be a good fit for me. A few classes later, I signed up for the year. Suzuki Sensei embodies many of the principals of Aikido and comes from a direct lineage of Aikidoka. What this means for the layman is she's "close" to the source. She's very skilled and deeply cares about the art."
