Aikido Summer Seminar 2021 - Linda Holiday Shihan
Aikido Summer Seminar 2021
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41m
Since her return to the United States, Linda Holiday has focused on the transmission of Aikido in her native California as well as teaching seminars in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Complementing her training in Japan with academic study in the West, she received a BA in Japanese and Chinese Studies from UCSC in 1979 and a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University in 1983. She taught Aikido for six years at UCSC before leading a group of students and instructors to start a community dojo (now called Aikido of Santa Cruz) in 1982. Since that time, Linda Sensei has served as the executive director and chief instructor of ASC, a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to serving the local, national, and international community through Aikido, an art of peace and "building the world family". In 2020, Linda Sensei was honored to receive a 7th degree black belt from the Aikikai Foundation in Japan, awarded by Moriteru Ueshiba, Aikido Doshu, the grandson of Aikido's founder.
While Linda Sensei was training in Kumano, Japan, in the 1970s, she was especially inspired by Motomichi Anno Sensei (8th dan) and began a lifelong connection as his student and interpreter. She has brought him to the United States many times to teach.
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