This year’s Aikido Spring Seminar will be held on Saturday, April 19, 1-4pm with Tenzan Aikido at the Seattle Holistic Center (7700 Aurora Ave N., Seattle, WA 98103). Co-instruction by chief instructors Bruce Bookman Sensei and Jonathan Bannister Sensei will focus on shared history and friendship. $45 fee includes dedication ceremony for Tsubomi Seishin Kan’s new Edmonds dojo. […]
Tsubomi Seishin Kan Dojo, LLC (e-mail: wjbannister at verizon dot net) has moved its Aikido: A Gentle Art of Self-Defense and Iaido: Japanese Swordsmanship programs to two area community centers. See our new schedule and location information below. We have closed the Phinney dojo and moved our headquarters to our beautiful new headquarters in Edmonds, WA. We will have […]
“Budo martial arts techniques reveal the character of the practitioner
and should express a spirit of loving protection for all beings.”
- Jonathan Bannister Sensei, Founder of Tsubomi Seishin Kan Dojo
Congratulations! You’ve found an exciting community of men, women, and children devoted to Japanese Budo martial arts and traditional culture. Tsubomi Seishin Kan Dojo offers ongoing instruction in […]
Jonathan Bannister, Aikido Shihan, AJKF Iaido 4th dan
“The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood as a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek competition are making a grave mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst sin a human being can commit. The real Way of the Warrior is to prevent […]
Well folks, I can now carve another notch on the old saya. I was successful in my March 18, 2007 bid to make yondan (4th-degree blackbelt grade) in All Japan Kendo Renmei Iai. I was pleased to confirm my own sense of continued progress, and to be able to provide another level of insight to […]
“Every time I go to the dojo I find the peace that many of us are looking for, I find that happiness of being who we really are. It doesn’t matter who is better , is about how much we have improved and how we get closer to the harmony of mother nature. It is fun […]
Sensei Bannister comments on the founding of his new dojo.
More than 28 years have gone by since I began studying the Japanese Budo martial arts of Aikido and Iaido. I have benefited from many great teachers, including Shuji Maruyama Sensei of Kokikai-ryu Aikido, Yoshimoto Trent Sensei (Kendo nannidan kyoshi, Iaido nannidan renshi) and Yuri Trent Sensei (Iaido nannadan kyoshi) of the […]
Recently we were contacted by a freelance author working on a profile of the founder of Tsubomi Seishin Kan Dojo, Jonathan Bannister Sensei. A series of questions revealed his ideas on the relevance of Aikido and other Budo martial arts disciplines to western lifestyles. His responses are detailed below:
How many years have you been teaching […]
Tsubomi Seishin Kan Dojo, LLC is an independent martial arts school offering inspired instruction for men, women, and children in Aikido: A Gentle Art of Defense and Iaido: Japanese Swordsmanship. Our teacher, Jonathan Bannister Sensei, achieved a splendid realization in 2006 after more than 25 years of dedicated study of Aikido, 23 years of study of Iaido, and […]
