Aikido Tacoma Aikikai

Tacoma Aikikai is dedicated to sharing aikido to empower youth and adults in the South Puget Sound. By offering non-violent conflict resolution through rigorous physical training, aikido can promote harmony and equality throughout our community.

While embracing a traditional aikido training environment, rooted in the lineage and discipline of Japanese martial traditions, we are committed to cultivating students actively engaged in creating a diverse, inclusive, and mutually supportive society. In addition to classes at the dojo, we welcome opportunities to bring the benefits of aikido to schools and community groups through aikido or auxiliary self-defense, empowerment, and movement classes. Tacoma Aikikai welcomes practitioners of all nationalities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, faiths, ages, and abilities.

Chief instructor, Ea Murphy Sensei, has studied aikido for almost two decades in both the Pacific Northwest and Japan. She moved from Kyoto, Japan to Tacoma to found Tacoma Aikikai in 2016. We started adult/teen classes at Urban Grace Church in November 2016 and launched our kids program in March of 2017.

Tacoma Aikikai is affiliated with the International Aikido Headquarters, Hombu Dojo, through our parent organization Birankai North America, founded by the late T.K. Chiba Shihan.

Tacoma Aikikai is a participant of Spaceworks Tacoma.