{"id":508,"date":"2014-03-14T22:55:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T02:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=508"},"modified":"2014-03-14T22:55:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T02:55:55","slug":"new-dojo-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"New dojo in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Heins-dojo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-512\" alt=\"Heins dojo 1\" src=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Heins-dojo-1.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Heins-dojo-1.jpg 330w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Heins-dojo-1-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Heins-dojo-1-313x300.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a>Welcome to our newest Birankai Aikido dojo, <a href=\"nwmiaikikai.com\">Northwest Michigan <\/a><a href=\"nwmiaikikai.com\">Aikikai<\/a> in Traverse City, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Instructor Katherine (Roo) Heins started Aikido in 1994 and<br \/>\ntrained with Chiba Sensei in San Diego for five years. After leaving<br \/>\nSan Diego, she spent seven years in Tokyo practicing at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo under Aikido Doshu Moriteru Ueshiba.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her godan shidoin rank in Aikido, Heins Sensei holds yondan rank in Muso Shinden Ryu Iaido and shodan rank in Shotokan<br \/>\nKarate <!--more-->from the Shotokan Hombu Dojo in Tokyo. She also practices the<br \/>\nJapanese tea ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Heins Sensei is available for Aikido and Iaido seminars and is eager<br \/>\nto visit her fellow Birankai teachers.<\/p>\n<p>This newly posted video is from Heins Sensei&#8217;s class at Birankai Aikido Summer Camp 2012 in Bronxville, NY.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A4m-TUMW7TA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video below is footage from Heins Sensei&#8217;s 2009 Iaido sandan test at the Tokyo Budokan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sandan test, Part I\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/6655216?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>-L. Klein<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our newest Birankai Aikido dojo, Northwest Michigan Aikikai in Traverse City, Michigan. Chief Instructor Katherine (Roo) Heins started Aikido in 1994 and trained with Chiba Sensei in San Diego for five years. After leaving San Diego, she spent seven years in Tokyo practicing at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo under Aikido Doshu Moriteru Ueshiba. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New dojo in Michigan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RSKg-8c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}