Our Dojo

Framingham Aikikai is a traditional Aikido dojo, founded in January 2000. Its Chief Instructor, David Halprin 6th dan, is a student of Mitsunari Kanai Sensei, 8th dan, and studied with him for twenty-seven years.

Kanai Sensei, Chief Instructor of New England Aikikai in Cambridge, was one of the last group of uchideshi (live-in students) of O-Sensei, and studied under the Founder for ten years before being sent to teach Aikido in the US. He taught at New England Aikikai for thirty-eight years until he passed away in March 2004.

Framingham Aikikai has been located since inception at 61 Fountain Street in Framingham. [For detailed directions click here.] 

Its instructors and students were under the continuing technical supervision of Kanai Sensei and now are among those who are continuing to practice Aikido according to his teachings.

There is no other dojo that has an equal concentration of instructors who were close students of Kanai Sensei.

Framingham Aikikai students and instructors come from all over the Metrowest region, as well as from towns closer in, such as Cambridge, Somerville, Waltham, Wellesley, Newton and Boston, and from towns in the Worcester area.