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Reading Zenshin Iwama Aikido Club - Berkshire

The Reading Zenshin Iwama Aikido Club is in Reading in Berkshire. The club is run by Sensei John Garmston and Sensei Peter Hagger.

Please visit the Reading Aikido website for more details: Reading Aikido

Reading Zenshin Club has been up and running since 2002 and is run by Sensei John Garmston (4th Dan) who has been training in aikido for over 23 years and Sensei Peter Hagger (3rd Dan) who has been training for over 14 years!
The club has three training nights at present: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (see website for details).

Reading is a large town, in Berkshire, situated 30 minutes from London. It has a growing multi cultural population and good infrastructure!

Reading was established around the 6th Century by the Saxons. Orginally called Reada ingas, which means People of Reada, Reading was a great location as it is next to two rivers (Kennet and Thames). This meant the wool and other goods could be transported to Reading via the rivers. It was/is a prosperous town because of this. Reading also was a good pit stop between London and the West country as it used to be a much longer journey from London to Bristol!

The population in Reading is now about 150,000 people.

Berkshire is in the South East of England and is a Royal County. Berkshire is based next to London, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. It's major towns including Reading, Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell and Ascot.

"Zen Shin" means "Zen mind" or "Zen heart."
"Shin" is the complete human being - intellect, emotion, thought, word, deed.
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Some of the members:

Sanya Ozic - 2nd Dan
Doug Edwards - 2nd Dan
Jason Rodwell - 1st Dan
David Partington- 1st Kyu
Petra Minott - 1st Kyu
Steve Nester - 2nd Kyu
Danny Bailey - 2nd Kyu
Andy Dumpleton - 2nd Kyu
Helen Middleton - 3rd Kyu

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