Yuwakan

Yuwakan is the only Aikikai-affiliated aikido dojo in the Houston Heights area. It is located at NiaMoves dance studio on 3221 Houston Avenue, Houston TX 77009. Yuwakan is a member dojo of the Shudokan School of Aikido in Houston, which is affiliated to Aikikai Foundation in Tokyo, Japan. Shihan Hiroshi Kato, eighth degree black belt, is the Master Instructor at this school.

Our official dojo name, given by Shihan Hiroshi Kato in 2007, is Yuwakan. It means a training hall to cultivate friendships and harmony. In Lakota Native American folklore, it also means "moving away from profane and mundane to sacred and spiritual". We like both these meanings.