Lia Suzuki Sensei has been training Aikido since 1982. She moved to Kamakura, Japan in 1987 to pursue her studies with her present teacher, Takeda Yoshinobu Shihan, 7th dan, and the top student of the late grandmaster Seigo Yamaguchi Shihan. Suzuki was first exposed to Yamaguchi Shihan’s style of Aikido through his student, William Gleason…