The following list are areas where students can participate in keeping the dojo running well. They serve an important aspect of training: dojo management. However, this aspect of training might better be viewed as training in mindfulness. If you’re not training yourself to be mindful and focused at every moment in every circumstance, you open yourself to the more abundant attacks in life such as accidents, arguments, stress, and sudden illnesses or injury
Floors
Clean the blue floors around the mat before every class.
Dojo Maintenance
Supply bathrooms with paper towels & tp
Empty Trash
Clean toilets
Gardening
Water dojo gardens
Freshen flowers on Shomen shrine
Water in fountain
Water front gardens
Air sweep rock garden by Shomen/Shrine
Weed peace pole garden
Sweep front porch
Check for soda bottles, food wrappers or doggie gifts
Recycling
Take plastics to recycling center for cash contribution to dojo
Publicity
Posters
Distribute
Call backs
Telephone messages
Absent members
WEB liason
Write reports for Musubi web site
Take photos for musubi web site
Help with Web page
Leading clean ups
Show up on time and manage clean ups
Yudansha - Leading a demonstration
Organize students and present Aikido to the audience gathered
The following list are areas where students can participate in keeping the dojo running well. They serve an important aspect of training: dojo management. However, this aspect of training might better be viewed as training in mindfulness. If you’re not training yourself to be mindful and focused at every moment in every circumstance, you open yourself to the more abundant attacks in life such as accidents, arguments, stress, and sudden illnesses or injury