November 7, 2025   What’s Happenin’ ●        NEW TIME – Yoga  on Sunday  is in person at the dojo and online at 4:00pm .  Please join Connie in this class. BTW, Sensei Jay’s wife is a regular in this class. Try it. ●        Teen Movie Night – November 8,   4:30 pm - 6:30 pm – Open to kids 10 and older. Sponsored by the ASNJ PTA. ●        Veteran’s Day – Tuesday November 11 – Join our 7:00 pm  class taught by ASNJ members who have served our country. ●        Wednesday Novembe

November 24, 2024   What’s Happenin’ ●        ASNJ is closed on  Thanksgiving Thursday, November 28 . Enjoy your day with families and...

A Lazy Man’s Guide to Aikido

When learning Aikido, we often begin as a sort of two person kata. 

June 21, 2024 What’s Happenin’ ●        Hakama class – Sunday, June 30, 11:00 am. A dojo meeting will follow. This is mandatory for all...

Remember that great scene from the movie “Big”

May 13, 2024 What’s Happenin’ ●       We added a Test Prep class on Saturdays, at 9:00 am. ●       Kids Testing Saturday June 1, 11:30...

May 6, 2024 What’s Happenin’ ●       Lehrman Shihan will resume teaching monthly classes at ASNJ on Wednesday, May 8, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm...

February 7, 2024 What’s Happenin’ ●       Dojo trip to NY Aikikai Saturday Feb 10.  Join us to take NJ Transit train together for the...

My Last Letter of 2023

(And why is it so important they named a city after it?)

Our mat! That’s who.

Yin and Yang July 25, 2023 What’s Happenin’ · No Tai Chi Chuan at 7:00 or Aikido Basics at 8:00 next Thursday August 3 due to...

July 11, 2023 Hi All, I am up in Maine writing this after spending two days cutting down a ½ acre of forest for a gazebo. It was on sale...

I created “The Wheel of Ukemi” class before tests

"After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body, you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend t

"We habitually think of the future as in front of us. We can see what is in front of us, so that is actually in our immediate past. Seeing

Why do people practice Aikido and Tai Chi Chuan?

Dojo is More than a Mat and Four Walls

January 25, 2022 What’s Happenin’ · Lehrman Shihan – Wednesday, February 8 at 7:00 pm. Lehrman Sensei teaches the second...