Mid-Summer Seminar with Lewis Bernaldo de Quiros - St Bees, Cumbria, UK

Name: Mid-Summer Seminar with Lewis Bernaldo de Quiros - St Bees, Cumbria, UK
Start: 2025-06-20T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-22T15:00:00+01:00
Location: St Bees School

Schedule

Fri, 20 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sun, 22 Jun, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

St Bees School | Whitehaven, EN

⭕ WELCOME:
Welcome to the registration form for the weekend of 21st and 22nd June 2025 seminar (with also Friday 20th night class) in St Bees, West Cumbria, UK that will be instructed by Sensei Lewis Bernaldo de Quiros, 7th Dan Aikikai and direct student of Morihiro Saito Sensei. We hope that this will be a fun event where you can learn and develop your Aikido skills and meet old and new friends.
Note - for the weekend we have 180 square meters of mat space (in addition to a significant indoor and outdoor areas) and have set participant capacity at 60. Places will be allocated on a first come basis so please register promptly if you can.
⭕ SCHEDULE:
Friday 20th June (The Memorial Hall):
- Session 1 - 19:00-21:00 - Sensei de Quirós
Saturday 21st June (The Main Sports Hall):
- Session 2 – 12:00–14:00 - Sensei de Quirós
- Session 3 – 15:00–17:00 - Sensei de Quirós
Sunday 22nd June (The Main Sports Hall):
- Session 4 – 10:00–12:00 - Sensei de Quirós
- Session 5 – 13:00–15:00 - Sensei de Quirós

⭕ VENUE / ACCOMODATION / MEAL:
St Bees School, Wood Lane, St Bees, Cumbria, CA27 0DS (https://www.stbeesschool.co.uk/).
St Bees School is a co-educational independent school located in the West Cumbrian village of St Bees that was founded in 1583 by the then Archbishop of Canterbury Edmund Grindal as a boys' "free grammar school". St Bees School has been home to West Cumbria Aikido since February 2019 and this will be our fifth national level seminar.
St Bees is a charming West Cumbrian coastal village situated just south of Whitehaven, about 50 miles south from Carlisle and is a good base for exploring the western side of the Lake District and the Cumbrian coast.
There are plenty of accommodation options in St Bees village and the nearby area:
https://www.stbees.org.uk/home/visitors/accommodation/
https://www.booking.com/
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/
https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/cumbria/whitehaven.html
For local camping / tourer / holiday chalet opportunities in St Bees see - https://seacote.com/seacote-park/
If you require advice on accommodation or travel options please contact Adrian via email at [email protected]
The seminar meal will be on Saturday night (21st June) at 19:00 for 19:30 and will be held at the Rum Story in the center of Whitehaven (https://www.rumstory.co.uk/). We have engaged caterers to provide a healthy and hearty meal choice with meat and vegetarian options with ‘something sweet’ to follow. If you have specific dietary concerns, please get in touch. The evening will include a rum cocktail (or non-alcoholic equivalent) on arrival and rum tasting afterwards. There will also be a pay-as-you-go bar with local bottle beers, wines and spirits.
⭕INSTRUCTOR:
The weekend seminar will be led by Sensei Lewis Bernaldo de Quirós, 7th Dan Aikikai and Technical Director of Traditional Aikido Europe (TAE).
Sensei de Quirós trained full-time under the late Morihiro Saito Sensei (9th Dan) from 1986 until 1993 in the Iwama Dojo in Japan. Prior to beginning his training in Aikido, he trained for 10 years in both Judo and Karate (Shotokan Karate under the late Keinosuke Enoeda Sensei 9th Dan in London). During his stay in Japan, he also practiced Kyudo (Traditional Japanese Archery), Japanese calligraphy and Zen.
Since returning from Japan, he has taught Aikido on a full time basis and to date has conducted well over 350 international seminars. After returning from Japan he maintained regular contact with his teacher through seminars both as a participant as well as assistant and translator until his passing away in 2002.
Lewis received the rank of 5th Dan Aikikai from Morihiro Saito Sensei in 1999 and 6th Dan Aikikai from Doshu Moriteru Ueshiba (Hombu Dojo Tokyo) in 2009. In 2024 he was awarded the rank of 7th Dan Aikikai.
He is the Senior Instructor and Examiner on behalf of Hombu Dojo of a European network of Dojos (TAE) committed to developing, researching and transmitting the style of Aikido known as Takemusu Aikido (Iwama Aikido) which was transmitted directly to Morihiro Saito Sensei from the Founder of Aikido Morihei Ueshiba during his more than 23-years as a direct student at the Founder’s Dojo in Iwama Japan.
⭕ MORE INFO:
See www.westcumbriaaikido.com or find us on Facebook - WEST CUMBRIAN AIKIDO
Local organiser: Adrian Punt: [email protected]
⭕ REGISTRATION:
See: https://forms.gle/5NfheNTKHWeTG5vN7

⭕ FEE:
We are maintaining the same seminar fees and hence the 2025 fees are:
- Friday only (2-hr) - £20 (Concession rate of £15)
- Saturday only (4-hr) - £40 (Concession rate of £30)
- Sunday only (4-hr) - £40 (Concession rate of £30)
- Saturday and Sunday together (8-hr) - £75 (Concession rate of £60)
- Friday, Saturday and Sunday together - £90 (Concession rate of £75)
Note concessions are available for juniors / students, retired and unwaged as detailed above.

A cold buffet lunch can be ordered for each day (£10 per day per person). The seminar meal on the Saturday costs £35 per person.

All monies (training fees, lunch and Saturday dinner) are payable in advance and payment should be made by Friday 16th May 2025. Any cancellations made on or before Friday 30th May will be refunded in full. We will try and refund cancellations after this, if for instance we can fill your place, but cannot guarantee this.
Please pay by bank transfer to:
West Cumbria Aikido (business account)
National WestMinster Branch PLC (NatWest), Whitehaven Branch
Sort Code: 01-09-54
Account: 60826355
IBAN: GB74NWBK01095460826355
BIC: NWBKGB2L
SEPA credit transfer and direct debit and B2B international payments are supported.
Please use the reference LBQ-25 in your transfer and indicate your name.
In Aiki 🙏
Adrian and Jason - co-dojo chos, West Cumbria Aikido