Chief Instructor

Hilary Dawson Sensei

Dawson Sensei (yondan) has been training in Victoria for over 30 years. She has been teaching at UVic for most of that time, running classes for students and members of the UVic community interested in training aikido.

Assistant Instructors

Perry Plewes

Perry Sensei (sandan) took his first aikido course at UVic in 1984. Since then he has trained in Toronto and Japan. Perry returned to the UVic Aikido club in 1993.

Jason Verbitsky

Jason Sensei (nidan) has been training at UVic for twelve years. Before that he trained under Inaba Shihan in Calgary Alberta.