Dojocho Amanda Charrier began training in 1996.  She initially met Manaka Sensei at the first Jinenkan seminar, which was held in the spring of 1997.  Impressed with the attention to detail and respect given to proper fundamental movements, she shortly thereafter joined the Jinenkan.  

 

She took two trips to Japan to train with Manaka Sensei in the years prior to his announcement that he would be moving to America to live and teach for a time.  She was extremely fortunate to already be living in Baltimore when Manaka Sensei announced that Baltimore was the very city he had chosen to make his home for the duration of his time spent living in America.  So from April of 2001 to May of 2004 she had the great fortune to live less than 10 miles from the Honbu dojo and Manaka Sensei.  Since Manaka Sensei has returned to Japan she has traveled there again to train with him, as well as to locations around America and Europe when he teaches abroad.

 

She received her dojocho license in March of 2004, just two months before Manaka Sensei returned to Japan.