Otava Piha taught an invigorating class showing some of her style of Aikido from Finland. Otava is a Sandan who trains in two dojos in Helsinki as well as with Patricia Hendricks here in the Bay Area at ASL.

She recently submitted her PhD dissertation (she is in the law faculty) in Finland. She then presented her research at a conference in Vancouver before coming to the Bay Area to train at ASL.

Otava spent a large part of her childhood in Brussels where her dad was working and then attended university at Cambridge.