Ki-Aikido was established in 1974 by Koichi Tohei. Ki-Aikido has been influenced by, among other, Zen-Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism and Yoga. In 1978 Ki-Aikido was introduced to Sweden and to Göteborg in 1989. In Sweden there are around ten Ki-Aikido clubs, in Europe maybe around a hundred and in the world several hundred. There are regular local and international Ki-Aikido camps in which students have opportunity to meet Ki-Aikido practitioners from different places and nations.

The "real" name of Ki-Aikido is Shin-Shin Toitsu Aikido which is Japanese for Aikido with mind and body unified/coordinated. Ki-Aikido was developed from Aikido which was created from mainly different jujutsu- and sword schools by Morihei Ueshiba (known as O-sensei, meaning great teacher, among Aikido students) during mainly the 1930's -40's and -50's.