I started to practice yoga in 2009 when I heard that my friend was going to try yoga, and I followed her. At that time, I was working my body so hard as a performer, so the only perpose that I do yoga was to stretch my body, and took classes once or twice a week lazily.

After experimenting my practice for a while, I met Jivamukti Yoga by chance when I was in New York in earnest in 2010. The first time I took it, I couldn't help saying "What was that?". I was very shocked what I received at the class, and realized that "I should keep doing this.". From then, my yoga journey as a Jivamukti Yoga practioner started, and I've been coming to go to the center every day.

After returning to Japan, I took RYT200 vinyasa teacher training in Japan and received workshops from famous teachers. But all motivated by the desire to learn more about yoga was for Jivamukti Yoga. I just wanted to be as a good practioner by practicing Jivamukti Yoga and really loved to practice from amazing teachers all over the world. I was sure I will be better than ever through this method, and already had a strong commitment for continuing it.

Thanks to an offer from my colleagues that I was working at gym in early 20's, I began to teach yoga there. I had no idea that I would do but students were very happy to take it from me than I expected, and I ended up teaching several classes with very popular at that time.

I was based in Kyoto to make living after moving from Mie prefecture, and still continued to teach dance, aerobic exercise, trampoline training and swimming that I'm good at. Interestrngly, my all teaching skills were so much better than before due to keep practicing Jivamukti Yoga, it's like refinement of my all life through practice, it derived wisdom for mature activities I already had. Everything flowed better than ever by getting the knowledge for integration.

It was inevitable that I took 300h Jivamukti Yoga teacher training after about 7 years of practicing in Costa Rica 2017, progressed to take JTAP program in Barcelona 2021, and became 800h Advacnced Certified Teacher in Berlin 2022.
Since then, I'm still be present to be blessed all things, and really appreciate them I've received in this life time.

The reason I love practicing and sharing Jivamukti Yoga is that because it is a method of perseption where people from various backgrounds can work together toward the same goal of yoga with aspirations. Jivamukti Yoga has five important tenets which are Ahimsa (non-violence), Bhakti (devotion), Dhyana (meditation), Nada (sound) and Shastra (scripture). I've met many Jivamukti Yoga practitioners all over the world, but everyone has a different point of view in them, and takes care of them in a different way.

If you have been practicing yoga for many years, you tend to become biased toward only one particular practice, such as only asana, only meditation, or only kirtan. Jivamukti Yoga covers all the important practices of yoga in a well-balanced way, and is open-minded enough to respect the individual path for practioners.

I'm really grateful to have this core, integrated, and like-minded community where I can deepen my yoga practice, and trying to share this beautiful, compassionate path with many people .