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English Speakers in Yoga Therapist Association

You can experience our authentic yoga therapy.
Yoga Therapist Association is approved as Viniyoga Teaching School.

“Viniyoga” is the word in the fundamental yoga textbook, Yoga Sutras and it means the appropriate adaption of Yoga’s holistic wisdom such as Āsana-s, Prāṇāyāma, chanting, Mantra-s, and meditation to meet the needs of the individuals respecting differences in age, culture, religion, philosophy, occupation, physical, emotional and other health parameters that define each practitioner.

The English site of the representative director is here.

Akiko Miyahara
Representative director

Her interest was people’s mind peace, so getting a Master’s degree in Psychology, she worked at a consulting company for Human Resource department whose solution is focused on the relationship and motivation of workers.

After delivering her first daughter, she was amazingly healed from the unbalanced body & mind state by doing yoga asana definitely, so she decided to commit herself to becoming a full time yogini and yoga instructor.
Soon she started teaching at and gained trusts of some of most famous studios at Tokyo and was also in charge of jayachikitsa, healing program that needs even ayurvedic knowledge.

Further, she was led to start her own yoga salon at just front of the station of one of big and most sophisticated area in Tokyo. Then she taught so many student including celebrities, body trainers and so on.

After a few years later, she was pregnant with second daughter, and decided to move to more calm her hometown where is surrounded by mountain and sea and established the Yoga Therapist Association. She has been carrying out her own yoga instructor & therapist course and producing many talented yoga therapists in Japan.

She has been learning at KHYF which is the foundation of Krishnamacharya, the father of modern yoga, in India, and was given the star award and she is connected with her teacher, the grandson of Krishnamacharya like real family.

Her teaching includes anatomy aspects which can lead people fully safely and also real traditional vedic yoga and she can see the each person’s energy state.

 

Nana Ninomiya
General Director

She first met yoga by joining Akiko’s yoga class when she was one of mom-friends of Akiko. Since then, she has enjoyed yoga so much as she has truly believed what teacher Akiko taught and kept practicing it sincerely.

She had learned psychology and childcare before she started yoga practice, because she had been very interested in people’s mind both adult and child since she was young, but one day, she realized that yoga was the one which made people happy and healthy and that was the her path.

Through her experience, she has deeply believed that yoga has an authentic power of self-healing and decided to engage herself in yoga, ancient sacred wisdom.

After that, she has completed RYT200 teacher training course and learned Ayurveda philosophy & Ayurvedic cooking etc. and then started to share her yoga.

Now, she is firmly continuing her journey to herself and always feels and appreciates the sacred gift receiving from Yoga, Yoga sutra of Patanjali and Ayurveda.