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How to Choose Continuing Education — Four Things I Look At Before Signing Up
Once you are certified, what you study is yours to decide. In Rolfing, the Advanced Training requires eighteen credits. Which courses fill them is not […] -
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Continuing Education After Rolfing Certification — The 18-Credit Framework and a Map of the Teachers
Introduction Certification is not the end of the training. To go on to the Advanced Training, you need eighteen credits of continuing education. One day […] -
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Beyond the Practice of Yoga — The Process of “Awareness” Deepened by Two Approaches｜Part 2: How Is the “Field” Created?
Introduction — “How Is the Field Created?” On August 16, 2026, I took part in Toshiro Miura’s workshop, Beyond the Practice of Yoga — The […] -
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Beyond the Practice of Yoga — The Process of “Awareness” Deepened by Two Approaches｜Part 1: Meeting Toshiro Miura, Kripalu Yoga Teacher
Introduction On August 16, 2026, after a long interval, I took part in a yoga workshop led by Toshiro Miura — known to everyone as […] -
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Mind, Body, and Knowledge — What Made the Rolfing Basic Training Interesting as an Education
Reading Eleven Years of Articles In preparation for a major revision of this Rolfing website, scheduled to go live at the end of August 2026, […] -
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Two Years of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu — On Distance, and on Learning with the Body
Introduction Brazilian jiu-jitsu practice began in May 2024. At the ARTA Hiroo, starting once a week, the habit has now settled at three times a […] -
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The Buddha Who Came Down from the Mountain — From the Shinnyo-dō Exhibition, on Bodies Carved to Be Walked Around
Introduction On Tuesday, August 4, 2026, I was able to see the special exhibition “Treasures of Shinnyo-dō, Kyoto” at the Mitsui Memorial Museum in Nihonbashi, […] -
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The Legs That Held a Country Together — Couriers (Hikyaku), Shugendō, and Two Japanese Ways of Walking
A note for readers outside Japan: the sources cited at the end are all Japanese-language publications, and none of them exists in English translation. The […] -
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The History of Painting and the Body (3) — The Body Drawn as Line (Part Two): A Vanished Temple, and What Stays in Memory
A note for readers outside Japan: this is the second half of a two-part article. Titles of works follow the Nara National Museum’s official English […] -
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The History of Painting and the Body (3) — The Body Drawn as Line (Part One): Buddhist Painting, and Chōmyō of the Nara Ateliers
A note for readers outside Japan: the Nara National Museum provides an English-language page for this exhibition, and the titles of works used here follow […]
