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Yoga — Nearly Twenty Years of Practice, and a Summary of Forty-Five Days of Training
Introduction It has been nearly twenty years since I started yoga. At first it was one class a week, part of a gym membership. From […] -
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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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Why Do Breathing Methods Change “the State of the Body” — Pranayama and Modern Respiratory Physiology
Yoga × Rolfing Five-Part Series · Part 5 Introduction In Parts 1 through 4 of this series, the meeting points of yoga and Rolfing were […] -
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Why Does Ujjayi Breathing Reach “the Depths of the Body” — the Dynamics of Structure Seen from Tonic Function and Breathing Methods
Yoga × Rolfing Five-Part Series | Part 2 | First draft: May 2025. Updated 2026. Introduction “The harder I try to deepen the breath, the […] -
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Why Does “the Sensation of the Body” Not Change Even After Continuing Yoga — Reading It Through Body Schema, Body Image, and Phenomenology
Yoga × Rolfing Five-Part Series | Part 1 | First draft: May 2025. Updated 2026. Introduction Why does ‘the same sensation’ keep repeating, even after […] -
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Yoga Group Class ─ Body–Mind Integration
Introduction Today, I’d like to introduce my regularly held Yoga Group Class (4–6 participants per session). This class is not merely about stretching or light exercise […] -
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Yoga Seen Through Rolfing — Where to Begin When Taking a Pose
How Rolfing Came to Interest Me Since June 2015, I have offered Rolfing sessions in Shibuya, Ebisu, and Daikanyama. Rolfing is a method in which […] -
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Untangling a Body That Won’t Let Go — What Yoga Was Missing
This is the first of three pieces in the Letting Go of Tension series. The series was written during Phase II of the Rolfing Basic […] -
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How I Found Rolfing — Searching for a Way to Deepen the Postures
Seven years have passed since I first encountered Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, one of the many traditions within yoga (for that story, see “How I Found […]