Akiko Miyahara is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with an approved and active Registered Yoga School (RYS).
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the encounter
When I was a child, my mother gave me yoga videos set. When I think now, it's the start of my fate.
yoga for myself
I had many allergies, but the deeper my yoga practice has become, the better my allergies have become. And also, I've become much tough both phisically and mentally. I often think if I haven't met yoga, I couldn't been alive any more in many aspects.
the start of yoga instructor
After I graduated my university, I joined a human resources consulting company, but after giving birth to my daughter, I left and decided to refocus my energies on things even more fundamental.
the past career
After I had taught yoga at studios and so on, I opend my yoga salon "Expanse..yoga salon"(you can see the salon pictures at my photo gallary!) in front of Ebisu station at Tokyo. Now I moved to Yokosuka city and changed the name. My main activity is yoga instructor training, but four or fifth times in a month, I open the yoga classes, so if you want, please join us!
Another pfofile that "yogajaya" studio wrote for me before.
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Akiko-Miyahara/1283008813
the present career
The representative director of Yoga Therapist Association in Japan which offers many high quality yoga teacher and therapist training programs as an approved and active Registered Yoga School of Yoga Alliance.
The career of teaching yoga is about 17 years and good at leading very safely with the acquired knowledge of anatomy and traditional yoga techniques, so I can share yoga from young children to senior people including those who have some physical troubles or diseases like using chair or lying down style.
I hasve been learning from many yoga teachers all over the world beyond the style, but when I met the Krishnamacharya style yoga, who is called the father of modern yoga from his grandson and also great teacher, Dr. Kausthub Desikachar in India, I felt I was leaded by some great power. Before then, I hadn't been able to understand English much, but almost only the words which Dr. Kausthub uttered I was able to hear and understand. It was like a miracle for me and even more surprising on yoga teacher training in the school, I got the star award as an excellent yogini, evaluated by some professors of yoga of all over India. I really appreciates receiving truly historical and reliable wisdom of viniyoga tradition.
“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.
Viniyoga always talks to us, what do we really need now? Not only our bodies, not only our energy, not only our emotions or minds, not only our beliefs but whole ourselves need what?
And for the question, based on the holistic understanding of human beings and also through the meditative reflection, we can choose the movement which we need, the sound we want, and the breathing which saves us.
I was also invited as reliable yogini to Rajah Ayurveda Hospital which has more than 25 doctors who have graduated grad schools in Kerala and she and doctors there determined to collaborate to spread Ayurveda knowledge in Japan.