ANUPAMA YUKO MATSUDA (she/her/hers)
E-RYT 200/RYT 500, RPYT, Bodywork, yoga and fitness English-Japanese translator
Yuko studies yoga with Baba Hari Dass in Mount Madonna Center and taught yoga for 8 years in Tokyo, Japan before she moved to Etna, Calif. US. She provides yoga workshops and teacher trainings internationally.
YUKO YOGA in Etna, CA with Yuko's motto “Nurturing Life” offers a wide range of yoga classes including; Hatha and Vinyasa style, restorative, Pre-natal, Thai Yoga Stretch, and Yoga for youth. You’ll learn traditional yoga breathing exercise, called Pranayama, yoga poses, and meditation techniques in her class. Students appreciate her detail instruction, and practical teachings.
Yuko loves arts, wildlife, hiking, hot springs, forest bathing, ballet, making tofu and roasting and blending tea.
Yuko also provides services as Yoga & Bodywork Interpreter and translator. She has assisted yoga teacher trainings, massase trainings, and workshop and translated yoga teaching materials, DVD and books in the fitness field.
アヌパマ・マツダユウコ
2004年にババ・ハリ・ダス師のもとでヨガを学びはじめ、南関東エリアで8年間、ヨガクラスやティーチャートレーニングの指導をしました。その後アメリカ カリフォルニア州に移住して、ノマド式YUKO YOGA in Etna, CAにて「人生を豊かに」とモットーに、ハタヨガ、ヴィンヤサスタイル、リストラティブ、マタニティー、タイヨガストレッチ、未成年者向け学校でヨガなどを提供しています。
クラスでは、伝統的なヨガのスタイルを継承した呼吸法、アーサナ（ポーズ）、瞑想を練習します。日常生活にも役立てられるヨガ哲学をベースにした指導と丁寧な指導方法に定評があります。
アート、動物たち、ハイキング、温泉、バレエ、お豆腐作り、お茶を淹れる、ほうじ茶を作るのが趣味。
ヨガ指導のほか、ヨガ＆ボディーワーク通訳翻訳者として、英語で行われるヨガティーチャートレーニングや、マッサージトレーニング、ワークショップの通訳、トレーニングマニュアルやフィットネス関連のDVDや本の翻訳をしています。
STYLE
Hatha (Trauma-informed, Adaptive)
CERTIFICATIONS
Yoga Teacher Training: Mount Madonna Center (CA, USA)
Pre-natal Yoga Teacher Training: Salt Springs Centre of Yoga (BC, Canada), Japan Maternity Yoga Association (Tokyo, Japan)
Kripalu Yoga: Stage 1-3 (Tokyo, Japan)
Kids Yoga: Yoga Ed. (Tokyo, Japan)
Ayurveda Abhyanga Massage and Marma Point Massage: Lotus Holistic Health Institute (CA, USA)
Thai Massage: Wat Po (Thai Bangkok)
My Vinyasa Practice (Austin, TX)
HER TEACHERS
Baba Hari Dass-ji
Kamalesh Ginger Hooven, Cynthia Ambika Copple, Kashi Richardson, Dr. Vasant Lad, Eoin Finn, Louisa Sears, Lucy Roberts, Emil Wendel, Brynne Caleda, Michelle Young, Cyndi Lee
PUBLICITY
Magazine House “Jane” 2010 Winter Issue, Men’s non・no, FRAU, BRUTAS, TV-TOKYO Morning Show
TRANSLATION WORKS
List of major Yoga & Bodywork translation:
- Sarah Powers, Yin Yoga Teacher Training and Yin Yoga DVD
- Cyndi Lee, OM yoga Teacher Training – vinyasa and restorative, and Tokyo Yoga magazine interview with Cyndi Lee in YJ San Francisco Conference
- Shiva Lea, DVDs: Power Yoga, Fluid Power, Prenatal Yoga
- Ray Long, “Anatomy for Hip Openers and Forward Bends: Yoga Mat Companion 2”
- Brynne Caleda, Yoga Ed. teacher training, Curriculums and DVD
- Mary Helen Bowers, Ballet Beauty DVDs
- David Newman: Kirtan workshop
- Louisa Sear, Yoga Arts Teacher Training in Japan and India
- Eoin Finn, Blissology yoga training and workshop
- Insiya Finn, Ayurveda workshop
- Lucy Roberts, Vinyasa and Five Rhythm workshop
- Yoga Works® teacher training
Yuko Matsuda is currently registered with Yoga Alliance as a RYT, which means that they completed their yoga teacher training at an active RYS.