Aya Manabe is a Japanese Yoga teacher registered in Yoga Alliance (E-RYT500) residing in New Delhi, India since 2013. She is the Director of India & Japan at Namah Shivaya Yoga, International School of Yoga & Meditation. Aya earned Bharat Ratna Mother Teresa Gold Medal Award, Bharat Ratna Indra Gandhi Gold Medal Award in the field of Education and Yoga respectively.
Aya’s career marks an impressive graph. Having worked in the corporate sector in leading Japanese Multi National companies for many years, her work field expanded to new horizons and spread to Tokyo, Paris and India. Discovering her true passion, Aya started on and continued on her spiritual journey. She served in Yoga Ashrams for many months in order to establish her own intensive and holistic practice of Yoga, and
proceeded to teach yoga to multinational students as Karma Yoga (seva). Finally she moved to India in 2013.
Aya’s journey involves spreading the light of Yoga to Japan and Asia, from its origin which is India.
Her secret is to make the beauty and wisdom of yoga more easily available to people through different methods of learning, like for instance, publication of information and other media methods, as she feels yoga knowledge is still limited in these countries.
She is offering yoga training that goes much beyond ordinary curriculums. She trains people to not just become yoga teachers, but also brings about ‘inner transformation.
She sincerely practices yoga with the belief that every single act is ‘yoga’ and yoga is a powerful tool to purify our heart and make ourselves grow. Her vision is to bring Yoga as a science in the mainstream of education field that deals with healing body, mind, and emotions and nurturing the soul.
earned a Bachelor of Law from Osaka University and Master of Science in Yoga from the prestigious SVYASA University in Bengaluru India. This experience of studying slokas, Bhagavad Gita, and other sciences of Yoga with hundreds of Indian yogis from Indian teachers has became her true asset and inspiration.
To add to all this is the fact that she is married to a dedicated ‘yogi’ and has an two years old daughter.