Teachers
Yoga teacher
Living in California, U.S.A., she has been teaching yoga all over the world for many years. She has been teaching yoga around the world for many years. She is a graduate of Iyengar Ashtanga Advanced (4th series), and has also introduced the 5ht series, and appears regularly on the Healing Quest TV show and in Yoga Journal Magazine. At Monte Nido Eating Disorder Center, she developed a yoga program for women struggling with anorexia and overeating. She teaches private and group classes in Malibu, California, and conducts Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga workshops throughout the United States. She is an internationally respected yoga instructor who has taught in Asian countries for many years.
Singer-songwriter
Born in California to a musical family (her father was a Grammy-winning pianist), Donna made her debut as a singer at the age of eight. Her beautiful voice was highly acclaimed as a top recording singer, and from the age of 22, she was a backup singer on Madonna's world tour for 20 years, performing in films and other productions. In 1993, she released her first solo album, which included the single “Playing for Love,” which became a No. 1 hit in Japan. In 2020, she released a single with Berenda Carlyle for SAT SIRI and YogaGivesBack, and all proceeds were donated through YGB. In 2023, she released the healing music “In the Twilight of Life” with Japanese artist GLAY TAKURO.
Yoga teacher
She is the president of BMY Yoga Studio. its founding in 2001, BMY has been at the root of Japan's yoga boom. As Minegishi's home, BMY's classes are a treasure trove of the essence of what she has built and continues to strive to offer for the benefit of all people. With over 40 years of teaching experience, she has developed an unlimited number of teaching techniques that have been described as “Minegishi Magic” and continue to cause positive changes in people's bodies and minds. She has been invited to many conferences abroad, and her wealth of experience in the field is a factor in the creation of many of the Minegishi Methods.
Yoga teacher
He runs the Osaka Spirit Yoga Studio and 6HAWAS. Based in Japan, he travels the world giving yoga and meditation classes, workshops, retreats, and training courses. For the past 20 years, he has met and taught many people from all over the world to bring positive change and improve their quality of life. Since 2000, he has also conducted retreats in India and taught thousands of people at yoga classes, workshops, retreats, and large-scale yoga events in Japan and other countries. He has also directed yoga teacher trainings that have produced more than 2,500 yoga teachers. In 2007, he opened Spirit Yoga Studio in Osaka, the first yoga school certified by the Yoga Alliance for 200 and 500 hour classes, and in 2022, he opened a new type of yoga studio, “Private Yoga Studio,” which offers online and real-time yoga instruction. In 2022, he launched a new type of yoga studio, 6HAWAS, a private yoga academy that offers online and real-time instruction.
Yoga teacher
President of Radhika Yoga Hayama. He has been a speaker at many yoga events in Japan and abroad, events sponsored by ministries and agencies, and yoga lessons broadcast live from India by a medical association. He has appeared in yoga magazines and women's magazines, as well as on TV and as a radio personality, and has been featured in numerous media outlets. He has also started a joint project with street dancers, DJs, and musicians to fuse street culture and traditional yoga, and has supervised the curriculum at YMC and trained approximately 2,000 instructors. He is the founder of “Otoko Yoga,” a men-only yoga program. Currently, he teaches yoga for the mind and heart based on the 5,000 year-old Indian traditional yoga teachings and meditation including yoga philosophy.
Yoga teacher/
Aromatherapist
She is the main instructor at “radhika Yoga” in Hayama. She also gives yoga lessons mainly in Tokyo and Kanagawa. She also teaches yoga classes in Tokyo and Kanagawa, and has been teaching beach yoga in Kamakura and Hayama, and garden yoga using the beautiful environment of gardens. She is in charge of various self-organized classes. She gives special yoga lessons at various companies and teaches a restorative yoga teacher training course at YMC Medical Trainers School.
Singing bowl therapist/
Mindfulness Instructor
She offers yoga, mindfulness, and bowl sessions to comfortably refresh and prepare the body and mind for tomorrow. She also offers yoga classes at yoga studios and temples in Tokyo, as well as in Karuizawa. She also offers wellness programs such as corporate training and retreats for city dwellers to feel the healing power of nature.
Electronic musician/
Music producer
He is a musician who organically combines field recordings, bioelectrical signals from water, plants, and fungi, various ethnic music, and electronic sounds. His representative works include the yoga music album “Light on Yoga Nada” and “ The Healing Breath” with Akira Watamoto, President of the Yoga Meditation Association of Japan. He has also produced the album “Soul Songs” for Daphne Tse, a world-renowned Kirtan singer. He is the founder of “Niceness music”.
Vocalist/
Multi-instrumentalist
He lives and works in San Francisco. Vocalist, tabla player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and record producer. His innovative albums, “Svara Mandala,” “Echosystem,” and “Dub Mantra,” have been acclaimed by critics. He is well known among yoga practitioners and has performed at numerous yoga workshops, events, and festivals.
yoga teacher/
Meditation teacher
While working for a trading company, she first encountered Ashtanga Yoga and began practicing yoga. Studied yoga under Kaori Yaochi and Ken Harakuma, and later gave yoga classes in Tokyo. In 2016, she moved with her family to the western foot of Yatsugatake in search of a “truly rich life” after the 3.11 disaster. Currently, she is active in various places, mainly at the southwestern foot of Yatsugatake.
Certified Yoga Teacher, Government of India/
Spirit Dancer/
Reiki Healer
She has been active as a facilitator and Reiki healer at festivals and retreats abroad, including the Bali Spilit Festival. In 2020, she moved to Mexico, and from 2023, she started to live in Yatsugatake, Japan, where she is in charge of organizing retreats. She continues her journey of spiritual exploration, exploring the possibilities of physical expression without being bound by established dance codes.
Yoga stick instructor
（assistant）
I am happy to share with you the happiness of safe and comfortable outside yoga, with good posture, deep breathing, and receiving the life energy (prana) of Mother Nature to lighten your mind and body. Convenient and comfortable modern lifestyle is the cause of bad posture, shallow breathing, and unwellness such as rolled shoulders, stiff shoulders, and 50 shoulders. Yoga stick and shoulder blade yoga techniques are dramatic! Before and after, it will lead you to your good posture that you should be in. Join us, open your chest to the sky and fill your heart chakra with lots of prana. I offer basic yoga stick courses, outside yoga teacher training, and outside yoga events.
Shinsou Temple, Zen Buddhist Monk
He open a solemn and peaceful space that only a temple can offer to those who are busy with their daily lives. In 2016, he started “Tsuki no Kai” so that people can stop, face themselves, and adjust their minds and bodies away from the daily routine. His wife, Yoko, organizes events such as zazen, sutra copying, temple yoga, vegetarian cooking, and crystal bowls.
Representative of Yoga Gives Back
In 2007, she founded Yoga Gives Back (YGB), a non-profit organization in Los Angeles to express our gratiutde for yoga, by giving back to India, the birthplace of yoga. Now in its 17th year, YGB directly supports over 3,000 women and children in India through micro-loans and educational programs, partnering with local NGO (non governmental organizations) in Karnataka and West Bengal. YGB is supported by 150 Ambassadros and yoga communities in more than 30 countries.