Rio Ikeda

Qualifications

Yoga Alliance certified RYT500

Hawaii SUP Yoga Association certified SUP Yoga Teacher

English Yoga Teacher

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What I teach

Building a healthy body (a balanced, beautiful body)

Steadiness of mind (less stress, better concentration, greater self-acceptance)

Building beautiful posture

Easing complaints such as stiff shoulders and lower back pain

Work

Teaching yoga and dance in studios (from young children to adults)

Choreography assistant for artists' and idols' live shows, music videos, commercials and stage productions

Proposing and teaching yoga as rehabilitation at orthopaedic clinics and care facilities

Holding events such as park yoga

Education

Japan Women's College of Physical Education, Department of Dance

I began classical ballet at the age of three and, majoring in dance at the Japan Women's College of Physical Education, studied dance widely — jazz dance above all, along with contemporary, modern, tap, Japanese classical and Spanish dance. Drawing on those experiences, I have also worked as a choreography assistant for artists' and idols' live shows, music videos, commercials and stage productions. And while pursuing a body that could dance, I met yoga, became deeply interested in the connection between body and heart, and went on to gain a range of qualifications.

What yoga taught me — the ease and the richness of accepting yourself as you are, and the pleasure of moving the body — is what I want to pass on to everyone.

Regardless of gender or age, I share ways of bringing a natural, healthy heart and body into daily life.

Through three months of study in Hawaii, I learned to move from a life of "I have to" towards a life that realises "I want to".

From there I acted still more honestly on my own "I want to!", and I now live in Australia.

In my lessons, for those who feel

I want to know what I wish for and act on it honestly,

but I can't quite find the courage…

I don't even know what it is I want to do

I support women in facing their own heart and body through yoga,

so that they can build the finest life

with their own hands.

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