The cold wind still reaches deep into the body in winter. Clear light. Pale blue skies — the kind that gently wake your eyes. Japan received me like this. Between shopping malls and familiar meals, there were also quiet moments — stepping into a shrine, pausing, breathing. The country I returned to felt both modern and ancient, moving quickly and standing still at the same time. For a long time, I kept my distance from this place. I needed that space to return to "be." Now I

As we approach the end of 2025, I’ve been feeling how quickly this year has moved. Many people around me are going through their final moments of shedding in November... that uncomfortable but necessary period of release. Letting go can feel painful, even disorienting, yet it’s often the doorway into becoming someone we never imagined we could be. If you’re in that space now, please know your feelings are valid. There is no “should” in how you move, feel, or grow. This year

Good or bad, everything happens for a reason. If you had lots of joy, let’s celebrate. If you had lots of sadness, let’s be compassionate with yourself. If you had lots of anger, let’s transform that into actions. If you had lots of worries, let’s focus on here & now. Everything and anything that we experience is for us to grow and to understand oneself. Sometimes it is difficult to see it this way. In that case, let’s experience that hardship from the bottom of the heart. Le

When we experience something very painful, we tend to push away that subject, reject and dismiss from our memories. When we reject and dismiss, the painful event will haunt us like a ghost without us noticing as it is buried in our subconscious mind. We want to be free from them yet we are attached to them even more strongly. The only way for us to be freed from this is to acknowledge and to honour the experience and eventually to embrace the whole thing with love. Love is th

What are the benefit of sound therapy? That is often a question I receive from the participants. There are many benefits that are both tangible and intangible and science can only reveal a few things about the sound therapy. Some scientific research indicates that relaxing sound (music and nature sound) relaxes the mind and autonomic nervous system is back to the baseline (where people are at the neutral state) and thus many clinical therapies today incorporate relaxing music

What we don't see does not mean it does not exist I love watching and reading scientific findings because whatever I learn in yoga and other energy modalities are now scientifically “proven” and that fascinates me. You might look at me strangely by me saying this but many of the scientific findings today had been taught in yoga for thousands of years. Whenever I see this scientific new “discovery,” I am a little proud of yogis who have discovered these only with their own b

What does body pain mean? Often, when some clients tell me that they have this pain and that pain, I secretly think “that is wonderful.” I know that the pain itself is uncomfortable and that makes us miserable in many ways. However, we are actually catching the messages and signs from our body as a form of “pain” and it is a good sign. Many of us have passed this point where we can feel the pain as "pain." We become “numb” with all kinds of “pains” and that is a little bit m