Naho Owada

The very first time I did yoga was in 2001 on Moreton Island near Brisbane in Australia. It was outside by t he sea and I still remember that experience; I felt great and I loved doing yoga from that moment onwards. I discovered Ashtanga yoga in 2005 and I knew this was the yoga for me.

I finished an Ashtanga yoga teachers training at IYC in Tokyo with Ken Harakuma in 2006 and the same year I finished a Vinyasa yoga teachers training with Basia Lipska. In 2008 I took chanting classes with Govinda Kai. And I continued to practice with Tarik Thami.

From 2006 I took many yoga workshops in Japan and I also interpreted yoga workshops from English in Tokyo until 2009. Through these wonderful experiences, I am grateful to have met
many great teachers. Yoga is self practice but I believe that without great teachers and their teaching we wouldn't be able to truly learn the art of Yoga.

Since I was a child I have had many food allergies so my health journey started about the same time as the yoga. I studied Macrobiotics, Raw food, Aryuveda and I did an 8 day fasting course in Thailand. It was natural as Yoga is the practice of finding balance in life. Our senses are constantly influenced by the outside world and yoga practice helps me to bring back the focus within myself and build awareness. I also think that yoga helps us to rediscover our true abilities which we already have inside ourselves.

I arrived in Paris 2009 at the end of September. In 2010 I took teachers training with Linda and Gerald; it shifted my perspective of yoga and I am so grateful to be able to share Ashtanga yoga with others.