Satoko is a YogaJaya Baseworks Practice Teacher Training Graduate, certified intermediate Baseworks Tier 3 certified instructor, a certified Personal Trainer with the American Council on Exercise, and is a registered E-RYT with the Yoga Alliance.

Satoko’s natural interest in the arts spans contemporary art, sculpture, installations, and expressive arts. She spent a year at an interactive art school, coupling that interest with her love of activities that connect her to nature, such as swimming, cycling, farming, snowboarding, wakeboarding, and adventuring in wilderness. She sees nature as an inspiration to all creativity, simultaneously bringing us back to our basic instincts and binds all existence spiritually.

Her focused interest in spirituality has made a gradual and continuous ascent, starting from a few weeks’ stay in a Zen temple in Kyoto, bridging out to a 40-hour Yoga training course in Tokyo, to Vipassana in Australia, to previously completing an additiional 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training program in Bali with Vibrant Living Yoga.

Satoko is the CVO/Operations Manager of ParaImpacto/YogaJaya, enjoys her life as a constant explorer, a challenger of limits, and an experimenter in new domains. Her activities include facilitating on the YogaJaya Baseworks Practice Teacher Training, organizing courses that integrate yoga and expressive arts, and being the communication portal via interpretation, translation, interviewing and writing about visonaries. Read more about Satoko here.