Chairperson

Name: KIMURA Keishin 
Bachelor of Science

Education
Graduated from Tokyo University of Education and qualified as Bachelor of Science in 1969 Educated in Philosophy of religion at Kyoto University.
Educated in Yoga therapy at Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute in India Founded Japan Yoga Niketan in 1981 Received holy name (Jnana Yogi) by Swami Yogeshwaranand, being Raja Yoga Acharya, and started to teach Raja Yoga in Japan
Currently, engaged in wide variety of seminars, lectures, and Yoga trainings based on traditional Raja Yoga, Yoga Therapy, and Naikan.
From 1994, giving Yoga Therapy Instructors Course for Japanese Yoga Teachers in cooperation with Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation, Bangalore, INDIA

Designation

・Representative of Japan Yoga Niketan

・Chairperson of the board of directors of Japan Yoga Therapy Society

・Representative of Japan Vivekanada Yoga Kendra

・Member of the board of directors of Japan Ayurveda Society

・Instructor of Maternity Yoga Association in Japan

・Chief of Yonago Naikan Training Institute

Presentation

• Sep, 1994  Self-actualization  and Spirituality in Naikan (2nd Naikan International Conference, Wien, Austria ) 
• Sep, 1997 To see oneself (3rd and 4th Naikan International Conference, Italy )
• May, 1998 To integurate mind and body (21th Japan Naikan Conference)
• Oct, 1999 Organized new medical treatment taught by Shankara (21th Conference of Japan Ayurveda Society)
• Oct, 2001   QOL Spirituality in Yoga's point of view (23th Conference of Japan Ayurveda Society)
• Feb, 2002   The need of Yoga therapy in modern society "A Nationwide Training Program for Yoga Therapists in Japan (Shin-gu University, Seoul, KOREA)
• Mar, 2002   A Nationwide Training Program for Yoga Therapists in Japan（Houston University/Texas, USA）
• Jan, 2003  Yoga Therapy using Japanese Naikan Meditation for Psychosomatic Illness, a Self-Analysis Approach   (Global Holistic Health Summit Bangarol, INDIA）
• Aug, 2003  Yoga Therapy (1st Conference of Japan Yoga Therapy Society, Osaka, Japan
• Sep, 2003  Naikan and Spirituality （5th Naikan International Conference, Germany)
• Nov, 2004  Yoga Therapy as Psychoneuroimmunology    (26th Conference of Japan Ayurveda Society)
• Dec, 2004    Damages, Recovery and Life -Yoga: a Holistic Recovery for Mind and Body  (New Cross-over Project International Work-shop, University of Tokyo)
• Aug, 2008    Yoga Psychotherapy in Upanishad　（The Third International Conference of the  Asian Federation for Psychotherapy Tokyo, Japan )
• Oct, 2008 Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy (30th Conference of Japan Ayurveda Society)

 

Publications

Translation / Editorial supervision

・Science of Divinity / First Step to Higher Yoga / Science of bhagavadgida / Promotion of Health for All / A Call to Liberation/Maternity Yoga　/Baby Yoga / Ashtanga Yoga / Meditation / Yoga for Common Ailments / Yoga for Mother and Children

Joint work / Ayurveda ― Science of Life