Following an example set by her parents, who made their home a center for social contact and interaction, Satoko became a skilled communicator in childhood and was at ease performing in front of others from an early age. Her teenage years in Kenya in particular had a great influence on her decision to study International Policy in University, followed by a Masters Degree in Developmental Studies in England. She then moved into the communications profession, building a career in the advertising industry with six years of work as a strategic planner while simultaneously studying advanced marketing at a school of business management.

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 completing a 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training program in Bali with Vibrant Living Yoga. Satoko’s ever-deepening encounter with yoga has profoundly changed her life in ways most unexpected, yet all simply a reflection of her most deeply rooted desires and intentions.

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 International Intensive Teacher Training, organizing courses that integrate yoga and expressive arts, and being the communication portal via interpretation, translation, interviewing and writing about visonaries.

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