About Izumi Sato
Izumi in California, USA
Izumi Sato is a lifelong adventurer and yoga practitioner who delights in sharing happiness and freedom with others. She is committed to empowering her students to discover their potential and grow through their own experiences. By exploring the body, mind, and heart, She helps cultivate the courage and strength to fully embrace and express joy and love.
Her extensive background in classical dance and music in India, combined with her MA in Dance Education from the University of Hawaii and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Kyoto, Japan, makes her deeply practiced in her offerings.
With over 20 years of experience in performing and teaching dance, Izumi specializes in the energetic arts of mudra (hand) gestures, the flow of movement and stillness, and creating a nonjudgmental space for exploring the body-mind-heart connection. Her yogic journey began in 2000 at a conference near the sacred waters of Himachal Pradesh, India. In 2013, she began teaching yoga, offering flow-based classes that range from gentle to power, and creating meditative experiences for everyone. Her respect and gratitude go to her yoga teachers like Mojdeh Zahra Zahiraleslamzadeh, Jennifer Prugh, Noel Clark, Tias Little, Ricahrd Freeman, Mary Taylor, Jai Uttal and more.
Her deep devotion and extensive research into the Ramayana led her to contribute as a choreographer for Mount Madonna’s Ramayana production, where she has been teaching Bharatanatyam since 2018. Izumi brings her passion to various communities across the United States, visiting schools and juvenile detention centers to educate and empower children to embrace and celebrate differences. She believes that by planting seeds of appreciation for all world cultures and people, we can cultivate a harmonious world that celebrates our interconnection.
Izumi supports Tibetan Children Education Foundation.
Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 500
E-RYT 500 with
11 years / 3500+ hours of teaching yoga.
Offering Group classes at Breathe Together Yoga, 49ers Fit, Visa, and Apple.
Izumi's Journey
Hawaii, USA
Connecting with students, developing curriculums for teaching at university and lesson plans for Shakuntala theater at high school, training students for the public performance as she taught Bharatanatyam at the University of Hawaii, Manoa where she earned a Master degree in dance focused on education with her Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship.
India
Dedication and focus on studying Bharatanatyam, a classical dance, expression of heart, mind, and body as an offering to the divines let her live in India for 7 years. She is grateful for the bliss and love of her guru, Padma Bhushan Saroja Vaidyanathan, and for the support and scholarship from the Indian government.
She also had a focused interest in researching Ramayana in India and around Asia.
Japan
Izumi's heart connects to her home in Shizuoka where she grew up with a nature-loving and liberal family near the foot of Mount Fuji and in Kyoto where she erupted her curiosity for learning about people in various cultures around the world, Cultural Anthropology during her undergraduate study.
Feel free to contact me with any questions, inquiries, and to learn more about yoga retreat, online class, private and group class.
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