Yoga Fest Tokyo 2006: Govinda Kai Reports In
Mae and Govinda
In mid-September, Govinda Kai and Mae Yoshikawa taught at Yoga Fest Tokyo 2006.
Govinda - who it appears has been very busy - sent us a quick note about it.
Photos were from the 4th annual Tokyo Yoga Fest held in September of each year. This year was September 17-19. The conference is growing in stature with students coming to the event from all over Japan. The event is held at the Akasaka Prince hotel in Tokyo and uses the entire conference room building (6 floors of conference space). The largest classes hold over 250 students. A joyful event!
Mae’s class
You could follow Philippe’s lead and use the Wayback Machine to calculate how much Ashtanga has grown in Japan.
Instead, I’ll be happy just seeing Govinda’s photos of all these enthusiastic Ashtangis in Japan. Govinda published two photo sets on Flickr form Yoga Fest Tokyo 2006:
- Govinda and Mae, Yoga Fest, Tokyo, Japan September 2006, and
- Mae’s Yoga Fest Class, September 2006.
Basia Lipska also taught at the event.
Thank you, Govinda!
Upward Dog, Mae & Govinda’s Class
Grateful Student with Govinda
Happy Ashtangis waiting for instruction
AshtangaNews » Practicing Mysore-Style Ashtanga in Tokyo - Ashtanga Yoga Matters (as taught by Sri K Pattabhi Jois) said,
August 22, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
[...] I was fortunate to travel to Tokyo recently, and as I always do when visiting far away lands, I went to try out the Mysore-Style studios there. Let me add that I love Japan, having lived there for two years before I had discovered Ashtanga Yoga. After reading on AshtangaNews.com about how popular this style of yoga had become there (here, here and here), I was eager to see for myself. [...]