Mr. Keishin Kimura

President

Mr. Keishin Kimura graduated from the Tokyo University of Education in 1969. Educated in Philosophy of Religion at Kyoto University.

He founded Yoga Niketan Japan in Tokyo in 1981, around the time when he was learning Yoga in Rishikesh, India. He is educated in Yoga therapy at Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute in India. Received holy name (Jnana Yogi) by Swami Yogeshwaranand, being Raja Yoga Acharya, and started to teach Raja Yoga in Japan.

Currently, he is engaged in a wide variety of seminars, lectures, and Yoga training 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, Bengaluru.

• 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