ReadinessBy Midori SHINKAI

What's
Readiness?

Coping with life events, changes in your body,
we can be flexible and positive if we are with our own Readiness-lively movement in our body.
The way to respond should be a conscious choice rather than a preconceived choice.
That make you more happier and healthier.
Let's ready to move freely into your new possibilities.

• FACIAL WORK

  Since the facial muscles I work as "muscles on the front side of the head", they can greatly affect the relationship between the head and neck in the Alexander Technique.
  This facial work would be useful and powerful tools for many people who are interested in the strain of their eyes, clenching their teeth, and speaking.
  In addition, because facial expressions play an important role in communication, it's worth trying!

  
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  WALK/
  MOVEMENT

  Movement exercise lessons based on walking. From a habitual way of walking to a way of walking in which the whole body works in concert. It will be the base of a comfortable and lively way of being.

• SENSES

  Lessons that vividly awaken our innate senses change our perception of information.
  Go beyond your assumptions and meet yourself and the world newer.

  

• Alexander Technique

  F. M. Alexander (1869-1955)'s discovery activated our primary regulating control and enabled us to maximize our potential as Self.
  The Alexander Technique creates space between stimulus, thoughts and reactions that translate into physical tension.
  The space will make you temporarily inhibit the automatic and habitual ways of being and open up more free possibilities.
  And create the opportunity to re-select for yourself consciously what you want to do.
  Alexander Technique would be a daily lesson and a life lesson.

  

• Profile

  Midori SHINKAI is Senior Director of Alexander Alliance Japan, KYOTO, OSAKA.
  After graduating from Teachers College Columbia University with a master's degree in education and cultural anthropology in 1983. She taught at Kyoto Seika University as an English teacher using the Graded Directed Method.
  
  Together with Yuzuru Katagiri who had introduced Alexander for the first time in Japan and others, she created the dawn of the spread of the Alexander Technique in Japan. Founded KAPPA, the first Alexander Technique teacher training school in Japan, and graduated as one of the first students, selected as director of Alexander Alliance Japan.
  
  As an interpreter and teacher for teachers invited from overseas, she has gained a great deal of trust, and for many years has taught teacher training not only in Japan but also in Korea, Germany, and the United States.
  
  Midori has also continued to study SEITAI by Haruchika NOGUCHI from the late 1970s to the present day. She has unique work skills that integrate diverse approaches. She has been dedicating her life, passionate about education to meet the essence of what people are themselves.
  
  She lives in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, where Japan's first Alexander Technique teacher training school was born.

  ©Toshie Kusamoto
  Midori Shinkai
  
  

Pick Up Course

The choice to continue taking lessons for your transformation.
Since the Alexander Technique deals with becoming aware of the unconscious habits
of our minds and bodies that we are accustomed to,
we can say that continuous learning can bring about great change.
We have weekdays classes in KYOTO & weekends classes in OSAKA.
You can also take private lessons.

• Weekdays Classes & Private Lesson in KYOTO

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• Weekends Classes & Private Lesson in OSAKA

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Recommendations

• A trip into my body

  Each lesson is a trip into my body. I encounter my shoulders, arms, fingers, hips, legs, feet, neck, ears, eyes. Each encounter is a discovery. So much to learn about how my body - how I - function. At first, I forget most of it. Then, slowly I begin to remember: Subtle changes in my body. Subtle changes in my mind. Step by step. Wonderful.

  (Malte Jaspersen, professor of Media-Communication Studies KYOTO SANGYO University)

  
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  Her Facial work is original

  I love Midori! A generous, beautiful, gifted teacher! Such grace. I was very honored to teach her students, and to have learned from her too. Her facial work is original too.

  (Célia Jurdant, Singer, harpist, dancer, Alexander Technique Teacher Trainer)

  

• She is a master of the face and the movement of normal life

  She is a great teacher. Every time she came to Korea,,,, she shared wonderful times with us. She has a brilliant insight in teaching. She is a master of muscle anatomy, especially the face and the movement of normal life. If you want to use your body and mind efficiently, know how to lift up your face without surgery, and make movement without pain, you have to contact her.

  (Inni Kim, Alexander Technique Teacher)

  
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  Midori's hands are some of the best in the world!

  I have had the pleasure and honor of being a student, a colleague, and a friend of Midori Shinkai for nearly 30 years. I have been hosting Midori as an international teacher in my training programs throughout the USA and Europe. Her teaching is clear, direct, and imaginative. She is profoundly ‘student-centered’, using her skill as a pedagogue to meet each individual student wherever they are, and provide exactly what they need to make their next discovery.
  Among my favorite of Midori’s offerings, are her unique work with facials (like a manual face-lift); her ways of helping people of all ages and abilities with everyday movements, including walking, sitting, standing; and her work in helping people develop and deepen their sensory awareness, which has such a huge and direct impact on the quality of one’s life. I have also enjoyed and admired Midori’s ability to work with the whole person - not with some perceived issue or problem. She sees a person in their entirety, offering insights that allow a person to not only gain more skill and understanding around their questions, but also to see how it affects their life.
  I would enthusiastically recommend getting in Midori’s hands - they are some of the best in the world!

  (Robyn Avalon, the Director of the Contemporary Alexander School/Alexander Alliance USA, and Co-Director of the Alexander Alliance EU)