◾️Interpreter
Midori Tamate(Midori)

Born and living in Sapporo, Japan, Midori enjoys playing a role as a bridge between Japanese locals and foreign visitors.
Midori has practiced with Taka Hosoe for many years and is greatly influenced by his teaching style, mixing vinyasa, Dharma Yoga and esoteric meditation. Having received certification to teach Hatha Raja Vinyasa Yoga in 2012, she passionately shares her study with students.
Midori is happy to dedicate her energy and ability to share the teachings of the great Yoga Masters.
Kayo Kurihara (Kayito) / Assistant Interpreter

After graduating from high school, she moved to the U.S., which had always been a dream of hers.
While studying social work at a university in Massachusetts, she learned about the existence of children suffering from poverty all over the world.
She later became involved in supporting children in developing countries, working at a gypsy orphanage in Romania, a
street children’s home in Burkina Faso, disaster-stricken areas in Asia, and conflict-affected areas.
After getting married to a man who has worked as a community development worker, she spent 15 years in Latin America with him and their children.
It was in Paraguay that she first encountered yoga.
In Colombia, she met her life teacher,Andrei Ram, who introduced her to the “true yoga” that she had never known before, and she found herself teaching yoga herself.
After returning to Japan in 2024, she continues to offer online class to student in Colombia and classes at yoga studios in Kanto area.
Mother of two.
Instagram kayo.yoga
◾️Assistant/Organizer
Keisuke Sakakibara(Nun)
He met Andrei Ram in 2008,
and he participated in Darma Mittra’s 200 hours teacher training which Andrei Ram served as a head teacher.
His life changed rapidly since then.
He runs “spaceWANI,” a community-based yoga studio in Kobe, aiming to create a place for comprehensive learning about yoga and other aspects of body, mind, and life, and a place where diverse things can connect.Since the 2020 Corona Disaster, he has continued to express yoga through YouTube.
He is teaching yoga in a variety of ways, and he is trying to make local communities which enable a sustainable and biodiversity world.
HP nunyoga.com
Yuki Nango(Youki)

Yuki started practicing yoga since 2016 in Chicago, USA.
In June 2018, she enrolled to the Sri Dharma Mittra’s LOAY 200-Hour Teacher Training in 2018 in NY.
After returning to Japan, she met Andrei Ram and began supporting Andrei’s Japan Tour while furthering her yoga practice. After a while, she also began teaching yoga and she feels blessed to be able to pass on these beautiful powers of yoga.
In December 2021, she moved to Nagano, Japan.
Currently, she runs “Azumino Yuu-Yuu” and teaches yoga and art of living.
Nagisa Kurokawa(Nagi)

Yoga teacher and yoga studio management
In her 20s, she experienced various jobs such as a sales clerk at a department store and an accounting clerk at a company. In 2015, she began practicing yoga to strengthen her own mind and body, which the more she worked, the more out of shape she became.
In 2019, she met Nun and began to study yoga even more deeply.
In 2021, she began working as a staff member at the yoga studio “space wani”. Currently, she is in charge of studio management as a director.
In 2022, she participated in Andre’s training for the first time and gradually began to support his tours to Japan as a staff member.
She is involved in the planning and management of various yoga events and retreats, while continuing her own yoga studies.
Her family is a rice farmer, and she loves rice and sake, and her work related to sake is increasing.