About Makiko

Founder
Makiko Oka

Natural Healing & Life Style Consultant

Movement & Posture Specialist

Master Energy Healer

 

Makiko was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She grew up in a traditional Japanese musician’s family. She was strictly taught to focus on good posture and how to strive for balance in her life. She has been using what she learned to observe, help and communicate with people.

  In 1990, she moved to NYC and joined the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance to perform with the company.  In 1996, she started to teach Pilates, but then she realized its limitations as a treatment for some of her clients. So she derived her own style of specialized Pilates for pain management.  In 1997, she established her own Dance Company, 舞 Mai Dance Project and performed throughout the US and Japan.

Her Makiko-Style Pilates gradually evolved into Makiko Method – Posture Balance.
(Click for Development of Makiko Method)

 

Degrees:

MA in Dance Education from NYU

BA in Drama Study from Nihon University

 

Certifications and Skills:

Body: Pilates, Gyrotonic Expansion System, Feldenkrais Method, Cranio-Sacral Therapy,
Food Therapy,  Japanese Hari (Japanese style acupuncture without needles),

Mind: Hypnosis (NHG, NLP and Ericksonian hypnosis), Regression Therapy (present and past life through an energy healing)

Spirit: Reiki (Master), Vision Reiki (Founder), Intuitive Healing, Inner Vision Healing, Energy Clearing & Healing (a bad Qi/Chi clearing), Meditation

 

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