Dao Yin

Instructor: Shinichi Iova-Koga

Authorized Nei Gong Instructor with Lotus Nei Gong

Pressure and expansion opens the joints and spaces between the layers of the physical body, improving the efficiency of energy production. When the pathways of the body open, pathogenic qi can exit the body and healthy qi can circulate more efficiently.

This workshop will focus on Dao Yin forms that wind and unwind the tissues (fascia and muscles), focused on the torso, in order to maintain energetic and physical mobility.

To begin this process, the correct alignment of bones and the effective sinking of body mass allows the soft, connective tissues to change through appropriate stress.

Shinichi Iova-Koga serves as the Founder and Artistic Director of inkBoat. The dance theater company has received six San Francisco Izzie awards  and has toured in Europe, Asia and the USA.

A lifetime in the martial arts and his deep investigation into the Daoist internal arts deeply inform his concepts of body, energy and motion. He teaches Qi Gong, Dao Yin, Yang Sheng Gong and Nei Gong. His credentials to teach come through Lotus Nei Gong International and Wudang West. He holds a 2nd degree black belt in Aikido (with teachers Jan Nevelius, Jorma Lily and Cornelius Jaeger-Herzog). He trained in Judo under his father, Yuzo Koga, a 6-time USA Judo champion.

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