$33 YRH Members / $44 Non Members

In this workshop , Coco will share her rich teaching experience with all levels of students to approach back-bending postures and transitions safely and bravely.

Coco will provide modifications for students of all levels to connect and challenge. She will use familiar basic back-bending poses while also working towards some intensive but fun backbends as well.

Coco discovered yoga during a time when she was working as a business professional in Tokyo. The discovery completely changed her life. Risking everything she’d worked for up to that point, she gave up her career to pursue a life devoted to the practice and teaching yoga. After several, single-minded years of study and practice, Coco completed her 500-hour RYT Yoga Alliance training and certification in 2008. This opened doors for Coco to mentor under important figures in Yoga. She studied Ashtanga under Ken Harakuma of IYC Tokyo and Richard Freeman in Boulder, Colorado. In Raleigh, she trained under and assisted for David Keil. Later, after training in Mysore, India , she joined Rusty Well’s Bhakti Flow advanced intensive Yoga Training. Finally, she completed her E_RYT 500- credentials that she has actively maintained ever since. Coco has led 6 RYT 200 and 3 RYT 300 courses, but still regards herself as a lifelong student. She is committed to being a teacher with integrity, constantly improving herself, her teaching, and the lives of others. Coco’s wealth of experience, travel, and knowledge all manifest in the ways that she develops the inner strength and energy of her students.

Coco is trilingual in English, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.