About
A practice in two voices
桜井 葵 · Tokyo, Japan
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Recognitions受賞・実績
across performance, practice, and press.公演、実践、メディア掲載を通して。
How it beganはじまり
From a small room in Tokyo, 2012.2012年、東京の小さな部屋から。
What is now a teaching and performing practice started in a borrowed room above a bookshop in 2012 — six students on borrowed mats, a piano in the corner, a single rule that practice would always begin where forcing ended. The room has grown, the rule has not changed.現在の指導と表現の活動は、2012年に書店の上の小さな借りた部屋で始まりました。借り物のマットで集まった六人の生徒、隅にあったピアノ、そして「強いることが終わるところから実践は始まる」というひとつの約束。場所は広がりましたが、その約束は今も変わっていません。
Six students. One room. One promise.六人の生徒、ひとつの部屋、ひとつの約束。
Practice begins
where forcing ends.
Aoi began her journey in classical voice at the age of nine and discovered hatha yoga while studying jazz composition in New York. Today she teaches and performs across Tokyo, weaving breathwork into her vocal phrasing and a musical sensitivity into every class she leads.
Both practices are, for her, the same question asked in different rooms: how do we listen well, and how do we respond with care?
She lives in Minato-ku with two cats, a small upright piano, and an opinionated kettle.
Three foundations
Breath
Pranayama as the foundation — for the asana, for the song, for the day ahead.
Presence
Slow, intentional movement and phrasing. Nothing rushed, nothing decorative.
Lineage
Trained in classical Hatha (Sivananda) and the Great American Songbook. Both traditions, carried lightly.
Training & lineage
- RYT-500 Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor
- 1,750 hours of training, Sivananda lineage
- BA Jazz Performance — Conservatory program
- 12 years performing across Tokyo, NYC, and Seoul
- Featured artist, Blue Note Tokyo (placeholder)
Recognition受賞・実績
A quiet record of trust.信頼の、静かな積み重ね。
2024
RYT-500 awardedRYT-500 認定取得
Yoga Alliance · advanced certificationヨガアライアンス・上級認定
2023
Tokyo Jazz Quarterly · featuredTokyo Jazz Quarterly 掲載
Year-end live review年末ライブ批評
2022
Blue Note Tokyo · two-night runBlue Note Tokyo 2夜公演
Sold-out residency完売公演
2018
Hatha lineage · 1,750 hrハタヨガ系譜・1,750時間
Sivananda traditionシヴァナンダ伝統
2014
Conservatory · jazz performance音楽大学・ジャズ専攻卒
BA · NYC学士・ニューヨーク
“A rare voice — quiet, deliberate, and arresting. She makes the room lean forward.”
“Her classes feel less like a workout and more like coming home to your own breath.”