Okido Healing Arts & Yoga Immersion
with Fernando Montoto + friends

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Immersion Overview

The Okido Healing Arts & Yoga immersion offers a unique opportunity to experience and benefit from ancient Japanese healing arts that are rarely taught in the West.

  • improve your strength, flexibility and hara (core)

  • understand, diagnose and treat organ issues

  • learn relaxing Shiatsu routines to use on family & friends, or teach to your yoga students

  • improve flexibility in yoga poses using only tsubo points

  • gain experiential understanding of the body, mind & spirit as one interconnected unit

  • heal and strengthen your Earth element and Extraordinary vessels with yoga therapy

  • practise life-changing mindfulness exercises to develop gratitude and compassion

  • hear stories about life in Oki Sensei’s Mishima dojo in the 1980s

  • learn Okido precepts and philosophy

  • resources to download

  • and much more.

OKIDO YOGA is a complete system of self-development and health that revolutionised yoga. The late Masahiro Oki developed Okido in Mishima dojo, Japan. He developed Japanese yoga from a combination of Indian yoga, Chinese five element theory, the meridian system, Chinese Do-in, martial arts, Zen practices, Daoist philosophy, and Shinto practices. The culmination makes Okido yoga uniquely Japanese and a powerful healing practice. The yoga is especially healing and transformative if combined with the lifestyle and principles of a macrobiotic diet, which is based on primarily plant-based wholefoods that are seasonal, local and organic.

FERNANDO MONTOTO is a world-renowned yoga master and healer who trained with Masahiro Oki in 1983–1985 in Mishima dojo, Japan. Fernando also trained there with many other famous teachers, including Osamu Tatsumura and Isamu Mochizuki. Based in Brazil, Fernando introduced Okido yoga to Latin America and has taught for over 40 years internationally, regularly teaching in New York, Italy, Amsterdam, Japan and more. He authored the essential healing book, ‘Kanrenbui: Mystery of the Body’s Relationship’. Fernando has taught immersions previously in Australia and we are honoured to host him again for a deep immersion into the Japanese healing arts. Fernando is a true master of yoga and life — compassionate, warm, funny, grounded, steady and unflappable.

OTHER TEACHERS have contributed valuable sessions to this immersion — senior Australian teachers of Japanese yoga therapy, Lisa Masters, Alex Fortina and Adele Vincent (me). These teachers taught yoga therapy classes for the Earth element and Extraordinary vessels, relaxing Yoga nidra, and mindfulness practices. The contact details for Lisa and Alex are included in their sessions so that you can follow up with these teachers’ offerings if you wish. Lisa is an excellent teacher, Oriental medicine practitioner, and teacher trainer of yoga therapy and shiatsu. Alex is a superb teacher of yoga therapy and a highly regarded shiatsu practitioner. Subscribing to this immersion will give you full access to all my self-paced online courses.

Immersion Outline

Fernando Montoto’s teachings

Session 1 — Jokaho / Purification exercises to expand the chest

Session 2 — Hand healing techniques

Session 3 — Breathing exercises, partner exercises, foot shiatsu

Session 4 — Sanmitsu, Musashi technique, Kanrenbui to treat organs

Session 5 — Hokondo shiatsu for legs and back shiatsu

Session 6 — Improve asanas using kanrenbui relation points

Session 7 — Kiokaho / Animal movements

Session 8 — Kokoro and Okido philosophy lecture

Other teachings & resources

Study manual to download

Extra session 1 — Alex Fortina's Earth element hip opener class

Extra session 2 — Lisa Masters' Earth element class + class handout

Extra session 3 — Adele Vincent's Extraordinary vessel class + class handout

Extra session 4 — Yoga nidra 1 with Adele Vincent

Extra session 5 — Yoga nidra 2 with Adele Vincent

Extra session 6 — Yoga nidra 3 with Adele Vincent

Mindfulness practices for gratitude and compassion

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Unlimited access to the content library containing courses, classes and workshops for meridian yoga, meditation, healing and spiritual growth. All levels to suit complete beginner to advanced yogi. Over 130 unique classes to date and 6 in-depth courses including handouts, resources and home practices. Easy 2 clicks to cancel anytime. The classes you find most beneficial you can return to again and again.

  • 'Having gone on the most wonderful discovery trip (Meditation and Pranayama Course) for the last 12 weeks I feel about ready to start at square 1! It was a torrent of information and a smorgasboard of delightful practical experiences, all of which I need to spend time with to absorb and feel my way into.'

    Nancy

  • 'I loved ... learning with a teacher who is very knowledgeable and experienced in such a wide range of meditation styles, and who is open-minded about presenting the benefits of all styles. I love having well-thought out and well-presented notes. That enables deeper and more beneficial reflection because we have the material in our hands to go back to!'

    Currrent student

  • 'Adele is thoughtful, thorough, and genuine.'

    Susie

  • 'I loved the course. Thank you so much. I have not had a practice before and I am keen to start one and practice.'

    Current student

  • 'The course was set out to allow a steady buildup of understanding and a chance to experience a variety of meditations. There was an opportunity to transfer knowledge from one week to another.'

    Current student

  • '[After the Meditation course, I have] a much clearer understanding of the difference between mindfulness and meditation, the benefits of both, and the complementary nature of the two. A vastly expanded understanding of the range of practices that are called meditation, along with a realisation of what it is that makes them meditation.'

    Current student

  • 'As a complete beginner with little knowledge or understanding, this course provided the opportunity to listen, try and talk about various ways to meditate.'

    Susie A.

  • 'Perhaps we haven't yet discovered the particular form [of meditation] which will help us. Your course has enabled this to happen, Adele. That is a wonderful gift from you to us. Thank you.'

    Anon

  • 'I love having weekly mindfulness and higher emotions suggested to be aware of over the course of each week. I benefit from being asked to find instances of these things. eg, looking for things to be grateful for opens my mind to how blessed I am. It also helps me see the good and generosity in others.'

    Current student

  • The course has helped me realise that there are many ways of stilling my mind and finding deeper connection with others, and our world, and the life force that moves within all of us and this. Together we have been led through so many styles and I have had moments where I know that this particular style speaks to me. I now have the knowledge to go on and deepen my experience in these areas.'

    Nancy

  • 'The course has inspired me to do some form of dedicated meditation each day, in addition to my daily practice of asanas. The course has shown me that there is a way that I can learn to control my own energy. I found it all fascinating and helpful.

    Current student

  • 'Wonderful course. I know so much more than before and I have experienced things I never had before. Thank you.'

    Anon