About

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Between Worlds


Most of my adult life has been lived between cultures.

After twenty-three years in the United Kingdom, I returned to Japan, where I am now based.

Along the way, I worked across education, the arts, tourism, fashion, advertising, electronics, and the nonprofit sector.

My role was often the same:

between people.

between organisations.

between different ways of seeing the world.

As a translator, executive assistant, and educator, I spent many years observing how people learn, adapt, connect, and change.

The Question


One question stayed with me throughout.

How do people and organisations thrive?

What allows human potential to emerge?

Why do some environments foster growth, while others diminish it?

That question eventually led me toward the exploration of the body, awareness, and somatic approaches.

Somatic Clarity


Somatic Clarity emerged from that continuing exploration.

Over time, I realised that clarity is not something that can be given.

It cannot be found in advice, formulas, or someone else’s answers.

What I repeatedly witnessed was something much simpler.

When people learn to recognise what is happening, to listen more deeply, and to reconnect with their own sense of orientation,
change often follows naturally.

Somatic Clarity is a practice built around that observation.

A practice of recognition, recalibration, and discernment.

Waypoints


2024– Present — Naming the Compass
Launching Somatic Clarity and beginning the Hoshirio podcast with long-time friend and psychologist Fernando Estrella.

2021– Present — Returning Home
Returning to Japan after twenty-three years in the United Kingdom.

2015– Present — Taking the Work Further
Serving as an external therapist with Sanoviv Medical Institute in Mexico.

2014 — Before Somatic Clarity
Beginning private client sessions.

2013 — Discovering the Body
Training with Dr. Bradley Nelson and becoming certified in Emotion Code® and Body Code®.
In August, I gave my first practitioner interview.
Looking back, it feels like one of the first waypoints on the path that would eventually become Somatic Clarity.

2003– — Living Between Worlds
Working across education, arts, translation, executive support, and nonprofit organisations in the United Kingdom.

2000 — A Different Lens
Completing a Master’s degree at Goldsmiths, University of London.

1998 — Leaving One Shore
Moving from Japan to the United Kingdom.