Sawai Atsuhiro is a Japanese

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Early life and career

Sensei was born in 1939 in

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. He met

Nakamura Tempu was a Japanese martial arts, Japanese martial artist and founder of Japanese yoga. He was the first to bring yoga to Japan and founded his own art called , and taught it at Tempu-Kai that he established. Biography Early life and family backg ...

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in the 1950s, eventually becoming one of his students and obtaining the highest teaching credential in

Shinshin-tōitsu-dō was founded by Nakamura Tempu and is also known as Japanese Yoga. It is a study of the principles of nature and how they can be refined to help us realize the truths of nature and our full potentials. History Nakamura Tempu created his Japanese ...

, a form of Japanese

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and

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. Nakamura Sensei is regarded as the father of yogic meditation in Japan, where his teachings are studied by people from every walk in life. Sawai Sensei was a full professor of English at

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. He became Professor Emeritus of English in 2004. Since his retirement he has had several top-selling books on Nakamura Tempu Sensei's teachings published in Japan. In addition, he is the leader of the Tenpu Juku in

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, and he is the President of the Kokusai Nihon Yoga Renmei (International Japanese Yoga Association) that promotes instruction in Shinshin-tōitsu-dō around the world. The IJYA has members in over 20 nations, and it is a

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. Sawai Sensei is a lecturer/seminar leader, and ''The True Paths to Meditation'' is his first book written specifically for

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readers. Its stated goal is to help the reader discover a way of living rooted in health and harmony via meditation. He is, in addition, a regular contributor to the ''IJYA Journal'', writing about the forms of meditation created by his teacher Nakamura Tempu Sensei.

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