Showing posts with label Kayoko Mitsumatsu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kayoko Mitsumatsu. Show all posts
Kayoko Mitsumatsu: Former NHK Producer and Founder of Yoga Gives Back on Voices of Japan Podcast with Burke & Ben!
Kayoko Mitsumatsu joins Ben and Burke to share her experiences working as a producer and director at NHK (Japan's national broadcaster) and at the Embassy of Japan in London, and to also share the very encouraging and inspirational story behind the mission of Yoga Gives Back. It is a non-profit organization that Kayoko founded in 2007 that has mobilized the global yoga community to empower over 1400 women and children in India by helping them build sustainable livelihoods through micro loans coordinated by representatives in 30 countries. Apart from those topics, we also discuss some challenges within Japanese society, such as poverty, the country's relatively high suicide rate, and the scarcity of therapy and counseling.
Weekly podcast episodes with half-Japanese/half-American Burke (18 years in Japan) and Ben from England (13 years in Japan) and their guests.
Filmmaker David Lynch Picked to Receive Yoga-Inspired Namaste Award
More than 200 yogis are expected at the posh Malibu fundraiser.
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There's an award ceremony for pretty much every walk of life in Los Angeles — even yogis.
Filmmaker David Lynch will receive the Namaste Award at Yoga Gives Back's 5th annual gala fundraiser, titled "Thank You Mother India," scheduled for Sept. 25 in Malibu. According to the organization, the bronze trophy simply "recognizes those who serve others." Lynch will be only the second recipient of the prize, following in the footsteps of previous honoree Malika Chopra, daughter of Deepak Chopra.
Lynch, best known for Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway and Blue Velvet, is being lauded for his "noble and humanitarian efforts" through his David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, which makes transcendental meditation accessible to children and adults all over the world. (Lynch has been practicing TM since 1973 and has been a vocal advocate of the practice in the decades since.)
YGB Founder Kayoko Mitsumatsu said in a statement: “While it’s common for many to perceive yoga as a physical exercise, the ultimate goal of the practice of yoga is to unite with the Divine Self—and meditation plays an important role in achieving this. ‘Namaste,’ which means ‘the divinity in me salutes the divinity in you’ in Sanskrit, symbolizes Yoga Gives Back’s mission, which is to help others, and is the inspiration for the Namaste Award.”
More than 200 guests from the local yoga community are expected to attend the event at the Pacific Coast Highway estate of philanthropist Amarjit Marwah. Oh, and the invites promise "a generous gift bag" to go with the $200 tickets.
Read more at the Hollywood Reporter
Two incredibly inspiring women meet.
Mallika Chopra, author of "Living with Intent" will be presented with YGB's first-ever Namaste Award at the Yoga Gives Back Malibu Fundraiser for her contribution to various humanitarian causes as well as her dedication to share meditation, yoga tradition, to awake ourselves and to make this planet a better place.
Rina Tham's "Lucky Number 9" is the Title Sponsor of this event. Rina's life journey as a rubber tapper's daughter in the jungle of Malaysia will inspire many youths in the world and she plans to donate her books to YGB's fund recipient youths in India.
NHK Team Creates inspiring Documentary celebrating the life and Legacy of Helen Keller
Top Notch Film Crew From Japan Comes to Massachusetts to Find the Story of the True Helen Keller
August 10, 2010 – A team from NHK Japan Public Broadcasting Corporation has spent a good deal of this summer in the US creating two documentary programs to celebrate the life and legacy of Helen Keller during her 130th birthday year. The crew (L-R sound engineer Masaki, renowned videographer Yukio, stateside producer Kayoko Mitsumatsu, and director Miwa) filmed students and educators at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA, to capture modern day methods of educating children who, like Helen Keller, are deafblind. Keller’s famous “Miracle Worker” teacher Annie Sullivan was a graduate of Perkins, and brought Keller to Boston to study at the school in the late 1800’s.A 90-minute Helen Keller documentary special profiles her life, dispelling myths and depicting her true self. Interviews capturing Perkins students and an alumnus seek to reveal "contemporary Helen Kellers" working toward their highest potential for independent living.
In a 30-minute educational documentary, NHK will focus on comparing deafblind education and lifestyle in Japan versus the US. Practices and policies in Japan lag behind the US, since deafblindness is not yet recognized as an independent disability there. Mitsumatsu and her colleagues hope to enlighten viewers about the potential and the possibilities when people who are deafblind are included in society.
The crew from Japan NHK were guided in their exploration of deafblind education by Perkins School for the Blind professionals such as Assistant Director of Education Services Martha Majors (seated, center) who has worked on the Perkins campus and educated teachers around the world for more than 30 years. (standing L-R Yukio, Miwa, Kayoko Mitsumatsu, Masaki)Perkins School for the Blind, the nation’s first school for the visually impaired, provides education and services to help build productive, meaningful lives for 115,000 children and adults who are blind, deafblind, including those with additional disabilities in the U.S. and 64 countries worldwide. Founded in 1829, Perkins pursues this mission on campus, in the community and around the world. Learn more online at www.Perkins.org
Photos courtesy of Perkins School for the Blind
CONTACT: Marilyn Rea Beyer, Media & Public Relations Director Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA Tel: 617-972-7478 Cell: 617-513-5569 marilynrea.beyer@Perkins.org
NHK CONTACT: Kayoko Mitsumatsu, Associate Producer NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, USA Tel:310-991-9599 Fax:323-932-1220
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