Nelson NZ – Soul Awakening Reading, Channeling & Healing, Goddess Wisdom, Tantra Yoga, Transformational Retreat with MINAMI TAKASHIMA

Minami Takashima

Soul Awakening Healer, Spiritual Life Coach, Hatha yoga and Tantra Teacher.

ABOUT

Hi I’m Minami. Soul Awakening Healer, Spiritual Life Coach, Hatha yoga and Tantra Teacher.

Originally from Sapporo, Japan, since 2021 I’ve resided in Nelson, New Zealand.

My spiritual journey started quietly and naturally, woven into life through the not-so-serious Buddhism practice and seasonal Shinto events like any other non-religious Japanese people. I’ve never considered myself religious, and still don’t.

Growing up, I spent some time overseas via exchange programs; high school in Australia, and university in Hawaii. Each event impacted me and broke my cultural default patterning, making me mouldable and open.

I started yoga practice around that time, at the end of teenage years. It stuck with me very well, and I have been practicing ever since.

It was my mother who introduced me to Kikō energy healing, before Uni graduation when I was loading myself up with job interviews around 2011. I was suspicious of energy healing at the time, which I thought wouldn’t help my life in an actual way. Despite my doubts, I felt everything. Every time I ate food I would feel the energy moving in the body, I would start to develop so-called 6th sense, noticing things I had no obvious way of knowing.

But just like many other young Japanese woman, I started working for a company – I was working in the advertisement industry for about 6 years.

During those corporate years, around 2017, I encountered a book called Yoga of Heart by Mark Whitwell, which felt like a healing waterfall upon me.

By 2019, I quit my soul consuming corporate world and travelled to Thailand, Bali and India, completing Hatha Yoga Teacher Training (Pilibhit, Northern India), and Heart of Yoga Advanced Teacher Training under Mark Whitewell (Ubud, Bali).

In 2020, I moved to New Zealand, although I was stuck in my lovely second hometown Woolgoolga, Australia for 10 months due to the coronavirus. I was surrounded by my oldest friends, and invested all my time in studying and teaching yoga and healing. This time away from home truly shaped the core of what I now share.

Over the next few years, I have offered and lead a One-on-one Hatha Yoga and Tantra Teacher Training Course (12-month) from Nelson New Zealand, in person and online, as well as holding many private healing sessions, group classes and workshops.

People I’ve worked with have varied in age, cultural background and occupations / conditions – a psychologist, yoga teacher, terminal-care-nurse, doctor, designer, DJ, vet, architect, healer, builder, winemakers, creative writers, ex-military, accountant, single mom, teacher, some were struggling with bipolar, ADHD, depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, numbness, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, addiction, suicidal thoughts and so on. A few studied through my homestay retreat – both long and short term.

Everyone begins with coarse awareness, but as the training and journey deepens, their refined energy shines and washes not only their own but the world’s karmic heaviness. My past students / clients are now thriving – successfully “graduated” from their toxic work, marriage or social patterns, have started sharing their gift through healing work, yoga and beyond. This transformational work is like a radical operation – we cut out the tumor / pain creating egoic hands, so we can work with / as the divine itself.

In 2023, established the now-annual Okinawa Retreat, as well as lead the Heart of Yoga Japan Tour with Mark Whitwell and Rosalind Atkinson. These seem to have struck and touched so many souls.

Although it was not a new thing, I started working with gods and spirits more intensely in 2024. My shamanic training had officially begun.
Deities would come to me day and night, to completely transform, prepare, and power up with a new energetic skills and missions.

This opened me to a new chapter of healing work. Now my work is focused within Soul Reading, Awakening and Healing, serving healing practitioners and spiritual teachers, as well as any aspiring soul beings who need healing and guidance.

I am truly grateful for gods, Buddhas and spirits from all around the world/universe who helped to equip me to now work alongside with them. To serve the great harmony.
Especially with the taniwha, dragon gods of Japan and Aotearoa / New Zealand, through water, fire and the land for greater activations and shifts.

I hope to serve you in any way.