Speakers

Toshie Okabe

BIO

Toshie Okabe was born in Tokyo, where, at the age of four, she began classical ballet training.
She encountered the Mitzvah Technique at a Tokyo workshop given by Amelia Itcush, a former dancer with the Toronto Dance Theatre. In 1987, Toshie moved to Canada to take the Mitzvah Technique Teacher Training Program run by the founder of the technique, M. Cohen-Nehemia. She continued to train with the National Ballet School of Canada and performed with the Ballet Jorgen.
Toshie works from her own studio in downtown Toronto teaching to a wide variety of students in private lessons and has taught group classes at institutions such as George Brown College, Ryerson Polytechnical University, and The University of Toronto. Toshie established the Japan Mitzvah Technique in 2002 and she spends every summer in Japan teaching individual and group lessons and training teachers.

Sessions

For people who sit all day – How to regain a healthy posture with the Mitzvah Technique

Sitting too much? Are you slouching?

Learn how to regain a healthy posture.

Anyone who spends much of their day hunched over a computer will benefit from this session.

Most of us are born with bodies that function well, but we learn unhealthy posture habits as we grow up. We...

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