Michiko Minegishi is a Japanese yoga instructor and the owner/director of Body & Mind Yoga. She conducts regular yoga classes/workshops and seminars nationally and internationally. Her teaching career started in 1984 when she started teaching exercising, dancing, and performing arts at various fitness clubs. After teaching for over two decades, she shifted her focus to teaching more therapeutic styles of exercise and hatha/vinyasa styles of yoga.  With her believe that “Yoga is for everyone”, teaching children and seniors with physical disabilities has been Michiko’s life work.  She has been giving yoga lessons to the candidate athletes for the Paralympics Games of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Her publications include the exercise book “Shoulder Blade Stretch” (2013) and essay book “To the Future with Smiles” (2011) which portraits her passion to bring smiles to the disabled children.