Hikaru Hashimoto has been practicing yoga since the age of twenty-three. In order to promote yoga widely in Japan, he established the Japan Fitness Yoga Association in 1993, where he has developed programs based on Dharma Yoga and Hatha Yoga.

The association has trained hundreds of instructors and currently is in charge of more than 700 fitness yoga classes in Japan. Japanese Shinto Yoga incorporates Hatha Yoga practices as well as the various exercises of Japanese Shinto, Japan’s great ancient wisdom.