Live Your True Nature
自分の自然を生きる
Naoko Maeshiba
Somatic Architect
Personal Advisor
Naoko Maeshiba is a Somatic Architect and Personal Advisor. She works with people with physical and emotional chronic pain, helping them ease their pain, creating room for growth and empowerment.
At Live True Nature Studio, she has worked with a diverse range of people in age, occupation, and ethnicity with various conditions, alleviating their pain by activating brain’s neuroplasticity through deep awareness, dynamic alignment, imagination, and sensation work. Offering both remote and in-person sessions, she has been serving her clients in the US, Japan, and Europe since 2010, helping them restore ease in everyday functions and maximize their options and choices in life.
She enjoys writing both in English and Japanese and dancing very much. Her most recent curiosity is singing and ukulele.
Active Certifications and Degrees:
GCFP (Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner),CNC (Certified Nutritional Consultant), GAPS (gut and psychology syndrome) Practitioner, M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) in Theatre Arts
Professional Associations:
Feldenkrais Guild of North America - Member (2016-present)
American Association of Nutritional Consultant - Member (2018-present)
GAPS Practitioner (2019-present)
Towson University, Theatre Arts department – Professor Emerita
Experience:
2011-present
At Live True Nature Studio, working as a pain-relief facilitator and functional movement coach for the clients who have been suffering from various health conditions, promoting changes in their sensory-motor system through awareness training.
2018-2021
Worked at the Feldenkrais Foundation in NYC as a Feldenkrais practitioner
Taught movement classes at Michael Chekhov Acting Studio
2009-2019
Practiced GAPS training ~ becoming a practitioner
Started practicing GAPS protocol and continued it for seven years. Resonating with not only the diet itself but also the principles behind it, decided to pursue GAPS by becoming a practitioner
2002-2018
Towson University Theatre Arts department Professor
Director of a dance theatre company Naoko Maeshiba/Kibism
Worked as a movement specialist, choreographer, and performer at NYC and regional theatre companies and theatre schools.