5- Random Show with Aika Sato on Our Friendship, Comfort Women Research and Lockdown Catchup

05/07/20 • 41 min

"People say that prostitution is the oldest profession in the world, without realizing the fact that "pimping", or pimps who were living off the living of prostitutes are the oldest profession as well" - Aika Sato

During this pandemic lockdown, I got a chance to catch up with one of my best friends in university, Aika Sato in this random conversation. We touched on a few fun interesting facts about Aika and delved into her current research paper about comfort women. Aika is currently a Yenching Scholar in Peking University and an aspiring academia.

Previous Episode

4- Kaori Sasaki on Sivananda Yoga, Mantra, Peace Cultivation, Family & Ashram

"If you want to cultivate inner peace, try out yoga! " — Kaori Sasaki (Yoga Bindu)

Today in this very first interview episode, Sherab Jin speaks with Yoga Bindu, or Kaori Sasaki a Japanese yoga teacher with 20+ years of experience in the field, and who has done her training with Sivananda Yoga Ashrams in India as well as with Under The Light (UTL) Yoga Studio in Tokyo. She now teaches charity classes in the UTL yoga studio branch in Kuala Lumpur and fund raises money for education initiatives in Himalaya Rishikesh, India.

We discussed about mantra chanting, Sivananda Yoga style, life in ashrams, Kaori's family background, and some advice to the general people on cultivating peace or those who want to start yoga in their life!

Kaori has a beautiful voice to share! So please enjoy!

Next Episode

6- Alexis Charrier on Becoming a Shao Lin Martial Artist & Musician

"These days, I only practice something intensely for a maximum of 15 minutes, and then switch to something else, because I want to be fully focused." "When you practice really hard, the way will reveal itself to you." ~ Alexis Charrier

I have the honor of bringing my Shaolin brother Alexis Charrier on to the #EcoFlowPodcast, in which we reminisced about the past and discussed about our martial arts training routine, how he started learning Shaolin/Saolim kungfu & became a musician as well as his relationship with mentors like Master Ming Thong and his grandpa. I've also included a short singing performance by Alexis from 23:13 - 27:01
Song title: "Ordinary". The full podcast video interview can be watched on my YouTube channel.

Ps: We used #Shaolin & #Saolim interchangeable. " Sao Lim" is the southern min dialect pronunciation for Shaolin (standard Chinese mandarin)

Alexis Charrier's Full Bio:
Alexis is a French-Canadian Musician who has been training and teaching Shaolin martial arts in Canada and France for the past two decades since his days as a music student at McGill University. He first studied under Sifu Ong Ming Thong, a master of Shaolin, Taichi, Xingyi, and Baguazhang in Canada and later frequented Penang to learn from our common grandmaster late Sifu Png Chye Kim from Penang Sao Lim Athletic Association. Alexis has mastered all fundamentals of Saolim, including iron fist, iron shirt, and various forms of internal and external forms of martial arts. He is also a certified Acupuncturist from the College of Chinese Medicine London under Dr. Don Stevens and currently practices in his cooperative clinic Assistance Clinicale Thérapeutique (ACT16). Besides that, he actually works mainly as an international musician, touring the World and played with artists such as Corneille, Thandi Klaasen, El Hadji, and Karim Diouf, Martine St Clair, Thierry Arpino and has also composed music for Universal Pictures and Dreamworks video games such as Shrek 4 and Iron Man 2. Alexis loves to harness the power of music and art creation with a broad audience of fellow music lovers and passionate musicians alike.