Yoshitaka Koda lives in Kyoto, Japan. He was certified as a Rolfer in 1987 by the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute in Boulder, Colorado, USA. By 1993, he completed advanced training with The Guild for Structural Integration and in 1996, with the Dr. Ida Rolf institute. In 2008 he was certified as a Feldenkrais practitioner. Yoshi lived in the USA from 1984 to 1989 during which time he discovered Continuum with Gael Rosewood, Emilie Conrad, and Susan Harper.

For  30 years Yoshi has been instrumental in bringing international teachers to Japan. In 2000 he named his office "Chronic-Students" and since then organized workshops in the fields of somatics, psychology, energetic healing, osteopathy, including Structural Integration and Continuum. The Continuum teachers he has brought to Japan include Susan Harper, Gael Rosewood, Amber Elizabeth Lynn Gray, Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz and Linda Rabin. Yoshi is the translator for all of the workshops he organizes and was the official translator for the Japanese Feldenkrais training program.  

In 2015 Yoshi was authorized as a Continuum Movement teacher by Continuum Movement, Inc. In  2023 he qualified for membership in the Continuum Teachers Association. His teaching focuses on how to help ourselves to be adjustable, adaptable, resilient, and flexible in our physical, emotional, and mental reality through the creative movement, breaths and sounds of Continuum. He has also developed a teaching practice,  “Diaphragmics”, to transmit these Continuum concepts with a more structural focus. Yoshi offers these classes both online and in-person in Kyoto and Tokyo.

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