Nupur Tewari – an internationally acclaimed healing expert from Tokyo, who spins magic with her yoga and meditation techniques, ended up her recent India tour on a promising note.
As she closely experienced immense mental and physical agonies people harbouring here, Nupur vowed to return with bigger cause in mind and set up healing centres across the country. People would be imparted free-of-cost yoga, meditation training in these centres.
Nupur leads Heal Tokyo – a socially motivated movement in Japan where she organizes Yoga training sessions for regaining balance between mind, body and soul. The money collected from the training sessions there is used for underprivileged child education in India.
“We would soon have Indian chapter of Heal Tokyo in India and set up healing centers across the country here. We also plan to prepare a team of yogis (Yoga and meditation experts) who would spread the healing message and make more and more people healthy and hearty,” Nupur said.
Having travelled to various cities during her 18-day stint in India when she held yoga and motivational sessions for thousands of youths in various institutions, Nupur also chose to spend New Year eve with homeless people sleeping on road pavements to offer them blankets to save them from chilly cold.
She also went around teaching yoga to underprivileged children gaining education in street charitable schools and motivated them as well.
However, all that was not easy and attracted a huge amount of sacrifice. Besides shelving money from her kitty, she also left her 9-year old daughter behind at her hometown Tokyo to concentrate on the philanthropic work in India. She left for Tokyo in the wee hours of January 4.
Her India tour took off with her visit to Agra, the city of world famous Taj Mahal. Here Nupur tossed up a new concept of Yoga Tourism when she visited the Institute of Tourism & Hotel Management of Dr. B R Ambedkar University.
While addressing the students during a workshop on tourism and yoga, Nupur said the people in Japan used yoga for busting stress besides addressing health and ailment concerns.
Inspired by her, the university chancellor Dr. Arvind Dixit announced to include Yoga into the university curriculum soon.
However, Nupur’s motivational address at the Rotary Public School in Gurugram near New Delhi turned up as the true manifestation of her magical healing touch.
The jam-packed school auditorium turned into a healing ashram when students started to open up with Nupur. Mesmerized by her tender voice, the initially hesitant students went on to share their personal-life concerns. One of them – a class nine girl student, burst into tears while sharing her family issues and Nupur took no time to hug and console her, made her feel the warmth of healing touch.
The students made a beeline to get clicked with Nupur who too reciprocated with her warm gestures and spent quite a long time with them as she had already become darling of them.
Also the Womanity Foundation and SBI Foundation presented to her the special Recognition of Innovation towards Social Change for the Heal Tokyo initiative. She also held yoga and motivation sessions at Lakshamibai National institute of Physical Education, Gwalior.
Born in India, Nupur has been living in Japan since 2003, and finds emotional connect with India. So India-Japan being her home she is a bridge between the physically distant lands but historically united in the spirit.
Education and Work Stress being the core problems of India and Japan respectively, Heal Tokyo is a unique way of addressing them at once.
Nupur chose to kick start the year 2019 on a divine note. When the world was busy celebrating New Year festivities on December 31 night, she led a group of young volunteers, hit the dark streets of Gurugram near New Delhi to spend time with homeless poor people shivering in bitter cold, and offered them the warmth of blankets and food.
Far away from the high-decibel music of DJs, she was aghast to find downtrodden children, women and elderlies sleeping on pavements without any shelter and enough clothing.
Before leaving for Tokyo and joining her daughter Mihika, Nupur also visited religious sites including Bangla Saheb Gurudwara and Akshardhaam Temple to offer prayers.
Nupur has been the cultural ambassador of India in Fukuoka from 2003 to 2017 before moving to Tokyo, and also a Yoga ambassador of International Yoga day in Japan. She has been teaching Yoga for the past 14 years, associated with philanthropy activities in Japan & India.
