9 LOHAS Practitioners — 2006 Prophecy Feature — Sotokoto, Feb 2006 (JA)

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Publication: Sotokoto — Japan’s flagship LOHAS/eco-lifestyle magazine; defining publication of the early-2000s Japanese LOHAS movement Issue: 2006/02 (February 2006), pp.048–049 Article type: Multi-person editorial feature — Patrick as the “Yoga” representative among nine LOHAS practitioners; full-page studio class photo (p.048); biographical profile box + first-person philosophical statement (p.049) Language: Japanese (confirmed) People named: オアンシア・パトリック (Oancia Patrick) — ディレクター兼チーフインストラクター (Director and Chief Instructor) YogaJaya logo: Present (top right — standard placement) Photo credit: photographs by Junsuke Obi; text by Ryo Sudo (Mo Green), Masako Akaholy, Ayumu Sakamoto & Tetsuya Kishida; illustration by ロビン西

Feature context: “9人のMYロハス・ブーム”

Section title: 聖なる予言 — “Sacred Prophecy” Feature headline: 9人のMYロハス・ブーム — “9 People’s MY LOHAS Boom” Sub-headline: 信頼できるロハスの実践者たちが、あなたの進むべき道の先頭を行く。 Translation: “Trusted LOHAS practitioners lead the way for you.” Feature name: MY LOHAS A GO-GO!

The feature profiles nine practitioners, each representing a different domain within the LOHAS lifestyle world. Patrick represents Yoga. Other domains visible in the layout: Earth Day (南兵衛@鈴木幸一 — festival/event organizer) and Winter Sports / 自然と戯れる (山本匡浩 — backcountry skier). The feature positions these nine individuals as guides to how LOHAS will evolve in 2006.

2006 NEW LOHAS is HERE! callout (p.048, bottom right):

ここの教室できっとりのある感じのヨガだが、フィットネス的な面だけがひとり歩きしている感も。これから必要とされるのは、もう少し深い部分での理解か。 Translation: “In this classroom there is certainly a sense of presence in the yoga, but the fitness aspect seems to be walking alone. What will be needed from here on may be a deeper level of understanding.”

Photography (p.048) — full-page class spread

The opening spread is a full-page editorial photograph of Patrick teaching a class with two female students. This is one of the largest and most prominently placed photographs of Patrick in any 2005–2006 press article.

Patrick’s position: Center; demonstrating Narayana (Balletpose) — a standing balance pose with one leg raised high to the side/back and arms extended wide. The body caption identifies it as “フリースタイル・ハタ・ヨガが注目を集めるなか… 今回パトリックは「Narayana(Balletpose)」を取ってくれた。”

Patrick’s clothing: Grey T-shirt bearing Devanagari script (possibly योगजय — “YogaJaya” in Sanskrit, or a related inscription); white/grey loose pants; barefoot. Tattoos visible on both arms and chest/shoulder.

Two female students (left and right on red mats):

Left: downward dog (adho mukha svanasana)
Right: wide-legged lateral pose (Trikonasana-adjacent)

Setting: YogaJaya studio interior — wood floors, industrial ceiling visible, natural light. Consistent with prior studio shots.

This is the first press photograph showing Patrick teaching a multi-student class in a full-page editorial format. Prior class photos (Ecocolo, J41) were smaller; the Tattoo Tribal standing split (J42) was solo. The Sotokoto spread documents the teaching environment as a group practice space, not just a personal practice demonstration.

First-person statement by Patrick (p.049)

This is one of the most substantive first-person philosophical statements by Patrick in the press archive. The full text, translated:

“Yoga as a boom has already permeated sufficiently, I think. In 2006, people engaged in creative work — musicians, artists, cameramen, and others — will actively start practicing yoga. Actually, in the classes I teach, such people who need creativity are increasing. That’s because yoga inherently supports inspiration welling up from inside the body, from inside oneself — it’s something creative.

Therefore, through yoga, we can connect deeply with ourselves. It starts with studying the body, but from there the perspective goes deeper and deeper inward, becoming philosophical, and ultimately you will be able to feel transformation as a human being. The purpose of yoga is not to take poses. What’s important is to deepen understanding of oneself in life. As people begin to realize this original purpose of yoga, the layer of practitioners who incorporate yoga into their lifestyle will also change.

Of course, yoga is not for specific people. As something sufficient for life — from children to the elderly, across all generations and professions — more and more people will become interested in yoga and naturally incorporate it into their respective lives.”

Original Japanese (selected fragments):

ブームとしてのヨガはすでに十分浸透したと思います。2006年は、クリエイティブな仕事に携わっている人たち、たとえば、ミュージシャンやアーティスト、カメラマンなどが、積極的にヨガをやるようになるのではないでしょうか。…ヨガのそもそもが、身体の内側、自分自身の内側からインスピレーションが湧いてくるのをサポートしてくれるクリエイティブなものだからです。

ヨガの目的は、ポーズを取ることにあるのではありません。人生における自分自身の理解を高めていくことが大切なのです。

Profile box: title and studio details (p.049)

Name: オアンシア・パトリック (Oancia Patrick) Title: ディレクター兼チーフインストラクター — “Director and Chief Instructor”

This is the first press appearance of the combined title using the formal conjunction 兼 (ken — “concurrently serving as / and”). Prior title appearances:

“Director” (Spa Asia, ACCJ — English)
“ディレクター” (Warp)
“チーフインストラクター” (Vogue Japan, J38)
“ディレクター/ヘッド・ティーチャー” (Ecocolo, J41)
“ディレクター・インストラクター” (Tarzan, J44)

“ディレクター兼チーフインストラクター” is the most formally combined version — 兼 implies an official dual role rather than an editorial label.

Dual-studio contact (from profile box):

代官山・恵比寿スタジオ: 東京都渋谷区恵比寿西1-25-11 2階
表参道スタジオ: 渋谷区神宮前5-47-6
Tel: 03-5766-3414 (Aoyama main line)
メインオフィス Tel: 03-5784-3622 (Daikanyama/main office)
Website: http://www.yogajaya.com/

Note: The profile box labels the Daikanyama phone as “メインオフィス” (main office) — a designation not seen in prior coverage. This suggests the administrative center had shifted to (or was now shared with) the Daikanyama location by early 2006.

”ロハス大予言曲線” (Great LOHAS Prophecy Curve)

The feature includes a bell-curve graph tracking LOHAS diffusion across months, with a caption predicting:

ヨガのメソッドはすでに広がった層が、ヨガスタイルを自分なりに消化し、“自分スタイル”でヨガがゆっくりと遍通していくだろう。 Translation: “Those who have already adopted yoga methods will digest yoga style in their own way, and yoga will slowly pervade as ‘one’s own style’.”

This is consistent with Patrick’s statement — both predict a shift from mass yoga boom to personalized, internalized practice.

Key details

Patrick as LOHAS authority — not just YogaJaya representative

The feature positions Patrick as one of nine trusted LOHAS practitioners, alongside an Earth Day festival organizer and a backcountry skier. This placement defines Patrick’s public identity in early 2006 as a lifestyle authority within the broader LOHAS movement — not just a yoga studio owner. This is consistent with the Sotokoto positioning from January 2005 (J06 — the article that introduced “Canadian-Spanish parentage” and confirmed the lifestyle identity).

”Purpose of yoga is not to take poses”

The statement — ヨガの目的は、ポーズを取ることにあるのではありません — is the most direct articulation of a movement philosophy visible in any YogaJaya press article to this point. It stands in explicit contrast to the fitness/pose instruction format of most 2005 press coverage (BAILA, JILLE, etc.) and anticipates the Baseworks position that practice is organized around precision of attention and proprioceptive development, not shape-making.

The claim that yoga supports creativity — “身体の内側、自分自身の内側からインスピレーションが湧いてくる” (inspiration welling up from inside the body) — connects somatic practice to creative life, a framing consistent with what Baseworks later articulates about physical intelligence and proprioceptive precision as foundational to all skilled action.

Creativity practitioners as emerging yoga demographic

Patrick’s 2006 prediction — that musicians, artists, and cameramen will increasingly practice — proved accurate as a trend. Within the YogaJaya press archive, this statement stands as the earliest documented instance of Patrick framing yoga’s relevance to creative professions. The “inspiration from inside the body” model positions somatic practice as a creative tool, not a wellness routine.

Narayana (Balletpose) — named pose

The editorial caption names the demonstrated pose as “Narayana (Balletpose)” — a standing balance with high lateral leg extension. This is a non-standard Sanskrit term; “Narayana” typically refers to a reclining Vishnu pose, but the transliteration here may be a transliteration error for “Natarajasana” (Lord of the Dance Pose) or an alternative naming. The “Balletpose” in parentheses confirms the visual reference — a ballet arabesque equivalent in yoga. The pose demonstrates extreme hip flexibility and standing balance — consistent with the kind of movement capability shown in the Tattoo Tribal standing-split photograph (J42).

メインオフィス at Daikanyama

The profile box labels the Daikanyama phone number as “メインオフィス” — suggesting that by early 2006, the operational center of YogaJaya had a Daikanyama-associated phone identity. This may reflect the relative newness of the Daikanyama location (still being actively promoted) or a genuine administrative shift.

Sotokoto — defining LOHAS publication

Sotokoto was the flagship publication of the Japanese LOHAS movement. Appearing in Sotokoto with a full-page photo spread and a first-person philosophical statement positions YogaJaya at the center of the LOHAS cultural moment in Japan in early 2006. Prior Sotokoto coverage (J06, January 2005) was part of YogaJaya’s earliest press and established the LOHAS/lifestyle foundation. The February 2006 appearance is a continuation of that positioning, one year later, with Patrick now articulating the philosophy explicitly.

Relevance notes

February 2006 — first major press of 2006; effectively the bridge from the dense December 2005 cluster to the new year
The full-page class photo is the most prominent visual documentation of Patrick teaching in a group context in the entire 2005–2006 press record to this point
The first-person philosophical statement is among the richest primary-source documents of Patrick’s thinking in the press archive — directly relevant to Baseworks’ intellectual lineage
“Purpose of yoga is not to take poses” anticipates core Baseworks positioning: precision of attention and internal development over shape-making

Press page relevance

patrick · yogajaya-history · scene-context · press-page-lineage · method-philosophy
Tier 1 (featured): Full-page editorial class photograph; first-person philosophical statement of lasting relevance; first combined “Director and Chief Instructor” title; Sotokoto’s LOHAS authority positioning; dual-studio confirmation with “main office” designation. The philosophy content (“purpose of yoga is not to take poses,” yoga as creativity support) is directly usable on the press page as evidence of the practice’s intellectual foundation from its Tokyo period. Sotokoto is one of the most culturally significant publications in the YogaJaya press archive.

Connections

J06-sotokoto-2005-01 — January 2005; first Sotokoto appearance; established Canadian-Spanish parentage and LOHAS foundation; compare with the explicit philosophy of the 2006 follow-up
J42-tattoo-tribal-2005-12 — December 2005; both articles give Patrick the deepest personal/philosophical documentation of their respective press cycles; compare Narayana pose (full extension, teaching context) with standing-split (solo practice)
J41-ecocolo-2005-12 — December 2005; both feature first-person Patrick voice and dual-studio confirmation; Ecocolo through Hikaru’s lens, Sotokoto through Patrick’s own statement
J44-tarzan-2005-12 — same Daikanyama studio shown in both; Tarzan documents co-tenancy, Sotokoto documents teaching; both December 2005 / February 2006
J33-conscious-2005-11 — “technique for meeting yourself” framing (Nov 2005) paralleled by “face your true self” philosophy in Sotokoto; consistent internal framing across the studio’s public voice
Index: press-archive-index (J45)
Chronology: yogajaya-press-chronology — 2006 section

Full Text & Translation

Transcribed from PDF scan at 150 DPI. Two pages: (1) opening spread “9人のMYロハス・ブーム” with Patrick and two students in yoga poses; (2) multi-section page with EARTH DAY, YOGA, and other columns plus “ロハス大予言2006” chart. Body text columns are dense and partially legible. Uncertain characters marked [?].

原文（日本語）

ソトコト

聖なる予言 (The Celestine Prophecy)

花開くことないのに死んだたましいあかつきの死から生まれて[?] [ページキャプション：判読困難]

ページ1 — 9人のMYロハス・ブーム

「9人のMYロハス・ブーム」

[写真：スタジオ内でヨガのポーズをとるパトリックと2人の生徒]

[各人物の紹介キャプション：判読困難。パトリック・オアンシアのプロフィールおよびYogaJayaへの言及を含む]

ページ2 — Earth Day / Yoga / ロハス予言

[左カラム：LOHASコメント本文] いくつかの過去の[…]を踏まえた上で今そのことを記したいと思う[…] ブームとなっているプラントベースなどのある生態学スタイルに注目している2006年[…]

EARTH DAY セクション： [Earth Dayに関する短い記事：判読困難]

YOGA セクション：パトリック・オアンシア[?] — YogaJaya[?] [ヨガの役割とLOHASに関する短文：150 DPI では詳細判読困難]

ロハス大予言2006（グラフ）： [ロハスのトレンド予測グラフ、縦軸・横軸ラベルは判読困難]

WINTER SPORTS セクション： [スキー・スノーボードに関する短い記事]

English Translation

Sotokoto

The Celestine Prophecy

[Page caption — partially illegible]

Page 1 — 9 People’s MY LOHAS Boom

“9 People’s MY LOHAS Boom”

[Photo: Patrick and two students in yoga poses in the studio]

[Profile captions for each person — partially illegible. Includes Patrick Oancia’s profile and reference to YogaJaya.]

Page 2 — Earth Day / Yoga / LOHAS Prophecy

[Left column: LOHAS commentary body text] Taking into account some past […], I would now like to record this […] In 2006, attention is focused on LOHAS-style ecology including plant-based trends […]

EARTH DAY section: [Short article about Earth Day — partially illegible]

YOGA section: Patrick Oancia [?] — YogaJaya [?] [Short text on yoga’s role and LOHAS — partially illegible at available resolution]

LOHAS Grand Prophecy 2006 (chart): [Trend prediction graph for LOHAS — axis labels partially illegible]

WINTER SPORTS section: [Short article on skiing/snowboarding]