Ere Meera Sakamoto, LMT, CST

Ere is a holistic & therapeutic facilitator with vast experience in blending Eastern and Western healing modalities to assist the development of internal self awareness and mind-body integration. Her therapeutic and meditative approach, prioritizing body awareness as the main pathway to address underlying emotional, mental, and physical needs, helps her clients restore a deep sense of connection to their vitality. She guides her clients into the depths of their inner world and inspires authentic self expression. With 15+ professional years in the healing-arts, Ere provides support and tools to individuals who are seeking a holistic and alternative approach to move through life’s challenges.

More about Ere:
Ere is a New York state licensed massage therapist since 2007. She holds certifications in both hypnotherapy from the National Guild of Hypnotherapy and CranioSacral Therapy/SomatoEmotional Release from the Upledger Institute, as well as her work as a registered Ashtanga yoga instructor. In addition, she has trained in a multitude of meditation and therapy techniques. She feels that her practice derives from an overflow of all the self work she has been doing for herself. Here is a bit of her story where her journey as a holistic facilitator started…

She was born in Tokyo, Japan, where meditation and healing work were a part of her every day life. She grew up with her grandmother who meditated every morning and often invited healers such as acupuncturists and zen shiatsu practitioner at home. She left Japan to study and learn English in US at the age of 15. After finishing college in New York and also in Paris, she became a fashion designer. Her work brought her to many countries, where she also had the opportunity to explore different yoga and meditation retreats. But her journey of diving deeply into herself really started after a traumatic end to a 10-year marriage. When her ex-husband left her, she unexpectedly regressed into her three years old inner child and encountered for the first time her deepest pain of abandonment from her mother. After coming out of the freeze, fight and flight state, she decided to take a break from her career as fashion designer and went to India alone for a few months, visiting many temples and ashrams. It was an intuitive step connected with this search that led her to a service in holistic work. She decided to completely redirect her life style and go back to school to learn bodywork and holistic medicine. Ever since then she continues to participate and assist in a multitude of therapy trainings and meditation workshops (Primal Therapy/Inner Child Healing, Systemic Family Constellation, Psychodrama, Neuro-linguistic Programming, 21 days Silent Meditation, 21 days Satori/Intensive Self-Inquiry, OSHO Mystic Rose meditative therapy, Vipassana, etc.) She feels very fortunate to have the tools, especially meditation and CranioSacral therapy, which have helped her to finally feel safe in her body so that she could acknowledge and accept all her emotions such as pain, fear and anger and process them. She is also truly grateful to share these tools with her clients - fellow travellers who long to explore and grow themselves as she does.

Ere has practiced in a diverse array of settings including Padma NYC Meditation and Holistic Center, where she was one of the founder along with Nicholas Waterfall. Padma has closed due to pandemic but she continue to support her community through personalized 1:1 Somatic Therapy sessions, immersive group workshops, and accessible online education. She also offers sessions and retreats in Europe and Japan a few times every year, where she enjoys visiting her families and friends as well. Even though fashion industry was not where she felt totally connected at the end, Ere continues to share her passion to make clothes with Farms NYC, her minimalist line of nature-inspired, ethical, organic, and high-comfort play clothes.

State License:

New York State Massage Therapy License since 2007

Selected Certificates:

Systemic Family Constellation with Suzi Tucker - in progress

Healing the Inner Teenager with Svarup de Kooning in Tuscany, Italy - 2024

Primal Therapy, Healing the Inner Child with Svarup de Koning in Tuscany, Italy - 2021

Meditative Therapy Facilitator Certificate with Leela Itzler in Corfu, Greece - 2017

Integrative Hypnosis and NLP with Melissa Tiers in New York, NY - 2015

Upledger CranioSacral Therapy Courses:
CranioSacral Therapy 1 - 2008
CranioSacral Therapy 2 - 2012
SomatoEmotional Release 1 - 2016
SomatoEmotional Release 2 - 2018
Listening to the Second Brain: The Enteric Nervous System - 2019
Unwinding Meridians: Applying Acupuncture Principles to CST - 2021
The Brain Speaks 1 - 2021
SER: Mastering the Inner Physician - 2022
CST and Cyclus Vital: Grief, Loss and Dying - 2024

Ashtanga Yoga Teachers Certificate with Kranti Yoga in Goa, India - 2012

Nuad Bo-Rarn Thai Massage with Chongkol Setthakorn in Chang Mai, Thailand - 2008

Educations:

Associate in Occupational Studies (Massage Therapy and Personal Training), Swedish Institute College of Health Science, New York - 2007

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Fashion Design), Fashion Institute of Technology, New York - 1998

Deploma in Costume Design, Esmod Paris, France - 1996