Founder
The Nishino Method - Breathing Excercises

Notable Messages

“Being alive is all that matters”

There is only one absolute truth for human beings, and that is that they are alive right now.

Once you die, it does not matter what happens to the world or how history changes. In that sense, the importance of being alive now is more important than the world or the Earth.

In other words, it is because you are alive now that you are connected to the world and the world exists.

Needless to say, being alive is a biological phenomenon in which the body is alive. It is precisely because this body is alive that a higher forms of life such as human beings can have both a mental and a spiritual world.

For living creasures, to be alive is basically to live in the present moment improvisationally. In other words, no matter how rational and reasonable we may appear to be at first glance, we are forced to live in the moment and in a flexible manner.

This is evident in history. Not only in the primitive era, but also in the modern era, human beings have always been swept up in unforeseen circumstances throughout history, and have lived their lives according to the providence of nature, responding to each situation as it arises.

For those who live in such a reality, common sense brain knowlege (intelligence as knowledge) alone is not enough to make use of one's true self. Common sense knowledge often does not come through when faced with the actual situation of the flow of the world. In order to live to the fullest extent of our abilities, the latent intelligence of the body, which comes into play in times of crisis, is indispensable.

In the Nishino Method, such body ingelligence is called "Shintai-chi (Physical Intelligence)”.

“Putting your sleeping cells to work”

It is impossible to predict the future with our brain knowledge. However, we can predict the future to some extent by cultivating another kind of knowledge, what I call "Physical Intelligence.”

In fact, in 1985, I created the Nishino Breathing Method as a way to cultivate physical intelligence, and through its repeated practice, I discovered that as far as the body is concerned, “One is Everything and Everything is One."* and I have expressed this in my lectures and books.

This is by no means to say that I am special, but rather that anyone who practices the Nishino Breathing Method can feel this in their body.

For example, if you practice according to the Nishino Ryu curriculum and become able to circulate "Ki" throughout your body, your hands will become sensitive like sensors of your body. Then, before the hands even touch an object, they will be able to detect, grasp, and naturally respond to the object. It is as if the hand sees like the eye, or perceives, judges, and perceives the object like the brain. It is as if every cell in the body is responding to the environment and events with a certain "intelligence" as if it were an independent entity.

Of course, this assumption may reflect the fact that my medical school education provided me with a basic knowledge of cells and the body from early on.

However, as I practiced the breathing methods I created, I came to realize that the body is in fact an organic creation of some 60 trillion cells, in which "One is Everything and Everything is One”.

According to the medical information, half of the cells that make up the human body are "asleep”.

“Sleeping” means that they simply exist without performing any useful function for the functioning of the human body.

My hypothesis is that Nishino Method breathing exercises work not only on functioning cells, but also on cells that are asleep, thus enabling a new way of life that breaks the existing patterns of cells that have been working until now.

In the 21st century, a new way of human life is required. It seems to me that this cannot be achieved by simply acquiring new knowledge in the form of reading books or hearing from others. Knowledge acquired indirectly by reading books or listening to others does not mean that it has been acquired directly in the body. Only what we learned through our own body is the "knowledge" that can be utilized in the true sense of the word.

*From just one thing we can infer all other things.

Biography of Kozo Nishino

Kozo Nishino (1926 – 2021) was born in Osaka, Japan. While studying at the Osaka City University Faculty of Medicine, he was inspired by the great accomplishments of the famous ballet producer Sergei Diaghilev, and joined the Takarazuka Musical Dance Revue, soon becoming the resident ballet instructor and dance choreographer. In 1951, Nishino enrolled in the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School in New York.

After returning to Japan, he established the Nishino Ballet Troupe in 1954, and produced famous prima dancers. After embarking on a career that encompassed choreography as well as T.V. and stage productions, he created a string of a great hits by producing and directing many T.V. shows.

He learned Aikido from Kisshomaru Uesiba Doshu (son of the Aikido Founder) and trained in Kung Fu under Master Kenichi Sawai. He attained the highest rank "Shihan"(Master) in both Aikido and Kung Fu. Through his mastery of the sciences of life - "medicine", of the arts of the body - "ballet", and from his acquisition of advanced interactive senses - "martial arts", he originated and developed the way to cultivate life energy, The Nishino Breathing Method.