Ere Meera Sakamoto, LMT, CST
Ere is a holistic practitioner, artist, and educator with over two decades of experience blending Eastern and Western healing traditions in support of mind-body integration and nervous system restoration.
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Ere moved to the United States at the age of 15. She began her professional life as a fashion designer, working across the U.S. and Europe in the creative industry. While her early career was rooted in design and aesthetics, a profound personal awakening eventually guided her toward a deeper calling — devoting her life to somatic healing, embodiment, and the restoration of the nervous system.
Her work is deeply shaped by Zen and Daoist philosophy. Early immersion in meditation and Japanese healing traditions cultivated a foundation of presence, subtle listening, and non-doing. Later, her exploration of Daoist wisdom and embodied flow expanded her approach into a more fluid, organic, and life-affirming expression. Today, she weaves Zen-like stillness with Dao-like movement, creating spaces where the nervous system can soften, settle, and return to its natural rhythm of aliveness.
Grounded in lived experience and extensive professional training, Ere offers a practice that is gentle, relational, and deeply respectful of the body’s innate intelligence. Through Art of Flow, she provides intuitive, trauma-informed sessions both in person and online. Drawing from Craniosacral Therapy, SomatoEmotional Release, Five Element Theory, Primal Therapy, and Systemic Family Constellation work, she honors the body as a living field shaped by personal and intergenerational experience. With gentle hands-on support and verbally guided somatic awareness, clients are invited to reconnect with their bodies, regulate their inner world, and return to a natural state of ease, resilience, and flow.
She has trained extensively in:
Craniosacral Therapy & SomatoEmotiona Release with Upledger Institute
Primal Therapy and Inner Child Healing with Svarup de Kooning
Systemic Family Constellation with Suzi Tucker
Hypnotherapy and NLP with Melissa Tiers
Meditative Therapies with Leela Itzler
Ashtanga Yoga Teachers Training with Tarun Kranti Agrawal
In addition to her one-on-one sessions, She is also a co-founder of the Padma NYC Meditation & Holistic Center in NYC where she co-created and facilitated group healing programs, retreats, and meditative workshops. Padma Center has sadly closed its physical location in Union Square during the Covid-19 pandemic but she continues to offer meditation classes and retreats in various locations.
When not holding sessions or classes, she continues to create ethical, nature-inspired clothing through her line Farms NYC, and regularly travels to Japan and Europe to offer retreats and connect with loved ones.
State License:
New York State Massage Therapy License since 2007
Trainings & Certifications:
Upledger Institute (USA):
Advanced CST - 2025
CST and Cyclus Vital: Grief, Loss and Dying - 2024
SER: Mastering the Inner Physician - 2022
The Brain Speaks 1 - 2021
Unwinding Meridians: Applying Acupuncture Principles to CST - 2021
Listening to the Second Brain: The Enteric Nervous System - 2019
SomatoEmotional Release 2 - 2018
SomatoEmotional Release 1 - 2016
Craniosacral Therapy 2 - 2012
Craniosacral Therapy 1 - 2008
Family Constellation Facilitator Certificate
The Bert Hellinger Institute, USA
with Suzi Tucker (USA) - 2025
Primal Therapy Facilitator Certificates
with Svarup de Koning (Tuscany, Italy):
Healing the Inner Child - 2021
Enneagram with Svarup de Kooning (on line) - 2022
Healing the Inner Teenager - 2024
Meditative Therapy Facilitator Certificate
with Leela Itzler (Corfu, Greece) - 2017
Integrative Hypnosis and NLP
with Melissa Tiers (New York, USA) - 2015
Energy Medicine
with Donna Eden (New York, USA) - 2013
Ashtanga Yoga Teachers Certificate
with Kranti Yoga (Goa, India) - 2012
Nuad Bo-Rarn Thai Massage
with Chongkol Setthakorn (Chang Mai, Thailand) - 2008
Degrees:
Associate in Occupational Studies (Massage Therapy and Personal Training), Swedish Institute College of Health Science (New York, USA) - 2007
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Fashion Design), Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, USA) - 1998
Deploma in Costume Design, Esmod (Paris, France) - 1996