Where Kizuki Leads, Healing Follows

The Inner Healer Project was born from a simple truth: healing starts from within.

After experiencing deep personal challenges — physically, emotionally, and spiritually — Tom Tsurumaki, founder of Inner Healer Project, turned to yoga, breathwork, and meditation not just for relief, but for reconnection. What he discovered along the way was Kizuki — a Japanese word meaning “a moment of realization.” It’s those small inner shifts that quietly lead us back to ourselves.

This project is more than a practice space. It’s a gentle invitation:
To pause, to breathe, and to listen inwardly.

Through guided yoga sessions, mindful breathwork, and grounding meditation, Inner Healer Project offers tools to help you return to your center. Whether you're seeking peace, clarity, strength, or softness, you're welcome just as you are.

Here, we don’t chase perfection.
We honor presence.
We embrace awareness.
And we celebrate every step of the healing journey.

He hopes each visit brings you a little more Kizuki — and a little more peace.

— Tsutomu Tsurumaki
Founder of Inner Healer Project
Yoga Teacher | Yoga Therapist-In-Training 

Tsutomu (Tom) Tsurumaki
Yoga Teacher | Yoga Therapist-In-Training | Founder of Inner Healer Project

He grew up in Japan, where structure, achievement, and external expectations shaped much of his early life. He became an architect — a career that taught him how to design beautiful, functional spaces. But for a long time, he wasn’t listening to the space within himself.

In 2020, facing two major health challenges, he began a simple nightly stretching routine. That small act of care became the doorway to something bigger. He discovered yoga — not just as exercise, but as a way to rebuild the architecture of his own life from the inside out.

In the winter of 2023, he traveled to India to deepen his studies and became a certified yoga teacher. Since then, he've been teaching yoga in senior housing communities and local classes in Portland, Oregon, while continuing his studies in Yoga Therapy.

His teaching blends the clarity of his Japanese roots, the structure of design, and the quiet strength of healing. He draw inspiration from Kizuki — moments of inner realization — and aim to create space for others to experience their own.

He believe healing isn’t a destination — it’s a relationship with yourself.
And he is here to walk with you on that journey, one breath at a time.