ISSEY

At age18, Issey joined the Singapore Armed Forces and was commissioned as an officer. He later served with the Elite Commando Special Operations Force (SOF) for 5years as a platoon commander.

During this time, he was trained by the world renowned German Border Guards (GSG 9) in 1981 and Elite US Army Special Forces in 1982.

He later embarked in his career in Fitness arena, starting as Personal Trainer in 1998 having obtained his certification in both UK YMCA Fitness and ISSA Certified Fitness Trainer. In 2003 he graduated from the Vivekananda Yoga Instructor course. In order to deepen his yoga practice, he later travelled to India to be trained as a certified Sivananda Yoga Instructor. He has since been teaching yoga for the past 8 years.

On the active side, Issey is also a trained Les Mills Body Combat, Body Pump, Pilate and Body Balance Instructor. In his heydays, he was an avid Taekwondo competitive player. He has represented Singapore in several world Taekwondo tournaments and has won in total, 6 National and 2 ASEAN Taekwondo Championships.

He currently conduct a variety of classes including Body Combat, Hot Flow, Power Yoga, Hatha yoga and Hot yoga at the centre.