
CHIKA ORTON
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Chika Orton was born in Japan. She likes dancing from her young age and dreamed about being a dancer. But her parents hoped her to go to university and get a decent job. So she started to work as a part time job and go to dance classes as many as she could. Even she followed her parents wish and danced as a hobby, her passion to dance was more than that. As she experienced different dances from the world, she fell in love with salsa and belly dance. She wanted to dance for her whole life so she searched what is good to keep dancing til old ages. She had studied yoga but she felt it was not enough and so she left her office job and took Pilates at the university of Nevada in US. After coming back to Japan, she started teaching Pilates. She taught Pilates in Tokyo, Sydney, Bangkok. Meanwhile, she kept dancing salsa and got a first prize in Bangkok salsa fiesta. In Bangkok, she studied Thai traditional massage and reflexology. after 2 years in Bangkok, she moved to New Delhi India with her husband. While she taught pilates there, she was fasinated by Mehandi (Henna tatoo) and learnt it from Mehandi wara (professional henna tatoo artist). In 2017, her husband decided to come back to USA and she moved in Idaho. She is a mother of three little girls. She never stops dancing even she has lived in many different countries. She thinks dance is a part of me and the best comunication tool to connect people.
