born in Tokyo
graduated from Waseda University the department of literature
Yamashita started yoga and knew its practical philosophy “refusal act, disposal act and separation act” when she was in the university. She derived Danshari from yoga’s philosophy, applied it to daily cleaning and made a self-seeking method which anyone can use.
Danshari is also a method to change one’s way of thinking, which increase mental metabolism.
She holds Danshari seminars throughout Japan, and they are very popular among those young to old, women and men, housewives to business men.
Her first book Danshari, published by Magazine House, became a best seller in Japan as well as Taiwan and China. Danshari makes a Danshari trilogy together with Fukanryoku and Zizairyoku, both published by Magazine House. The sales of her books reach 6 million copies.