He was born in Ueno, a district of Tōkyō, in September 1911. It all began at the age of three or four when he was surprised to find that he had relieved someone’s toothache simply by placing his hands on them. He was a child, and his hands moved toward the target without him realising what he was doing. He accomplished his first feat at the age of twelve, when he cured his neighbours who were suffering from dysentery after the great earthquake that struck the Tōkyō area in 1923. From that age on, he began to receive people who asked him to heal them. At the time, he had no knowledge, not even basic knowledge, of anatomy or medicine. As a teenager, he began to realise the consequences of his actions. At first, like almost all healers, he believed that he had an exceptional power that only he possessed. He found his calling but did not stop there; he continued on. He taught himself all Eastern and Western therapeutic methods. At the age of fifteen, he opened a dojo in Iriya. At seventeen, he formulated Precepts of Full Life (Zensei Kun), which provide a better understanding of his thinking. In 1930, he wrote Reflections on Integral Life, a surprising text for a young man who was only nineteen at the time.

It was in the 1950s that Master Noguchi completely changed direction. Through his practical experience and personal studies, he came to the conclusion that no healing method could save human beings. He abandoned therapy and developed the ideas of Seitai and Katsugen Undō. Health is a natural thing that requires no artificial intervention. Therapy reinforces dependency. Illnesses are not things to be cured, but opportunities to be seised in order to activate and rebalance the body. He therefore decided to stop healing people and to spread Katsugen undō and Yuki, which is not the prerogative of a minority, but a human and instinctive act.

In 1956, he created the Seitai Association (Seitai Kyokai), which is still recognised and supported today by the Japanese Ministry of Education (not the Ministry of Health). He taught directly to the members of the association and gave lectures throughout Japan. He left behind many books. He had four children with his wife Akiko (1916-2004). In 1976, he died at the age of sixty-four in his home in Tōkyō, surrounded by his family.

Based on excerpts from the work of Tsuda Itsuo and the biography on the website www.seitai.org