In 2020, my husband and I decided to take the biggest leap of our lives and move to Japan. We had no family or friends here, no job offers and no language skills. The only connection we had was that my husband studied in Tokyo more than 20 years earlier. With the weight of the move on my shoulders, I needed something that would help bring calm and peace to my life. That’s how I ended up in online sashiko classes led by Kazue Yoshikawa of Sashiko Lab , an atelier in Kyoto. A traditional