Taiko Life Israel is a professional Israeli taiko drumming team founded by Nitay Zelniker after years of training in Japan and Taiwan with leading taiko drumming groups. The team includes Maho Sato, Einat Chitayat, Orit Zelniker and Alon Nataf on flutes. The team's style of drumming is unique, combining powerful Japanese drumming techniques with meditative zen drumming from Taiwan. Taiko Life follows a training program based on meditation, the principles of movement from the world of martial arts, and meditative zen drumming - all which promote a deep awareness of one's body and energy, and results in drumming which is flowing and exact, powerful and releasing. The Taiko Life performances deliver to the listener a unique experience of power and unity, awareness and reflection channeled through four senses: the auditory, visual, physical and spiritual. The powerful taiko drumming pieces combine deep examination of musical rhythms with knowledge of movement from the world of martial arts in meditative consciousness.