Meera (Kasue Hashimoto) was born in Ishikawa, Japan, in 1947. She studied at the Musashino Art University, Tokyo, from 1966 - 1969 and from 1970 visited European museums and settled in Toledo, Spain.
Until 1972 she studied drawing at the Circule de Bellas Artes, Madrid, and Escuela de Arte, Toledo, where she became a co- founder of the Groupo Tolmo and the Galeria Tolmo. In 1974 she became a disciple of the Indian mystic Osho and started working also in India and Japan. In 1979 she established together with Geetesh Gibson the Osho Art School and began leading art workshops all over the world.
She developed new methods of creative expression and started her communities in Amsterdam, Sicily and California. More than 40 books of Osho´s are illustrated with Meera´s paintings.
Currently she leads painting trainingsall over the world Her unique way of working is documented in books, video and dvd´s.
