Adelfa Marie SamsonAdelfa Marie Samson, ERYT500, YACEP Adelfa has been a yoga practitioner since 1995 and a Yoga Professional since 2003. Her two decades plus of teaching has given her immense and broad knowledge of yoga and other health related disciplines that, not oly does she teach or preach but practice in her daily life. Her other health training include modalities in Reiki, Thai Yoga Massage, Shiatsu and Accupressure, Reflexology, Ayurveda disciplines such as Pancha Karma, Ayurvedic Beauty Therapy, Chavitti Uzchichil/ Advance Foot Massage, Kalari Chikitsa Marma/ Deep Tissue Massage, Ayurvedic Pregnancy Care and Baby Massage and Integrated Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy from various schools in India and Pilates from Aerobics and Fitness Association of America. She authored this book to help impart knowledge that she knows will be beneficial for you to manage stress and the challenges of daily living. Adelfa is the Director/Yoga Master and Lead Trainer at Kishore Kendra Trust Yoga School, Bangalore, India. Adelfa teaches Ashtanga/Vinyasa, Kundalini, Classical Hatha, Gentle and Senior Yoga and Vasistha Yoga, Pilates, Yin, Pranayama and Ayurveda and trains students in Vinyasa and Classical Hatha courses for Teachers. Adelfa conducts retreats and Yoga Teacher Training Courses worldwide. Adelfa is a Travel Coordinator for Hikes and Yoga. Adelfa's yoga discovery was a fluke when she was seeking pain relief from her tertiary foot surgery. Yoga transformed her world and improved her physical health including an inbred asthma condition and she believes yoga can benefit your health as well. Adelfa travels worldwide but above all, yoga has allowed her to travel within. When she is not on her mat, she is on her hiking boots. Here are exotic places where she has traveled; Inka Trail in Peru, Ingapirca Ruins, Tres Cruces, Cotopaxi and Andes mountains in Ecuador, Tiwanaku and Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, San Pedro Atacama in Chile, La Fortuna, Arenal and Monteverde volcanoes and Rincon de la Vieja in Costa Rica, Masaya, El Puma and Maderas volcanoes in Nicaragua, Pacaya volcano in Guatemala, The Himalayas; Annapurna Circuit and Tengboche in Nepal, Tibet, India and Bhutan, hill tribe trekking in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Mount Merapi in Indonesia, stupas and monuments of Bagan and Myanmar, Gildalough in Ireland, Krodig Mountain in Austria, Thingvellir National Park, Hveragerdi Geothermal Park, Borgarfjordur, Eyjafjallajökull, Landmannalaugar Nature Reserve in Iceland, High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, Fjords in Norway, El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, Glaciers in Canada and United States, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches and Badlands in Utah, Grand Canyon in Arizona, Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, Death Valley, Yosemite National Parks and Tahoe in California and backpacked the Lost Coast in Humboldt County in coastal California. She can take you to these places. Adelfa earned her Bachelor's degree in Business Management from Boise, Idaho. Her academic background landed her in careers in the corporate world in various industries from finance, banking, utilities, insurance, manufacturing and she owned her own business where she was named "Woman Business Entrepreneur" by NM Business Journal. She traded her corporate hat for yoga pants and she is absolutely certain that she made a permanent choice. With permission, she included a couple of charts that were excerpted from Dr. Vasant Lad's book, Ayurvedic Cooking for Self-Healing, 1994. If you are seeking positive changes in your life, give yoga a try. Connect with her at Www.TrinityOfYoga.com; Adelfa@TrinityOfYoga.com. Namaste. "Practice makes perfect." I hope I will never be perfect so I can perfect my practice. Read More Read Less