María Macaya
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María Macaya

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María has been practicing yoga for over twenty years and has spent the last ten years specializing in working with people who have experienced trauma. She is certified in Compassionate Inquiry, trauma therapy by Dr. Gabor Maté, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga with the Justice Resource Institute, and has studied Neuroscience at King’s College University. She has learned about trauma from leading international experts in the field, including Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, Mario Salvador, and Peter Levine, and has specialized in addictions with Stanford University. She is an advanced teacher and trainer at the Jivamukti Yoga school. In her early professional career, María was an Art Critic after graduating from Tufts University and earning a master's degree from Columbia University. She holds a degree in Creative Writing from Stanford University, where she was selected to read her work at Lit Crawl in San Francisco. In 2016, she founded Fundación Rādika, dedicated to mental health and trauma, an organization she still leads. María has authored the book Yoga sensible al trauma: sanando desde el interior (Trauma sensitive yoga: healing from within), contributed to El cuerpo como camino: consciencia corporal en la atención psicológica (The body as path: Body Awareness in Psychological Care) by Laura Grinsztajn, and published articles in La Vanguardia and short stories in the volumes Barcelona and The Gift Issue by The New Niu Press. Additionally, she regularly writes about mental health on the Fundación Rādika blog.
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