Mitra Emad is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS). Dr. Emad is a cultural anthropologist and yoga teacher working at the intersections of ethnography, movement, somatics, and resilience. With 30 years experience as a researcher and award-winning teaching professor in academia, she is currently expanding how and what she teaches, endeavoring to create innovations in college education. She occasionally offers private yoga classes that focus on somatics and endeavor to address all the layers of being human: body/soma, mind/intellect, spirit/energy, and bliss/pure consciousness.