Bio: Gina Tricamo Velazquez
Beyond Belief Educational Series & Therapies - BBEST Global STL Coaching and Yoga Academy

Gina Tricamo holds a Degree from the University of San Diego in Psychology and Cultural Counseling and an AA in Child Development. She is the creator of Positive Choices through Yoga/Meditation (PCYM) Program for At-Risk Population.
Gina is a former Juvenile Deputy Probation Officer with over 300 hours of training in Psycho-Social Behaviors, Criminology, Combat Training and Substance Abuse Education.
Ms. Tricamo is a registered E-RYT500 Yoga Teacher and a member with Yoga Alliance since 2005. Her training credentials include Kinepathic School of Yoga, Warriors at Ease (which specializes in body/mind and meditation techniques for military personnel dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/ Traumatic Brain Injury/Limb Lost/Moral Injury and Military Sexual Trauma), and Prison Yoga Project for the Incarcerated.

Her integrated specialty certifications are: Victim/Offender Restorative Justice Facilitator with Insight Prison Projects, Advanced Life Coach with Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, and First Responder Coaching for law enforcement, military and other first responder groups with Cop Coach International.

Gina channels her constructive energy to guide others compassionately and gracefully from a holistic coaching and yogic point of view. She guides them toward global growth goals for resolution to deal with all levels of trauma sensitivity. Her unique process benefits all communities during their transitions and transformation of their personal and professional lives, leading them to a sense of wholeness, wellness and well-being in body, mind and spirit.
Her life path was formed and developed as a child of Sicilian immigrants, being a single mother of three, a grandmother, and over eleven years of community service with Mother Theresa of Calcutta's migrant outreach work in San Diego, CA.
Gina’s professional endeavors included being an Educational Curriculum Developer and Group Facilitator, with Grossmont School District, for the incarcerated and adult education programs, with an emphasis in culturally sensitizing psycho-transformational curriculum for Latino men, women and young adults.
Ms.Tricamo was a sworn Deputy Probation Officer assigned to Juvenile Specialty Units. She resigned from her profession to begin the process of

inner healing and fulfill her desire to serve all communities using a more integrated framework of holistic and spiritual practices.
Transitioning from a less punitive approach was a slow, mindful process that led her to redesign her gifts into the arena of the integrated arts. Gina incorporated her previous professional knowledge to develop a combination of psycho-social interventions: kinesthetic education, art, visualization, breath work, yoga and meditation for at-risk populations, including Asperger and Autistic youths.

Gina taught yoga at Grand Canyon University and provided holistic coaching seminars to specific departments on campus. During her time at Grand Canyon University Gina implemented her Beyond Belief Educational Series & Therapies -BBEST Global Life Coaching and Yoga Academy. She wrote extensive curriculums for Strategic Transformations Life Coaching certifications and a 200 hrs Yoga Teacher Training YTT certification. Gina has trained and certified many yoga teachers who are now part of the YA community. She has also developed Specialty Training Certification for teachers to advance in their specialty field of teaching. She taught the Transformational Life Coaching curriculum at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts and trained and certified STL Coaches.
Gina facilitates private retreats and continues to develop and implement Beyond Belief Holistic Wellness Education via webinars throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. She has written several holistic, educational and spiritual manuals for Addictions, Health Opportunities (including HIV/AIDS), End of Life Journey and Grief Process,Traumatic Brain Injuries,

Chronic Pain, Special Needs, Athletes Sustained Injuries and Recovery...just to name a few.
Ms. Tricamo has taught 'Being Positive About Being Positive' yoga/meditation to men, women and children with health opportunities including but not limited to - HIV/AIDs and holistic integrations for mentally and dual diagnosed populations, cancer patients, and at rehabilitation centers. She continues to write extensively in areas regarding holistic, integrated approaches and methodologies for wellness, wholeness and holiness.

Gina supports the decolonization of yoga as an agent of change, in order for all communities to inclusively live fully present in body/mind/spirit. She has facilitated workshops at the Sedona Yoga Festival and served as special guest to facilitate training with many other institutions.

Ms. Tricamo is the Founder of Beyond Belief Educational Series and BBEST Global Yoga Academy; registered with Yoga Alliance to facilitate 200 hrs teacher training certification.
She has taught Yoga Coaching at the Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ. for several years as well as her own private client practice. She is presently teaching trauma sensitive yoga for military and their families as well as working privately one on one and in group settings. She integrates Transformational Life Coaching with Yoga as she believes the marriage of these two powerful modalities of coaching provide dramatic results and

give greater inspiration to others, so they can be their best and reach their personal/professional global growth goals.

“If we all take one deep breath of Divinity, the intent and vibration of that breath will go out into the universe and heal.” Gina Tricamo, E-500 RYA, YACEP, MTLC