Samara Andrade, MA, RYT, RMT, IARP is a professional in international aid in development and has managed peacebuilding and recovery projects for communities affected by war; she is currently based at the United Nations in New York. Samara is a Yoga Tune Up© Integrated teacher, vinyasa yoga teacher, Arvigo© healing practitioner, and Reiki Master Teacher. She is co-founder of the Aid Worker Wellness Directory and co-founder of Feet on the Ground, along with fellow yoga tune up teacher, Emily Pantalone. Together they lead a 18-hour Trauma Informed Yoga training and work with yoga teacher training programs to integrate modules on the science of trauma and trauma informed movement practices. Samara has taught yoga to aid workers in Sudan, Afghanistan and Nepal. She currently teaches vinyasa yoga and Yoga Tune Up© in studios in Brooklyn and New York as well as teaches yoga for female veterans, for domestic and sexual assault survivors, immigrants, and for aid workers at the United Nations, and through international conferences.
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