Founding Director:
Sandra Summerfield Kozak, M.S.

Sandra Summerfield Kozak M.S. E-RYT® 500, YACEP® is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher who has been studying and teaching yoga full time for 35 years.  She teaches workshops throughout North America and has been teaching seminars in Europe and the U.K. for the last 15 years.  Sandra is currently the Director of International Yoga Studies, an internationally affirmed teacher certification program and the President of Light Transitions Tapes, which produces the popular BreathSounds breathing tapes.  She has been an advisory board member for the Yoga Research Center and for Yoga International Magazine, for which she was also a columnist.  Sandra has served as Vice President of both Unity in Yoga International and the World Yoga Union. Sandra is the author of “Yoga For Your Type” along with David Frawley (Lotus Press 2000).  She is the creator of BreathSounds CD’s also through Lotus Press (2003) and the author of “Forgiveness: The Yogic Path To Happiness” as well as numerous articles on yoga therapy and techniuqe.  

Sandra has been interviewed in 6 countries for books, magazines, and newspapers and has demonstrated yoga on national television in 4 countries. In national newspapers and magazines she has been called a modern day yoga master.

Since 1973 Sandra has developed and presented nationally televised yoga segments, internationally accredited teacher training courses, accredited university yoga programs, and yoga vacations. Her Masters' thesis at the University of Nevada was on the "The Physiological Effects of Yoga: Asana, Pranayama, and Meditation" and was one of earliest studies of its kind.

Sandra is currently teaching yoga therapy and personal evolution in Benicia, California and writing her third book. She is also painting; Sandra's paintings are 'reflections of consciousness' from the yoga psychology in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. To see "Reflections of the Consciousness" paintings, please visit: http://www.sandrakozak.com

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