Nikolaeva, Maria

Atma Ananda (Maria Nikolaeva) - Master of Philosophy; fellow of Indian Academy of Yoga; author of sixty scientific articles and twenty books on traditional cultures and practices printed in Russia by total run of hundred ten thousand; constant press correspondent for Russian Yoga magazines and translator of classical spiritual literature into Russian. She spent five years in India, where she stayed in ashrams and pilgrimed to holy places in high Himalayas; practiced Yoga for eight years with different teachers, completed Asana and Pranayama courses and was certified as Yoga teacher; was initia...