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Ananta Ripa Ajmera is author of “The Ayurveda Way: 108 Practices from the World’s Oldest Healing System for Better Sleep, Less Stress, Optimal Digestion, and More” (coming April 2017 with Storey Publishing). She is a Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and Certified Yoga Instructor who studied with Acharya Shunya, an internationally renowned Ayurveda teacher from a prominent lineage of master Vedic teachers and healers. Ananta teaches Ayurveda at Stanford School of Medicine's Health Improvement Program and Stanford Health Care. After completing an initial pilot program that yielded 47% less aches/pains, 46% better sleep, 31% improved productivity, and 80% of students feeling less stress, she became certified to teach Ayurveda staff trainings at all prisons and police departments in California. Ananta has taught at ABC News, Landmark Ventures, the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA), the invite-only Social Innovation Summit for Fortune 500 executives, government leaders and top social entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley's Health Technology Forum. She’s spoken at Columbia Business School, UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall, NYU Stern Business School, and more. Her articles are popular reads on MindBodyGreen and Elephant Journal. Her company, Whole Yoga & Ayurveda, was recognized in the Best 100 Health Coach Blogs of 2015 by the Institute for the Psychology of Eating and as one of the Best Yoga Blogs of 2016 by DoYouYoga.com. Ananta graduated from NYU Stern Business School, where she received an honors degree in marketing and was an inaugural Catherine B. Reynolds Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship.