Felicia Marie Tomasko, RN was nominated to the Board of Directors by the Traditional World Medicine and Emerging Professions member organizations for which she serves as the principal go-between. Tomasko is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, an ACCAHC member organization, and Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 the president of the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine. She is the editor in chief of LA YOGA Ayurveda and Health magazine, a position that combines her interests and passion in Ayurveda, Yoga, education and writing. Tomasko has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaching since 1997. It was yoga, and Deepak Chopra's books that first introduced Felicia to Ayurveda, which she began studying in 1993. Her studies include the practitioner, pancha karma therapist, educator, yoga therapy and Ayurvedic mother and baby care programs at the Rocky Mountain Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda as well as at Alandi Ayurvedic Gurukula, both in Boulder, Colorado. She continues her studies with a number of different teachers and credits them for her implementation of the practice. Tomasko is on the editorial board of Light on Ayurveda journal, and has a private yoga therapy and Ayurveda practice in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California. Her background includes a degree in nursing and one in biology and work in integrative medicine, neuropsychology research and biochemistry research.