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Maja Thune is a celebrated author and teacher of Therapeutic yoga. She has a BA in psychology from the University of Oslo and is an Art and Expression therapist. She recieved her Hatha yoga education in India and is a certified Yin yoga instructor. Maja has taught yoga in hospitals, treatment centers, and yoga studios for the past ten years and is a renowned speaker in Norway. Her pioneering work in bringing yoga, mindfulness, and compassion as an alternative healing modality into psychiatry has brought media attention and developed into a series of concert-seminar events called Love as Medicine. Maja also established and directs a two-year education program in Therapuetic yoga, where professionals and health care workers learn how yoga and mindfulness can be used as a healing method in the face of mental disturbance and stress, both common and clinical.

Together with her genuine warmth and disarming presence, what makes Maja so inspirational as a teacher is her personal story; after many years of debilitating mental illness and being committed to a hospital, she found her own way out using alternative healing methods, such as art therapy, yoga, and mindfulness techniques. And she has returned to the same hospitals, this time working with compassion as a therapist to some of the most mentally ill patients in Norway.