Gina Tricamo, R-MHYT

Phoenix, Arizona
Gina Tricamo is a Yoga Therapist as well as Health and Wellness Group Facilitator with extensive experience in providing innovative and evidence-based therapy for patients at different hospitals and medical facilities. She provides adaptive yoga and holistic techniques to individuals who have specific or persistent health and/or psychological needs. She brings extensive experience working in collaboration with multiple departments and health facilities, including behavioral health, rehabilitation, palliative care, and chaplain services. Ms. Tricamo is also a certified and nationally registered yoga teacher, and has enjoyed working with a wide range of communities, clientele, and studios. Ms. Tricamo brings to her role as a yoga therapist and teacher her many years of experience working as a Parole Officer in San Diego, California, who consistently went against the grain, developing innovative and highly-successful programs that brought hope and the possibility of selfrenewal to countless incarcerated youth. One extraordinary initiative entailed the Teenage Prostitute Task Force, which brought together District Attorneys and Community-based Organizations for the purpose of generating a collaborative plan of action. Ms. Tricamos most significant role emerged in assisting with the Girls Issues Group, composed of young women in the community who were sexually-exploited by pimps. Ms. Tricamo was able to spend a good of time with these young women, helping them envision a pathway out of this dangerous and horrific world of sex workers. Ms. Tricamo was also responsible for a program called Positive Choices through Youth and Meditation (PCYM), a program she designed for at-risk youth, and which became an accredited curriculum at City Heights Community School (a maximum security Juvenile Court/Community school under the jurisdiction of the San Diego County Office of Education. Once again, it was a compassionate and passionate effort to bring hope and the possibility of transformation to youth that society had pushed to its darkest margins.

Sedona, Arizona

May your physical body have strength, stability, and structural integrity, May your vital body have health and vitality, May your intellect be clear, capable, curious, eager, and open. May your character have faith, wisdom, compassion, humility, integrity and patience. May your emotions be stable and joyful. May your heart be open. May you be totally integrated structural, physiologically, intellectually, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Adapted from text composed by Gary Kraftsow (in his book, Yoga for Transformation)