Stephanie Chee Barea is a practitioner and educator of the science and philosophy of tantric hatha yoga. An initiate of the tantric Sri Vidya tradition—a 5,000-year-old living tradition of the Himalayan Masters—she earned a BA in biological sciences from Columbia University, is a certified ParaYoga E-RYT 500 teacher, and also holds credentials to teach Yoga 4 Teens and Prenatal Vinyasa. Stephanie continues to study tantra and train with her teachers Pandit Rajmani Tigunait and Yogarupa Rod Stryker.