Juliana Baldec: Juliana is a writer and poet, both activities require an appreciation of open spaces within myself and without myself. "Zen Is Like You" is a modern contemplative approach to awareness, simplicity, and intimacy based on my own experiences of my daily meditation and Zen meditation practice, including her personal experiences of spiritual unity and mindfulness, happiness, inner peace and love. Her intention is to make the benefits of meditation enjoyable to people who consider to get started with meditation. Her intentions are also to help people discover the many ways of meditation and the many opportunities that meditation has to offer. She wants to make meditation as accessible and as enjoyable as possible to anyone who is interested, regardless of their decent, gender, religion, education, lifestyle, or capability. Her poetic interpretations of Bliss&Zen require experience, understanding, intuition of meditation knowledge both in a daily meditation praxis and in theory by reading about it in order to be able to express my personal point of view and her poetic vision and interpretation. She enjoys discovering the essence of meditation then finding a style of writing and poetry that will express the teachings and the knowledge of meditation scholarship and practical experience. She works intensively with finding the right words for my poems until all is completed and cohesive and flowing from one line to the next line, which allows her to really sink into the meanings and keep a consistent voice of her writing. Her writing is a way of expressing my gratitude and saying thanks to the family and to her influencers who are people that have been inspiring her throughout the years like teachers, instructors, friends, and spiritual personalities like Buddha, Deepak Chopra, the Dalai Lama, and the like. Every morning when she wakes up she perform her daily meditation ritual to settle into her body, breath, gratitude, connections to people and things and with her book "Zen Is Like You" she shares and gives back her spiritual wealth and her enriched inner self and inner peace to all the people who want to get touched and enlightened by the many aspects of Meditation, too! She has been blessed and enriched and now she is strong enough to give back and share her love for meditation with the world in "Zen Is Like You." Alecandra Baldec: Meditation has made quite a comeback in recent years as more and more individuals start to realize the benefits that they can accrue from doing this low impact form of exercise. For Alecandra all started when she saw her aunt practicing meditation every day after she had a heart attack. As curiosity got the better of Alecandra she asked her aunt why she was doing this daily meditation ritual and was told that it was the best way to get the mind in sync with her body. Her aunt was also practicing a daily yoga ritual that was prescribed to her by her doctor in order to get rid of built up stress. Alecandra took this a step further and sought to do her own research to find out exactly what the process of meditation and yoga entailed. This opened her up to a whole new world and she did end up learning a lot about the meditation and the yoga process including the many benefits that came from the meditation yoga (mind body) connection. As such Alecandra took it upon herself to get the information out to as many people as she possibly could so that they, too, may learn the many benefits that they can accrue from practicing a healthy daily meditation and yoga ritual. Her book series about her Yoga Ritual and her Meditation Ritual is just one of the many ways she choses to share the many health benefits of meditation and yoga and the mind body connection that is even more beneficial if practiced in combination.
