Susan Cambigue-Tracey has collected an impressive list of credits over 55 years as a dancer, arts education administrator, writer, nationally recognized dance artist and educator, creative thinker, and certified yoga instructor, RYT500. After retiring, she continues to work part time at the Music Center of Los Angeles County as Director of Special Projects. For 25 years she has created artistic collage works and original jewelry. Her Jeweled Tree Empowerment Collection includes necklaces, bracelets and earrings made from a variety of beads, metals, charms and gems. Currently she teaches Level 1/2 flow and chair yoga (grounded in Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga style) at Goorus Yoga studio in Pacific Palisades, California. In addition, she teaches classes and private sessions in yoga and Life Coaching in her own studio. She and her husband, international musician, songwriter and storyteller Paul Tracey, also host inspiring artistic salons several times a year in their garden and studio.
Co-author, Dr. Sandra Fallon was born in Ireland, and knew from earliest times that she wanted to be a doctor. At 10 years old, flaunting the rules which didn’t allow young children inside, she found a way to get into the Sligo General Hospital. There - for the first time in her life - she saw two woman wearing trousers! As soon as she found out that they were doctors (known locally as ‘lady doctors’) that clinched her determination to fulfill her dream. At 16, Sandra began medical school at the National University of Ireland in Galway. She then went on to specialize in cardiology followed with a sub-specialty in interventional cardiology. Moving to the U.S. in 1986, she did a residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, then came to Los Angeles, California, in 1989. She has a private practice in cardiology and lipidology in Santa Monica. Coming from a town of 4,000 in the west of Ireland, in a home without a phone, she now Skypes with patients all over the world, in Australia, Singapore, Kuwait, China and Western Europe.