She is also the Co-Founder of Joyful Path Meditation and Healing Center. Pema has began practicing mindfulness meditation in 1995 and Tibetan Buddhist meditation in 2001. She began an Ashtanga yoga practice in 1998 and completed her first Alignment Yoga teacher training in 2008. Pema has studied with Nischala Joy Devi, former Director of Stress Management for Dean Ornish’s Lifestyle Heart Trial and co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Program. She is certified in Nischala Joy Devi’s Yoga of the Heart.