Maria Gelabert (RYT-200) earned her yoga certification from Integral Yoga Institute, Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville, in 2010. While living in Staten Island, NY, she studied restorative yoga and became a Relax and Renew® teacher with Judith Lasater in 2011. Since moving to Charlotte in 2012, Maria now teaches basic yoga at the West Center (Winthrop University, Rock Hill) and Yoga for Life (Charlotte), where she has taught Restorative Yoga classes and developed workshops since 2017. With a Ph.D. in chemistry, Maria is a faculty member at Winthrop, teaching upper level courses in thermodynamics, where the subject of entropy (disorder) is central to the understanding of scientific processes. Her professional career and personal yoga endeavors have inspired the merging of these worlds within the Mind Chaos restorative workshop, now in its third offering.