Sonya Quijada

Sonya Quijada came to the U.S. as a young girl, and grew up in the Arizona Mexican-American culture community. She turned 18 at the U.S. Army Airborne School, and served as one of the few women paratroopers of the 82d Airborne Division. She was the first female honor graduate of the Advanced Airborne Jumpmaster School, in 1989. During her 28 years of Army duty, she was a leader in the Signal Corps, and then selected by the Special Operations Command to serve in the intelligence community. Her life-changing assignment came from the Army Physical Fitness Research Institute, and she subsequently became a Master Resilience Trainer, in the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness Program, helping Soldiers and executive leaders foster better relationships with themselves, their teammates, and family members. With her college foundation of biology and neuroscience studies, plus 20 years of yoga and mindfulness practices, Sonya became a a certified wellness coach. While serving on active duty, she simultaneously created and opened the first yoga studio in Leavenworth, KS, operating it for four years (in her after duty hours), until selling it when she was reassigned to Fort Bragg, NC. She brings her 35 years of experience training and instructing into the organizational workplace for custom live, in-person and virtual group presentations on a full menu of wellness topics and resilience skills to improve employee health and happiness. For private clients, she specializes in adaptive, trauma-informed biomechanics, and wellness coaching sessions. She is trained in iRest Yoga Nidra healing guided meditation for anxiety, stress, insomnia, and chronic pain. Join her in this seminar about the power of your resilience during uncertain times.