Our topic today: Meridian Touch, "The Art of Letting Go" with Darryl Aiken-Afam About Darryl: Born in Chicago and refined in Brooklyn, Darryl Aiken-Afam has over 25 years experience in the fitness, movement, healing and martial arts worlds. His earliest formal training began in the art of Tae Kwon Do at the age of 10, and throughout his high school years he was on both the track and footballs teams. In his early 20s he began studying Shotokan Karate and then Muay Thai kickboxing training to become amateur fighter. 
During this time he became an ACE Certified Trainer, teaching at every major health club in NYC including Equinox and Chelsea Piers while also studying Capoeira, Kali (Stick fighting), and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Training and teaching rigorously for so many years brought Darryl to a point of physical and mental exhaustion coupled with many injuries. This led him to become a practitioner of the healing arts studying Shiatsu, Okyu (Japanese Moxa) and other forms of holistic bodywork along with Oriental Medicine Philosophy in the US and Japan.This new healing path led him to create Meridian Touch in the year 2000.

Darryl then formulated Meridian Touch into a Effortless Yoga and Sports Yoga version. He is an active lecturer on Oriental Medicine Movement and Meridian Exercise theory, and has spoken at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Kinesiology Department, and also at various training, fitness and dance centers in the US and abroad. 
Contact info: darryl@meridiantouch.com www.meridiantouch.com Tel: 877.868.5073