Maria Afentakis
Maria is an author, public speaker, educator, mental health first aider, angelic reiki master, animal reiki practitioner and intuitive reader.
Maria has an MSc in Neuroscience from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. She has worked in prestigious scientific institutes throughout her scientific career, including Kings College University, The institute of Neurology, UCL, London School of Pharmacy, Imperial College and The Royal Marsden Hospital, London.
She has been an author in many scientific publications, including a first author paper, which is recognition for her scientific research. This paper is listed below:
Afentakis M, et al. ‘Immunohistochemical BAG1 expression improves the estimation of residual risk by IHC4 in postmenopausal patients treated with Anastrazole or tamoxifen: a TransATAC study’. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 2013.
Maria has taught many medical doctors and students scientific concepts in biology, physics and chemistry. She has supervised them, and helped them pass examinations and obtain MDs and PhDs.
Through her writing and teaching, Maria's aim is to educate others in gaining the scientific background to help them understand the importance of connecting the mind, body and soul with mindfulness techniques to bring them peace and balance in their everyday lives. She is the author of The Spiritual Scientist – bridging the gap between Science and Spirituality and has featured in many media outlets including BBC Bristol Radio, Spirit and Destiny Magazine, Natural Health Magazine, Health and Well-being Magazine, Hello Magazine, Metro and New York Times.
Maria offers 1-2-1 sessions on Mental health and mindfulness practices to make them feel more balanced and energised. Each session includes a grounding exercise, a breathing exercise, a stretching exercise and a visualisation meditation. As well as advice to enhance the experience by the use of sound, smell and sight including essential oils such as lavender or chamomile to promote calmness. Maria has won a CEO Star award at her current scientific job for providing these sessions as group session to her department as well as the company.
Maria provides meditation workshops for the biggest Mind, body and Spirit show in the UK – The Mind Body Soul Show at Alexandra palace on Mental Health, the Brain and Mindfulness Techniques.
She offers FREE meditations on her Eventbrite and You-tube platform – Maria Afentakis and you can follow her work on her website – www.mariaafentakis.com and Instagram – angelicmagic444 and email angelicmagic@outlook.com to book Mindfulness session on a 1-2-1 basis or as a group.
An interesting fact about Maria is that she works as a Specialist Genetic Scientist in an NHS laboratory diagnosing different types of cancers to give doctors genetic and histological information to help them develop personalised treatments plans for their patients!