About Roger Mallory

Yoga/Meditation Teacher Trainer, Yoga Instructor, Yoga Nidra Guide, and Brain Longevity Specialist

Since his teenage years, Roger has studied and continues to study various Eastern wisdom traditions, and has practiced, taught, and continues to teach various forms of yoga and meditation. Roger is an E-RYT200, RYT500, and a YACEP.

Between March 2015 and August 2024, Roger taught approximately over 1000 live classroom hours of yoga/meditation and workshops on best medical tactics for avoiding dementia and preserving cognitive health and functioning. In 2016, Roger became certified in the ancient art of creating and offering Yoga Nidra guided meditations and has done so, thereafter, at various yoga studios in the Tampa Bay, FL area.

In 2017, Roger attended/completed a Dream Yoga retreat in Sedona, Arizona presented by world-class Tibetan Buddhist/dream yoga master, Andrew Holecek. Also in 2017, and 2021, Roger received his certification, and, respectively, his advanced certification in teaching Yin yoga.

In 2019 Roger attended/completed the International Yoga Nidra Conference at Kripalu Center in Mass, and the Mindfulness Leadership World Summit in Washington, D.C. In 2022 Roger earned his certification as a Brain Longevity Therapy Specialist from the non-profit, Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation.

As of August 2024, Roger has presented numerous workshops on this subject to hundreds of people, live, and on Zoom, within, and outside the U.S. Roger has another workshop planned for December 2024 in Tampa.

Roger has also completed yoga and meditation training in a variety of topics, including, but not limited to advanced Pranayama and Ayurvedic medicine. Roger earned his B.A. degree in Behavioral Science and received a Superior Academic Achievement Award for his undergraduate academic performance.

Roger has worked in a university human memory, and a monkey lab, while simultaneously working full-time, over a 5 year period, with several psychiatrists and a dozen or so psychologists and social workers in a 30-bed, in-patient psychiatric clinic. Approximately 5 to 8% of the patient population in that clinic suffered from Alzheimer’s/dementia.

In 1988, Roger attained his Juris Doctorate degree and actively practiced law for over 30 years; primarily as a criminal and civil trial lawyer, in-house General [legal] Counsel, contracts and eminent domain lawyer. Details of his teachings will be updated from time to time on this website.