The Love's Troubadours videos feature Author/Artist/Radio Host/Creativity Coach/Yoga Teacher/Reiki Master Practitioner/Social Media Strategist/Life Entrepreneur Ananda Leeke reading excerpts from and/or discussing her debut novel, Love's Troubadours - Karma: Book One (iUniverse - August 2007). Visit www.lovestroubadours.com. Contact Ananda Leeke at kiamshaleeke@yahoo.com.

Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke is a registered yoga teacher, certified Reiki practitioner, artist, writer, creativity coach, radio host, and life entrepreneur. She owns and operates Kiamsha.com, LLC, a company that allows her to share her healing arts gifts. Currently, she works as an artist-in-residence for Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts (www.smithfarm.com) at Howard University Hospital. As an artist-in-residence, Leeke engages patients and medical staff in creative expression, guiding them to tap inherent creative and cultural roots through breathing, relaxation, and reiki healing touch exercises; and a variety of mediums including visual arts, music, storytelling, and creative writing.

Since 1995, Leeke's mixed media collages, wire sculptures, and paintings have been exhibited in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, North Carolina, and Kentucky. The Women's Collective and Howard University Hospital own Leeke's wire sculpture collections dedicated to communities of color living with HIV/AIDS. In 2001, her artwork was featured in Heart and Soul Magazine.

Leeke's debut novel Love's Troubadurs - Karma: Book One is published by iUniverse, Inc. and available on Amazon.com. Her poetry is featured in Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century edited by E. Ethelbert Miller. Leeke has also self-published several books of poetry and women's creativity workbooks. In addition, Leeke has facilitated expressive arts and self-care workshops for women of color living with HIV/AIDS; cancer patients, their caregivers, and health care providers; interfaith communities attending the Washington National Cathedral's women's spirituality conferences; children with unique learning styles; and lay ministers.

Leeke is a graduate of Morgan State University (B.A. in French, 1986), Howard University School of Law (J.D., 1989), and Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M. in Securities and Financial Regulation, 1991). Her memberships include the Yoga Alliance, Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington's Business Volunteer Program, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., All Souls Unitarian Church, Insight Meditation Community of Washington's People of Color Sangha, and Results Gym. Leeke lives and plays in Washington, D.C.'s historic U Street neighborhood.