Ellen Wood is a columnist, artist and prizewinning author. In her books and newspaper/magazine columns, she writes as Ellen Wood about how to grow younger, based on a program of Mind/Body/Spirit practices that succeeded beyond her wildest dreams to reverse her early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease (she has the gene). As a painter she uses her father's middle name, Maru¿ka. Her third book is a sequence of physical movements, developed by Tibetan monks about 2,500 years ago and passed down in secrecy to the initiated. For centuries, these Rites remained hidden within Himalayan monasteries, revered as a gateway to higher consciousness, with the added benefits of strength, vitality, youthfulness, and virility-back then, reserved only for men. Today millions of men and women are reaping the benefits of growing younger by practicing the Tibetans Rites of Rejuvenation.