Ioanna Salajan was born in the United States and began painting at an early age. After a few years at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, she came to Europe in 1959 and began a travelling-studying-painting life that drew her to Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Belgium, Holland, and Spain. During these journeying years she also studied and worked in a variety of fields: from painting, art restoration, teaching, archaeology to being a light show artist, Zen student, comics illustrator, and finally meditation teacher, astrological consultant, and master healer. Since 1980 she has been living in Spain on the Balearic Islands, first on Ibiza and now on Mallorca, where she carries on painting and teaching, leading meditation retreats twice a year (one in Spanish, one in English), and enjoying and sharing the beauty of life with her many friends and students.