Stephen K. Hayes spent his adult life in pursuit of perfection through the Asian martial arts and spiritual traditions. He traveled throughout Japan, Tibet, Nepal, and India seeking the best teachers. A husband, father of 2 daughters, and grandfather of 5, he is a writer, teacher, and student of life.He was elected to the prestigious Black Belt Hall of Fame for his pioneering work teaching the legendary Japanese ninja martial arts he studiedin Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. He was inducted into the Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Honors, and received the Martial Arts Industry Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Black Belt Magazine calls him "A legend. One of the ten most influential living martialartists in the world".He is the author of 22 books translating the timeless knowledge of the East into pragmatic lessons for contemporary Western life. His bookshave sold well over a million copies. 1971 graduate of Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, Stephen K. Hayes majored in theater. He later returned to Miami University forpost-graduate study of comparative religions.During his years in Japan, he appeared in television and film projects. American audiences might remember his role alongside Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune in the NBC samurai epic Shogun.Stephen K. Hayes taught effective self-protection skills to military and law-enforcement groups including the U.S. Air Force Academy, FBIAcademy, and members of Britain's elite SAS.In the early 1990s, he was part of Project Stargate, a top secret United States defense initiative where he used his psychic remote viewing skillsto decipher distant enemy locations.In 1991, he took ordination as a teacher of the esoteric meditation tradition.Stephen K. Hayes regularly served as personal protection escort and security advisor for the Dalai Lama of Tibet, during the Nobel PeacePrize laureate's North American travels in the 1990s and 2000s.From the mid-1990s, he began his in-depth study of Vajrakilaya "thunderbolt dagger of liberation" which he has pursued for 30 years. Overthe decades, he received personal coaching from HH Sakya Trichen in the Sakya kama rites of Vajrakilaya and Garchen Triptul Rinpoche whoguided him in the Ratna Lingpa terma rites.Stephen and Rumiko, his wife from Kumamoto, Japan, now inspire students as co-leaders of To-Shin Do, their modern take on the historicalninja martial arts. Their martial arts, meditation, and life quality enhancement presentations encourage others by translating their extensivebackgrounds in the esoteric Asian traditions into practical lessons for handling the pressures, uncertainties, and stresses of life.