JUDITH HANSON LASATER, Ph.D, and Physical Therapist and internationally-known yoga teacher, has taught yoga since 1971.  She is a founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco as well as Yoga Journal magazine.  Ms. Lasater frequently trains teachers in virtually every state and is often an invited guest at international yoga conventions.  She is President of the California Yoga Teachers' Association as well as the author of numerous articles on yoga and health for nationally recognized magazines.  She is the author of 30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers,   Relax and Renew:  Restful Yoga for Stressful Times and Living Your Yoga: finding the spiritual in everyday life.

ELISE MILLER, has a M.A. in Therapeutic Recreation from the University of North  Carolina and is an Intermediate Senior Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher from Palo Alto, California.  Elise is a founding director of theCalifornia Yoga Center in Mountain View, CA and has taught since 1976. Having a scoliosis, Elise has employed yoga for the past 30 years to heal her own back condition. She teaches classes, runs a private practice specializing in back and sports-related injuries, and teaches workshops and retreats around the world. Elise is co-author of Life is a Stretch, Yoga Anytime, Anywhere, published by Llewellyn Publications. 

LINDA E. RAWLINGS has Bachelor degrees in Mathematics and in Fine Arts (Dance) from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. She also has an MBA from UC Berkeley's School of Business as well as a Masters inJournalism from UC Berkeley. She has danced for the San Francisco Dance Theater and the San Francisco Opera Ballet, founded Express Dance Company, New Shoes Old Souls Dance Company, and has produced and performed with the Yoga Garden Dancers. Her board memberships include the Mark Morris Dance Group, Cal Performances, and the California Yoga Teachers Association. Linda has four daughters, and is currently travelling through Asia investigating additional business, writing and performance! art opportunities.

RICHARD ROSEN is the deputy director of the Yoga Research and Education Center in Santa Rosa, California, headed by Georg Feuerstein. He's a contributing editor at Yoga Journal, for which he writes a regular column and occasional book reviews and articles. His work has also appeared in Yoga International, Ascent, and Yoga Aktuell, the national German yoga magazine. His first book, The Yoga of Breath, will be published by Shambhala in the summer of 2002. Richard has been teaching yoga since 1987. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and beautiful eight-year-old daughter.