Alexandra DeSiato, MA, E-RYT 500, an expert in yoga for healthy aging and postnatal recovery, is coauthor of Teaching Yoga Beyond the Poses and cocreator of Whole Mama Yoga.

Russ Hudson, president of Enneagram Personality Types, Inc., and cofounder of the Enneagram Institute, has been teaching professional trainings since 1991.

Tom Gillette is known as a yoga teacher with a unique blend of lived wisdom, boundless enthusiasm, and continuous experimentation. He has led more than 80 programs at Kripalu, founded four yoga studios, and trained hundreds of yoga teachers.

Rose Cratsley is the founder and CEO of Ivy Child International, a nonprofit that develops and facilitates mindfulness-based health education programs for urban children and communities from across the globe.

Laura McKowen, a writer, teacher, and speaker, is the best-selling author of We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life and Push Off From Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Life (and Everything Else).

Melanie Burns, a bodyworker and yoga teacher, combines psychology and anatomy to heal physical, mental, and emotional tension and trauma.

Radleigh Valentine, an internationally known spiritual teacher and speaker, is the best-selling author of How to Be Your Own Genie.

Rev. angel Kyodo williams, an activist, master trainer, and leading voice for transformative social change, is author of Being Black and Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation.

Michael Sein, MD, provides comprehensive musculoskeletal and rehabilitative care for a wide-range of painful conditions related to joint, muscle, and nerve dysfunction.

Suzy Becker is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author/illustrator of two award-winning illustrated memoirs, One Good Egg and I Had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse?, and nine other illustrated books for all ages.