After discovering yoga, Jenny Beeken studied in India with Sri B. K. S. Iyengar and subsequently with Angela Farmer and Victor van Kooten. She has been teaching in Britain, the U.S.A. and Ireland for thirty years, and has run courses in Greece, Turkey, France and Spain. She lives in Petersfield, under the English South Downs, with her daughter, and is Founder and Principal of the Heart Yoga School. This is her second book; she has also written Yoga of the Heart, Don't Hold your Breath, Ancient Wisdom and a companion to this volume, Your Yoga Birthguide (with Sally Townsend).