Anne Cushman has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1983 and yoga since 1985, and has been teaching yoga on Spirit Rock retreats since 1999. She is the author of the award-winning novel Enlightenment for Idiots and the co-author of From Here to Nirvana, a travel guide to spiritual India. She is a contributing editor to both Yoga Journal and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and her essays on yoga, meditation, and daily life have been widely published. She teaches yoga as a support for and an expression of meditative awareness, compassion and insight.