RICHARD ROSEN is a graduate of the Iyengar Institute of San Francisco and has been teaching yoga since 1987. He is a contributing editor at Yoga Journal magazine and is the director of and one of the principal teachers at the Piedmont Yoga Studio (cofounded by Rodney Yee) in Oakland, California. Many of Richard's practice instructions and technical teachings are posted on the Piedmont Yoga Studio website, www.piedmontyoga.com. He is the author of Original Yoga, The Yoga of Breath, Pranayama Beyond the Fundamentals, Yoga for 50+ (Ulysses), and The Practice of Pranayama.