Jaimal Yogis is a freelance writer living in San Francisco.

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Karen Macklin is a San Francisco-based writer, editor, and yogini who is originally from New York. She has written for more than a dozen publications nationally, including the New York Times, SF Weekly, Fit Yoga, and Tricycle magazine.

Her creative works, which include plays and poetry, have been produced and published in the United States and Italy. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and recently returned from a 9-month fellowship teaching journalism in Guatemala City.

She is currently the editorial director of Zest Books, and is co-authoring Indie Girl, a nonfiction book for teen girls, due to come out next spring.

Karen has been practicing yoga since 1999. She has studied with many amazing local teachers, and cites her most influential ones to be Jason Crandell, Jamie Lindsay, Bill McCully, and Diego del Sol. Karen's writing is influenced most by her urban roots, her international travels, her love of language, and her yoga practice.

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Stacie Stukin is a Los Angeles native who has been practicing yoga for almost 20 years and writing about it for nearly as long. Her personal practice incorporates elements of Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Kundalini, and she checks out classes and teachers all over the city.

In addition to writing about yoga, she writes about health, design, food and wine, and travel for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Yoga Journal, Time, Elle, Vegetarian Times, among others. She has written a book with Natalie Chanin of Alabama Chanin, called the Alabama Stitch Book: Contemporary Stories, Lessons and Projects Celebrating Traditional Hand Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery, which will be released by Stewart Tabori and Chang in the spring of 2008.

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Valerie Reiss is a freelance writer and Holistic Spirituality Editor at Beliefnet.com. She was articles editor at Breathe magazine and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Natural Health, Yoga Journal, Vegetarian Times and Newsweek. She's a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. You can reach her at: Valeriereiss.com.

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