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San Francisco 2006 - Conference Blog
Lauren Ladoceour is Yoga Journal's editorial assistant and media editor. She joined Yoga Journal as the Web intern after graduating from Boston University in 2005. In addition to YJ, Lauren has worked at Sunset Custom Publishing and written for Rolling Stone, Boston Magazine, the Boston Phoenix, and the Spokesman-Review. Lauren is an avid gamer and cook, and enjoys refinishing antiques and competing in small trivia tournaments.
On Sundays, you can usually find her trying to answer NPR's weekly puzzle with her legs up against a wall in Viparita Karani.
Erica Rodefer is Yoga Journal’s Web editorial intern. A recent journalism graduate from Middle Tennessee State University, she decided to leave her job as a reporter at a small newspaper in Maryland to immerse herself in everything yoga. Erica was an editor for her college newspaper and has also written for The Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper. In her spare time, Erica enjoys exploring her new surroundings and looking for a quiet park bench where she can sit to read on sunny days. Her favorite pose is Dhanurasana.
Andrea Kowalski is the Yoga Journal Web Content Editor. Andrea came to YJ from Okinawa, Japan, where she taught journalism and music at Kubasaki High School. Prior to living in Japan, Andrea worked on Prevention magazine at Women.com, for Earthlink and as a reporter in Southern California.
Andrea received her Bachelor's degree in music from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and her Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She's certified in Living Foods by the Ann Wigmore Institute in Puerto Rico and has studied Thai medicinal massage at Wat Pho in Bangkok.
Offline, Andrea enjoys spending time at Spirit Rock meditation center, teaching Kundalini yoga, surfing Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz and preparing vegan raw/living foods. Her vice is soy chai and her favorite pose is Sarvangasana.
After four and a half years as Yoga Journal webmaster, I have gained a great appreciation for the yoga community and hope to continue my service through my blogging efforts. Though I am no longer on staff, I will be writing for the Yoga Journal blogs and have my own ecology related blog at www.iwantcleanair.com.
Over the next couple of weeks, I will be posting some text, video and photography into this blog. Let me know what you are liking. I will try to post more of it.
 We have been asked to post our favorite pose. I enjoy the Uttanasana (Standing Forward Bend) portion of Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations) -- check out this video clip -- it brings such calming delight along with stretched hamstrings. I also enjoy a good long version of Uttanasana, just hanging upside-down. Or 30 minutes of meditation in easy-seated pose after a vigorous practice.
Dayna Macy joined Yoga Journal in April 2001 as Communications Director. Just prior to Yoga Journal, she was the head of public relations for Salon.com. Before that, she ran the publicity department at various publishing companies including Collins Publishers San Francisco, Ten Speed Press, and Nolo Press. The results of her work have appeared in Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Oprah, Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, and on all major networks. She is also a musician and writer. She has performed at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, CA, and Sweetwater in Mill Valley, CA. Her essays have appeared in Yoga Journal, Self, Salon.com and other publications.
Macy holds her Bachelor of Arts degree from Drew University in Madison, N.J., and received a masters degree in philosophy from Brown University in Providence, R.I.
She's been studying yoga for over ten years. Her favorite pose of the moment is Half-Moon Pose.
Yoga Journal's deputy editor, Kaitlin Quistgaard, first stepped onto a yoga mat more than two decades ago and has been enjoying Triangle Pose ever since. Don't ask to see her Downward Facing Dog, though--a shoulder injury (compliments of an ill-timed maneuver on the flying trapeze) has all but eliminated that "resting pose" from her repertoire. Among her favorite memories is a taxi ride through the eerily deserted streets of Buenos Aires--the whole city had shut down as everyone watched a crucial World Cup match; she was headed to an Iyengar Yoga class packed with yoginis who preferred forward-bending to futbol.
Kaitlin lives in Sebastopol, California with her husband and daughter, a herd of deer, a flock of wild turkeys, and a bountiful organic vegetable garden. Before joining Yoga Journal, she was an editor at Salon.com. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Time, Wired, the Sunday Times, and other publications.
 A yoga practitioner for more than 20 years, Todd Jones has been an editor at Yoga Journal since 1997. He has edited the Asana (now Master Class) column for eight years and the Anatomy column since its beginning, as well as writing and editing a wide range of feature stories and departments and coaching the yoga practitioners at most of Yoga Journal's photo shoots.
Todd's fascination with Indian meditative practices began at age 13, when he discovered the writings of J. Krishnamurti. In college, at Princeton University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, he discovered Zen, vipassana, and yoga. Todd is also a devotee of the interactive dance form/spiritual practice called Contact Improvisation, a runner, a road cyclist, a massage therapist, a former chef, a (mostly) unabashed and (mostly) temperate gourmand, and a reading addict. He is extremely grateful to all the yoga teachers who have instructed and inspired him, and especially to his primary teacher, Kofi Busia.
One of Todd's favorite poses is Supta Virasana. Backbends are his most challenging asanas, and preparing for them with this pose makes them much easier.
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