Georg Feuerstein was born in Germany shortly after World War II, and conducted his postgraduate research in Indian philosophy at the University of Durham in England. He is the founder and director of the Yoga Research and Education Center in northern California. Georg Feuerstein is the author of more than 30 books, including Living Yoga, The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, Tantra: Path of Ecstasy, and The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali. He is the editor of Yoga World newsletter and the annual International Journal of Yoga Therapy.