Catherine Ghosh is an artist, writer, mother and editor of Journey of the Heart: An Anthology of Spiriutal Poetry by Women (2014). She has been an active practitioner and student in the Bhakti Yoga tradition since 1986, studying under Damodar Goswami of Jagannatha Puri, Orissa, India, and later trained in Svarupa-asanas with Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati in La Jolla, California. Catherine is co-founder of The Secret Yoga Institute, together with her life partner, Graham M. Schweig, PhD, and develops teaching materials for yoga workshops, such as meditation videos, which have been shown at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Catherine has served as a contributing editor for Integral Yoga Magazineand is a regular contributor to Mantra, Yoga + Health Magazine She is passionate about inspiring women to share their spiritual insights and honor their valuable voices, and does so through a Women’s Spiritual Poetry Blog she founded in 2012. A lover of nature, Catherine divides her time between her two homes in Northern Florida and Southern Virginia, delighting in the mothering of her two sons, painting, quilting, and writing poetry, among other artistic activities. You may connect with her on Facebook or email. her.