Jenny Beeken is the author of five books on yoga and related topics, including an earlier book on breathing Don't Hold Your Breath (2006). She read physics at university before finding that her path lay with yoga. She trained in India under B K S Iyengar and became principal yoga teacher at the White Eagle Lodge. Later she founded her own school, known as Inner Yoga. Her approach to yoga is focussed on the awareness that goes with the postures - and in this case with the breath. She is very well versed in the ancient traditions that underscore yoga. Recently she went on an extended Buddhist retreat