Catherine Ghosh is an artist, writer, mother and editor of Journey of the Heart: An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry by Women (2014) and Where Journeys Meet: The Voice of Women’s Poetry (2015) She has been an active practitioner and student in the Bhakti Yoga tradition since 1986, studying under Damodar Goswami of Jagannatha Puri, India, and later trained in Svarupa-asanas at Master Yoga Academy in California, with Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati. Catherine is co-founder of The Secret Yoga Institute, together with her life partner, Graham M. Schweig, and develops teaching materials for yoga workshops and has served as a contributing editor for Integral Yoga Magazine (2009-13.) 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 community she founded in 2012. Her forthcoming books are Bhakti Blossoms: A Contemporary Collection of Vaishnavi Poetry, and Poetry as a Spiritual Practice: Embracing the Awakened Woman. A lover of nature, Catherine divides her time between her two homes in Florida and Virginia, delighting in painting, quilting, and writing poetry, among other artistic activities. www.catherineghosh.com