Founder of Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga (baronbaptiste.com), Baron Baptiste is known for his boot camps, teacher training sessions, and “Personal Revolution” weekends. In 1995, he became the NFL Philadelphia Eagles’ peak performance specialist, and in 1999 opened Baptiste Power Yoga Institute in Boston. He is the author of several books and videos, including Journey into Power and 40 Days to Personal Revolution. See his advice on how women can get their men to take up yoga in “Get Your Man on the Mat,” featured in May’s issue of YogaLife.

More than 20 years ago, Seane Corn was introduced to yoga by Jivamukti founders Sharon Gannon and David Life. Corn teaches a Vinyasa-centered class at her base, Sacred Movement in Santa Monica, California, and around the globe (seanecorn.com). Corn is increasingly focused on yoga off the mat: She is National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising money and awareness. Her “Essentials” column, demonstrating instructions for three of the most fundamental poses, can be found in the Summer issue of YogaLife magazine.

Dr. Sat-Bir Khalsa, a graduate of the University of Toronto, is an instructor at Harvard Medical School. His current project in the Division of Sleep Medicine is the study of yoga as a treatment for insomnia. (We reported some of the results in “Sleep Right, Starting Tonight” in the May issue of YogaLife magazine.) He is also currently studying yoga treatments for diabetes patients, working with colleagues at Harvard and at the Vivekananda Research Foundation in Bangalore, India. Dr. Khalsa takes annual trips to India to reinforce his focus on mind-body medicine.

Co-founders of Intelligent Yoga (intelligentyoga.com), this New York City-based husband-and-wife team has more than 20 years of yoga teaching and fitness training between them. Both teach privately and at Equinox gyms in New York City, at the Pura Vida Spa in Costa Rica, and on Regent cruise ships.

Michael Lechonczak has been working in Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Anusara styles. He contributed much of the workout advice in “Lean, Mean Yoga Machine” in the May issue of YogaLife.

Robin Whitney Levine is an Anusara-affiliated teacher and certified personal trainer who brings Western disciplines like Pilates and strength training into her teaching. She also combines aromatherapy with meditation techniques.

Educated in western medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf is now the dean of faculty of Vedic Medicines at the Maharishi Vedic University in Iowa. She has studied ayurvedic medicine, the natural health practices of ancient India, for 20 years and treated more than 8,000 patients. Dr. Lonsdorf is the author of The Ageless Woman and A Woman’s Best Medicine.  “Dr. Nancy” helped inform our feature on ayurvedic eating in the Summer issue of YogaLife.