Mark Mulligan was born in rural Ireland, but has travelled all his adult life; working and living in Europe, Asia and Africa. He left a successful corporate career to devote himself to his spiritual development.

Mark has had a meditation practice for over 20 years but more recently became passionate about his asana (physical) yoga practice. Mark is a certified asthanga yoga teacher and massage therapist/instructor. He has worked extensively with most of the well known Asthanga Vinysaa Yoga teachers; Pattabhi Jois, Sharath Rangaswamy, David Swenson, and Nancy Gilgoff. He has also studied many different types of bodywork around the world in Thailand, Australia, India, France and England.

Mark lives his winters in India where he runs retreats and holidays. He travels/works as a yoga teacher and massage therapist/trainer during the rest of the year.

Mark is passionate about yoganu and the transformational effect it can have on men's lives. He attended his first Hot Nude Yoga class with Aaron Star in new York in 2004 and was blow away by it. "I had always found yoga to be a very personal practice, connecting with that still place within. HNY expands on this, helping you to relate to others from this space, enabling you to take your yoga practice off your mat and out into the world". Mark studied/worked extensively with Aaron before setting up Yoganu.

You can contact Mark at yoganu@hotmail.co.uk

Richard travels extensively around the world in order to explore yoga in different spiritual contexts and learn from many inspirational yoga practitioners. In the last few years he has travelled to India, Thailand, Costa Rica, Vancouver and Hawaii to study with internationally renowned yoga teachers. He is soon to come to the end of his 3 year teaching diploma with The British Wheel of Yoga, and has also completed teacher training courses in Hawaii and Costa Rica and has also studied Thai Yoga Massage in Thailand. He is currently teaching regular classes in London and Birmingham, and at retreats around the world.

Richard's first encounter with naked yoga was in summer 2005 at a HNY workshop in London. He later went on, to join Aaron Star at the Costa Rica retreat, which opened up the start of a very exciting journey. His experiences with this type of practice enabled him to discover an inner happiness and peace he had not known before. It was then that he decided to share with others the gift of yoga. His playful curiosity towards yoga goes hand in hand with the teachings of Tantra.

"I am fascinated by the uniqueness of yoga to the individual. My aim is to help people to explore for themselves the many benefits yoga brings and also to connect with, experience, and sense for themselves the wonders of the human body and mind.

I believe that yoga is a personal journey we decide to take and the various styles of yoga are different pathways used to help us to reach the same goal. I aim to encourage individuals to look internally and find stillness and peace within, helping people to guide themselves on their own personal journey, that is truthfully right for them."

Follow Richard's yogic journey: www.yogamanifest.com

You can contact Richard at richardwilliamgeorge@hotmail.com