A yoga teacher for over 20 years, Diana Alstad has taught yoga seminars with Joel Kramer and co-authored with him The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power.  She taught women's studies at Duke university and Yale,  where she received her Ph.D. She has trained in gestalt,  group process, and other growth oriented approaches, with a view towards synthesizing Western psychology with yoga and Eastern perspectives. Diana serves on the advisory board of the White Lotus Foundation.