Rosalind Atkinson is the publisher, editor and main designer for Silver Snake Press. Born and educated in Aotearoa (New Zealand), she is a scholar of English Literature, with an MA in mystic poetry from Victoria University, and has presented around the world and contributed to academic and general publications. After careers including a costume illustrator on the Hobbit films, a sailor on youth empowerment tall ships, and an environmental activist, including on the Rainbow Warrior III, Rosalind realised we need to learn how to honour nature in our own forms before we can care about it in other forms.

Inspired since a young age by the visionary publishing of William Morris, William Blake, and handmade books, Rosalind shares their desire to bring life-changing, beautiful books with an independent spirit to the people.

Mark Whitwell was born in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand and educated at Auckland University. He first travelled to India in 1970, navigating his way through and meeting known and unknown saints and sages in the search for useful teachings. In 1973, he began what would be a life-long study with Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989) and his son, T.K.V. Desikachar (1938–2016), of Chennai, India. Mark witnessed their great friendship and collaboration with J. Krishnamurti (1895–1986) and U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007), and dedicated his life to furthering the resulting communication in his own form in modern times. He lives in Los Angeles and Auckland, and is the author of Yoga of Heart: The Healing Power of Intimate Connection, The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy, and the Hridayayogasutra, as well as the editor and contributor to T.K.V. Desikachar’s The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice. Mark is committed to clarifying the essence of teachings so they are relevant and accessible to everyday people while retaining their potency, and to deconstructing disempowering hierarchies. The founder of a non-profit organisation dedicated to bringing peace practices to troubled regions, Mark facilitates gatherings of friends around the world, helping people to connect with their breath and “stop looking, start living.” 

Andy Raba is a writer and activist currently living in Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. He holds a Master’s degree in English Literature specialising in the visionary science fiction of Philip K. Dick. As a university (college) tutor, Andy has seen first-hand the suffering young people experience as they navigate achievement systems and relationships, and is committed to sharing useful words that enable everyone to enjoy the sublimity of a free life of intimacy, friendship, and adventure. Andy works in a suburban library and also teaches Yoga in the city, helping people to connect with their autonomous life through breath. His writing works to reinvest the mundane with value.

Domagoj Orlic (born in 1970 in Croatia) practices and teaches Yoga of Heart as he was taught by his teacher and Heart friend Mark Whitwell. His teaching method focuses on developing a personal practice as the very Heart of Yoga that helps the practicing individual to get anchored in her own Heart. As an invisible point of union it is the inexhaustible source of our infinite capacity to feel. True intimacy with this centre of our humanity reveals the person’s true nature as the powerful peace and peaceful power of a life lived straight from the Heart, and uncompromisingly for the Heart. This soft-heartedness or hearty-softness then becomes the basis of a creative relational life as the real and ultimate purpose of practicing Yoga in the first place. Domagoj teaches the full spectrum of traditional Yoga practices in all its applications, from therapeutic Yoga to yoga tantra and understands Yoga primarily as a way of enjoying Life and the deepening of intimacy with oneself, other human being and the Whole of Existence that we utterly are as sensitive, compassionate and spiritual beings with a Heart.

Susanne Daeppen is a Yogini, Bukoh Dancer, Author and Educator based out of her own studio, ‘Dakini Dance Space’, in Nidau, Switzerland. She is the author of Niceland, an avant-garde photography exploring expressions of the human body in the wild landscapes of Iceland. She teaches classes, retreats, and workshop programmes in Switzerland, Italy, Iceland and New York.

Colin Boyd

Born in South London, United Kingdom, Colin is a master bodyworker and healer and a devotee for over 30 years of the world-renowned spiritual master and world teacher Adi Da Samraj (1939–2008). Colin has studied devotional yoga, hatha yoga, Qigong and sacred theatre. His writing and teaching work focus on spiritual conductivity, sacred dance, mime theatre, as well as many other areas of human growth and spiritual practice.

Colin has been a keen student of various forms of dance and mime theatre for over 25 years. He began his education in dance in the United Kingdom in 1984 with a dance group called the Original Phoenix. In 1987 Colin worked with a UK-based mime company Black Mime Theatre, before going on to create and perform his own mime shows. He went on to teach his own style of dance/mime theatre workshops to children and adults throughout the UK, Fiji and the US.

Colin is currently based between Fiji and the UK.

“He presents some of the oldest forms of Traditional Qigong Practices in a new light, one based on a more feeling awareness of the essence of these practices so that rather than just being a sterile physical exercise they become a process of allowing the body to deeply feel in touch with what he calls “The Radiant Field of All-Pervading Energy”. Of course the various postures and movements are not the point of his book, but as Colin goes on to describe they are a guide to allowing the body to open to Intrinsic Touch Energy as a deepening practice of feeling into and beyond our conventional limits.” — Paul Litchfield and Jane Yang of the Australian Chi Gong Therapy Centre.