eshe Michael Roach is a fully ordained American monk who received his geshe (Doctor of Theology) degree from Sera Mey Monastery in India after 22 years of study there and in the United States with his root Lama, Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin. Geshe Michael has been teaching Buddhism since 1981. He is a scholar of Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Russian, and has translated and published numerous works. Geshe Michael received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, and worked in New York City as a director of a large diamond firm for many years.

Geshe Michael is the founder of the Asian Classics Institute, the Asian Classics Input Project (probably the world's largest database of ancient Asian manuscripts), Godstow Retreat Center, the Yoga Studies Institute, The Enlightened Business Institute, and the Diamond Mountain University and Retreat Center. Geshe Michael is the author of several books including "The Garden," "The Tibetan Book of Yoga," "The Diamond Cutter," and a new translation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra. He recently completed a 3-year isolated meditation retreat in the Arizona desert.

hristie McNally has studied yoga from some of the world's most renowned masters, and has trained in several major Tibetan monasteries. She is a Tibetan and Sanskrit translator and textual expert with the Asian Classics Input Project, and recently completed a 3-year deep retreat in the Arizona desert.

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