Russill Paul is the producer of numerous best-selling mantra CDs and author of The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power of Music and Chant. He has taught Indian spirituality in graduate and post-graduate programs and at leading spiritual centers worldwide. Trained as a monk and yogi at an ashram in India, Russill is a pioneering figure who has been introducing the deeper dimensions of yoga to Western students for the past 25 years, primarily through mantra and music. Each year, he takes a select group of students to study and practice mantra with him in India.