Margot Anand is the author of The Art of Everyday Ecstasy (Broadway Books). An internationally acclaimed teacher of Tantra, Margot is also the author of the best-selling books The Art of Sexual Ecstasy and The Art of Sexual Magic (Putnam Penguin).

Margot Anand has appeared on many national (CNN, CNBC, ABC) and international (France, Germany, England) television and radio programs and has been featured as a keynote speaker at many prestigious national and international conferences (Association of EIuman Psychology, Body & Soul). She has recently addressed the topic of Sex, Power and Politics at such formidable conferences as the State of the World Forum, a meeting of world leaders and economists, which has featured First Lady Hillary Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev, and the ''Outside the Box" conference presented by Young Presidents' Organization.

Margot was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about tantra yoga, and upcoming quotes and interviews with Margot were recently published by TIME, Conscious Life, and Cosmopolitan magazines. Her recently taped interview with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove is currently airing June 1999) on the "Thinking Allowed" public television series.

Margot is adjunct faculty at Deepak Chopra's seminars and conferences and has taught at Dr. Dean Ornish's annual retreat for heart patients.

A native of France, Margot Anand received her degrees from the Sorbonne in Paris. She has had extensive training in Gestalt Therapy, Hindu and Buddhist Tantra (having studied with several spiritual Masters including the great mystic Osho in India), bioenergetics, massage, meditation, Arica and Integral Yoga. Over the past 15 years, Margot developed and taught the "Love and Ecstasy Training," a method of healing and enhancing sexuality to its ultimate potential: Ecstasy. Margot is the founder of eight SkyDancing Tantra Institutes worldwide.

Margot Anand has brought the teachings of Tantra beyond the bedroom and into one's everyday life. She is pioneering a new "Yoga of Living," in which she coaches people in designing ecstatic lifestyles. Margot's teaching style is a rare synthesis of French erotic humor, American pragmatism, and Indian mysticism. She is particularly appreciated for her ability to bring healing, lightness, fun, and passion to the workshop atmosphere.