Rolf gates, Director of the Kripalu School of Yoga, is a leading voice in contemporany yoga, and his work is used as a resource for yoga students and teachers worldwide. A former US Army Ranger abd social worker specializing in addiction, Rolf brings his eclectic background to his teaching and life.

Gates divides his book of 365 daily meditations into 8 sections, corresponding to the eight-limbed path of yoga. The author's intention is to give readers a way to integrate yoga's minndfulness with everyday life, to provide a deeoening beyond the physical practice of yoga. As a yoga teacher he observed that his students needed companion to help facilitate this deepening; Meditations from the Mat provides such a companion.