Amir Mourad is an Egyptian mystic, yogi, and spiritual teacher. Beginning the practice of yoga, he immediately became deeply absorbed into the discipline. Upon coming to awakening and a series of inner transformations during a six-year period of asceticism, he founded the Shunya Yoga system. With a blend of sensitivity and intensity, as well as compassionate wisdom, his work is an effort to assist social transformation through the transformation of consciousness at the level of the individual.