partner exercises in yoga lessons are often either meaningless, difficult, or too intimate. here is a beautifully illustrated and tested compilation of genuinely useful and applicable partner stretches and massage practices. they are presented in connection with the teaching of the shiatsu meridians, as well as other concepts in energetic body therapy. from his experience in over a thousand yoga classes, the author recommends making mindful touch a solid element of any yoga teaching. thomas propp was born in 1955. he grew up in berlin, germany. he is working as a yoga teacher in his own yoga center "yogalila" www.yogalila.de. his qualifications are: yoga teacher bdy/eyu, 1. dan aikido, shiatsu therapist. as a father of three children, he invented the "aikiyoga"-concept for teenage-aikido-yoga.