Annie Mahon Annie Mahon is an author, ordained Buddhist mindfulness teacher and founder of the Circle Yoga Cooperative in Washington, D.C. Annie has always enjoyed writing about her life, from journalistic pursuits at the University of Michigan to technical papers for IBM and Oracle. She has been writing about mindfulness, parenting, stress and yoga since 2004. Her blog, rawmindfulness.com, is a hit with the mindfulness and yoga community and led to a book of Annie’s collected essays, Words to be With. Annie’s newest book, Things I Did When I was Hangry (Parallax Press, September 2015), documents Annie’s search for sanity in her eating disordered family life, and reveals how mindfulness helped her go beyond the search for perfection and learn to love the moment as it is. Annie holds certifications in yoga, focusing and massage therapy and dabbles in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), as well as a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science and a Masters in Religious Studies. When not visiting her children, teaching, traveling the world with her husband, drinking Jasmine tea with honey, writing or walking her dogs, she practices yoga and mindfulness with her community in DC.