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[[File:Linda Johnsen 2009-05-21 08.jpg|thumb|Linda Johnsen]]

'''Linda Johnsen''' (born 1954 in Chicago) is an author on [[yoga]] and other aspects of [[Hinduism]]. She earned a master's degree in Eastern Studies<ref name="meditation essay" /> and did post-graduate work in [[Comparative Religion]]s at the [[Graduate Theological Union]] in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]. In addition she spent decades studying Eastern traditions with [[Shakta]] and [[Shaivite]] [[yogis]] in India and North America.

==Bibliography==
Johnsen's essays have appeared in numerous magazines including [[Yoga International]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Folan|first=Lilias M.|title=Lilias! Yoga Gets Better with Age|year=2005|publisher=[[Rodale, Inc.|Rodale]]|isbn=978-1-59486-070-6|pages=226|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kB5A-peO5mUC&pg=PA226&dq=%22Linda+Johnsen%22+yoga&hl=en&ei=VgL-S-itGIK88gbSi_XwDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22Linda%20Johnsen%22%20yoga&f=false}}</ref>[[Yoga Journal]],<ref name="meditation essay">{{cite journal|last=Johnsen|first=Linda|title=Meditation Doesn't Have To Be Boring|journal=[[Yoga Journal]]|issue=November/December 1988|pages=18–25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6esDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18&dq=%22Linda+Johnsen%22+yoga&hl=en&ei=NwL-S_mtNIL88Ab12bTtDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Linda%20Johnsen%22%20yoga&f=false|accessdate=27 May 2010|issn=0191-0965}}</ref> Yoga Plus, and Mountain Astrologer, as well as in many anthologies. Her books include:
*''Daughters of the Goddess: The Women Saints of India'' (1994)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Harding|first=Elizabeth U.|title=Holy Mothers (book review)|journal=Yoga Journal|issue=January/February 1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-kDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA112&dq=%22Linda+Johnsen%22+yoga&hl=en&ei=NwL-S_mtNIL88Ab12bTtDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFcQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22Linda%20Johnsen%22%20yoga&f=false|accessdate=27 May 2010|page=112|issn=0191-0965}}</ref>
*''The Living Goddess'' (1999)
*''Meditation is Boring? Putting Life in Your Spiritual Practice'' (2000)
*''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hinduism'' (2002)
*''Alpha Teach Yourself Yoga'' (2003)
*''A Thousand Suns'' (2004)
*''Fearless Living: Yoga and Faith'' (editor, 2005)<ref>{{cite book|last=Rama|first=Swami|title=Fearless living: yoga and faith|year=2005|publisher=Himalayan Institute Press|isbn=978-0-89389-251-7|pages=iii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CVOnmKPr2YUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Linda+Johnsen%22+yoga&hl=en&ei=VgL-S-itGIK88gbSi_XwDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Johnsen&f=false}}</ref>
*''Lost Masters: Sages of Ancient Greece'' (2006)
*''Kirtan! Chanting as a Spiritual Path'' (2007) with Maggie Jacobus
*''A Thousand Suns: Designing Your Future With [[Vedic Astrology]]''

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703074704/http://www.himalayaninstitute.org/About/AboutInteriorContent.aspx?id=1505 Year-Long Meditation Faculty & Guest Speakers], Himalayan Institute.
* [https://www.amazon.com/Linda-Johnsen/e/B001ILMBIE/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 Linda Johnsen on Amazon]

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