Greetings!

In late 2015, I earned an MSc degree in Yoga Therapy from Maryland University of Integrative Health. The knowledge gained from this course has added a deep therapeutic component to my extensive experience providing spiritual and lifestyle guidance to individuals over the past thirty years.

Strongly attracted to the spiritual life in my formative years, I trained as a yoga monk during 1981 at the Ananda Marga Training Center in Nepal. Since then I have used my time and energy for yoga and meditation teaching, pastoral and therapeutic care, and global service as international coordinator of AMURT. I have traveled extensively to over 90 countries, rubbing shoulders with people of all religions and skin-colors, celebrating the beauty of the human family.

Hence, I bring a lot of human experience to the therapeutic space, and an evolving set of skills to assist people with physiological, emotional and spiritual challenges.

I also teach two yoga philosophy and lifestyle classes as adjunct faculty at George Washington University in Washington, DC. For me, teaching is a sacred act that provides people a space and a time to deepen knowledge of themselves and the world around them. It offers tools and insights to make the act of living more meaningful and more successful.

My education and training (highlights):

  • Master of Science degree in Yoga Therapy from Maryland University of Integrative Health;
  • Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from Vermont College;
  • Yoga monk training at the Ananda Marga ashram in Kathmandu. This one-year intensive course included the philosophy, lifestyle and practices of Tantra Yoga;
  • One-year apprenticeship as a junior Yoga monk in the presence of the guru Anandamurti in Calcutta;
  • 200-hour yoga teacher certification at Ananda Village, California;
  • 40-hour course in therapeutic yoga through the Bihar School of Yoga Therapy;
  • 40-hour course in yoga therapy for depression and anxiety through Minded Institute.