Swami Brahmananda
He has been teaching Tantra & Yoga for more than 40 years globally. He was initiated and trained by Swami Muktananda. He has served as National Coordinator and Spiritual Director for SYDA Foundation. Later, he founded “The God Realization Ministry” which brought meditation into more than 200 churches in the US. He was the Retreat Director of Simple Peace Retreats in Assisi (Italy), which has been widely recognized as one of the top ten meditation retreats in the world.
Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer
She has been National Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; has been doing research on Temple Architecture of Odisha and Indian aesthetics; is a visiting Professor at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg, and Berne; author and editor of 22 books and more than 80 research articles. She has been teaching texts of Kashmir Shaivism in retreat-seminars in different institutions in India and Europe for the last 20 years. She is the recipient of the “Padma Shri” award in 2015.
Swami Dhyan Alok
He is the founder of the Genius Trust. He was initiated into “sanyaas” at the age of eight. He entered into a deep silence in solitude and sadhana for two long years. He felt within himself a new state of ecstasy and awakening. He stayed for five years in the Himalayas amidst a lot of monks and sanyasis. In 1996, he founded the Genius Temple---a mystic school where people radically transform their behavior, attitude, and lifestyle. He regularly conducts meditation workshops.
Devi Ma (Swami Bhairavi Ananda Saraswati)
She is the co-director and spiritual mother of the Mount Eliza Ashram near Melbourne, Australia. Devi Ma was the President of YA (Yoga Australia). She also sat on the Board of Directors of MA (Meditation Australia). A vibrant writer on spirituality and meditation, she was the managing editor of The Siddha Path publication. In her meditation courses, she brings the depth of her experience from over 40 years of practice and “sadhana”.
