Erin Vinacco, gifted at teaching both children and adults, is a teacher in the Ananda Living Wisdom School at Ananda Village.
Sundara and Nandadevi Traymar
Sundara (Greg) Traymar is the International Director of Sharing Nature Worldwide and has been personally trained by world renowned author Joseph Bharat Cornell. Sundara is a gifted and inspiring teacher and wins friends wherever he travels. Since moving to Ananda Village in 2008, his deep joy has been helping people understand spiritual concepts in clear and compelling ways. He has … Read More
Brahmachari Lakshmi
Part of the leadership and teaching team in Ananda Palo Alto for about 8 years, Lakshmi is also an English teacher and conflict mediator at a local high school, where she merges the teachings of yoga and academia.

Brahmachari Prashad
Bio coming soon!

Brahmachari Sagar
Brahmachari Sagar resides in the Ananda Monastery located at Ananda Village in Northern California and serves Ananda’s Online Ministry. Born into a family of kriya yogis, Sagar read Paramhansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi at a young age, an influence that culminated in his decision to serve Yogananda’s mission through Ananda. Sagar led Ananda’s work in Mumbai for about five … Read More

Jitendra Guindon
Jitendra Guindon is a certified Ananda Yoga and Meditation Teacher with Yoga Alliance. He serves as the assistant director of Online with Ananda, home of Ananda’s Virtual community, online courses, and live broadcasts. Through Online with Ananda, he shares the ancient teachings of yoga as brought by Paramhansa Yogananda and acts as a spiritual counselor to hundreds of truth seekers … Read More

Peter Van Houten, M.D.
Dr. Peter is a graduate of University of California San Francisco Medical School and founder of the Sierra Family Medical Clinic, an award-winning rural community medical clinic near Ananda Village in Northern California. As the Clinic’s Medical Director, Peter has been instrumental in bringing new and highly effective tools in Behavioral Health to patients in need. In 2009 Dr. Peter … Read More

Murali Venkatrao
Murali Venkatrao is the Director of Yoga Teacher Training at the Ananda Institute of Living Yoga. The Institute is an RYS 200 and RYS 300 registered school. Born in India, he practiced yoga there as early as when he was eight years old. Murali has studied different variations of Hatha Yoga, both in India and the US. He has been … Read More

Asha Nayaswami
About Asha Nayaswami: a brief biography Asha was a spiritual seeker since her early youth. While studying at Stanford University in 1969, she heard Swami Kriyananda speak for the first time. “I knew the moment he walked into the room that he possessed the consciousness I had long been seeking.” She soon became a founding member of the new community … Read More

Nayaswami Maria
Maria McSweeney came to Ananda in 1976 and worked on the Ananda Farm. In 1986, Swami Kriyananda asked Maria and her husband Ananta to direct the Ananda community in Sacramento, where they served for 23 years as ministers and community managers. In 2009, Maria and Ananta were asked to return to Ananda Farm at Ananda Village to restore it to … Read More