About our Authors

Paramhansa Yogananda

was the first yoga master of India to permanently live and teach in the West. Yogananda, born in 1893 in Gorakhpur, India, arrived in America in 1920, and traveled throughout the United States on what he called his 'spiritual campaigns'. His enthusiastic audiences filled the largest halls in America. Hundreds of thousands turned out to see the yogi...  Read More >

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Swami Kriyananda

a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda, is an internationally known author, lecturer, and composer. Widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on meditation and yoga, he has taught these principles and techniques to hundreds of thousands of students around the world. His best-selling book The Path: My Life with Yogananda...  Read More >

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Derek Bell

Derek Bell (1935-2002) was the legendary harpist and orchestral arranger for the five-time Grammy award winning group the Chieftains. The classically trained Bell joined The Chieftains in 1972, after a career as harpist with the Northern Ireland BBC Orchestra. Bell has several solo albums to his credit, in addition to the more than thirty recordings of the The Chieftains. He...   Read More >

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Barbara Bingham

is the exceptional photographer and editor of the The Crystal Hermitage Gardens, and also contributed an extensive number of photographs to Space, Light & Harmony: The Story of the Crystal Hermitage  Read More >

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Satyaki Kraig Brockschmidt

is the author of The Harmonium Handbook. He offers his musical and technical experience with the Indian harmonium, its history, and details on how to play and care for the instrument. A former design engineer, in his nearly nine years at Microsoft Corporation, he was highly respected throughout the software industry as a bestselling author.  Read More >

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Sue Cooper

Inspired by teachings Paramhansa Yogananda, and the writings of several of his disciples including Swami Kriyananda, Sue Cooper began chronicling her own spiritual experiences in the form of poetry. Touching Soul is her first book.  Read More >

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Anandi Cornell

is a wonderful teacher and a loving and insightful counselor who has been sharing the teachings of meditation for the last 30 years. An Ananda minister since 1980, Anandi has directed and taught in many of Ananda's guest and outreach programs, including the Palo Alto Ananda Community, Ananda's membership training program, and The Expanding Light.  Read More >

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