Meditation Class Instructors

Meet some of our meditation class instructors.  All are students of Meditation Master Sri Chinmoy

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Khipra Nichols

(March Meditation Workshop)

Khipra Nichols is a Professor of Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, and has been practicing meditation under the guidance of Sri Chinmoy for over 30 years.

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Natabara Rollosson

Natabara has studied and meditated with spiritual Master Sri Chinmoy for over 20 years. He consults for the United Nations and recently co-directed and produced Challenging Impossibility, which premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival

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Dr. Ganapati J. Coleman

(Adventures in Consciousness Workshop)

Ganapati is currently a principal member of the research staff at Charles Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA. He has been a student of Sri Chinmoy for over 30 years and attributes his own success in life to the “deep spiritual grace and influence of this most remarkable teacher and friend”.

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Palash Bosgang

Palash has been studying meditation with Sri Chinmoy for the past sixteen years. An avid runner, Palash resides in the Woodstock area in upstate New York where she has been offering meditation classes and workshops for the past twelve years while working as a librarian at Bard College.

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Salil Wilson

Born in Australia Salil has lived in New York since 1990. He was first introduced to Sri Chinmoy in Melbourne in 1984, at the age of 19 and shortly after became a student of his. Salil moved to New York in 1990 and has been closely involved in the organization of numerous athletic and cultural events. In 2004 Sri Chinmoy asked Salil to serve as the Executive Director of the World Harmony Run, a global running relay. He currently serves in this capacity.

Visit Salil's blog about meditation

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Ashrita Furman

Ashrita lives in New York and has practiced daily meditation for the last 35 years. He has set more than 300 Guinness World Records using the power of meditation to increase his inner strength.

More about Ashrita

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Jayashri Wyatt

Jayashri recently moved to New York from California to work at a SoHo-based arts organization that produces live theatre, concerts and television programming committed to human rights and social justice issues. She is also one of the organizers of the bi-annual Songs of the Soul music concerts in New York City, and has been a student of Sri Chinmoy since 1998.

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Sujantra McKeever

Sujantra is the owner of the Pilgrimage of the Heart Yoga Studio in San Diego. In the last 20 years, he has delivered over one thousand lectures on meditation and yoga in 25 countries.

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Padmasini Guillet

Padmasini is from Montpellier, France and has practiced meditation for 30 years under the guidance of Sri Chinmoy, and has been teaching meditation for the last 27 years.

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Devashishu Torpy

Devashishu is from London, England. He practised meditation for 31 years under the guidance of Sri Chinmoy and has given free courses on meditation to thousands of people worldwide.

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Pradhan Balter

Chiropractor and computer consultant, and the owner/manager of a successful
restaurant in Chicago, Pradhan's entertaining and down-to-earth approach to meditation makes the subject easy and accessible. Pradhan
has been a student of Sri Chinmoy since 1971.

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Gangane Stefansson

Gangane is the director of UNICEF in Iceland, is an avid runner having completed 7 marathons and 2 ultramarathons. Gangane has been a student of Sri Chinmoy since 1995, and has been teaching meditation for the last 7 years.

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Aditya Nowotny

Aditya is from Hamburg, Germany and has practiced meditation for many years under the guidance of Sri Chinmoy. In the past 25 years he has given free courses on meditation to over 100,000 people in more than 250 cities across 4 continents.

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Ashirvad Zaiantchick

Ashirvad is from Brazil, and practiced meditation for 12 years under the guidance of Sri Chinmoy, and has given free courses on meditation to thousands of people in over 25 countries around the world.

 


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