Parvati Hansen
Kriyacharya, Ananda Minister, Raja Yoga Teacher, Director of the Janaka Foundation
What is a nayaswami?
Nayaswami Parvati is one of Ananda’s most widely traveled and experienced ministers. She and her husband, Pranaba, helped to create and direct Ananda centers in Palo Alto, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, and Assisi, Italy. She has been sharing Yogananda’s teachings for almost 40 years.
Parvati currently administers the Janaka Foundation at Ananda. She combines deep inwardness with a childlike delight in the spiritual teachings. Parvati exemplifies Yogananda’s definition of a yogi: A yogi is even-minded and cheerful at all times..
Staff Teachers
- Arya Cheng
- Brahmachari Dhananjaya Denholm
- Catherine Kairavi
- Diksha McCord
- Gyandev McCord
- Krishnadas LoCicero
- Mangala (Sue) Loper-Powers
- Mantradevi LoCicero
- Melody Hansen
- Sundara Traymar
- Trimurti Motyka
Guest Teachers
- Alba Simaku
- Amala Cathleen Elliott
- Annapurna DeLyle
- Atman Goering
- Badri Matlock
- Barbara Bingham
- Bhawani Isaacson
- Carianne James
- Dana Lynne Andersen
- David Kletter
- David Seybert
- Dayavati Barsic
- Devalila Veenhof
- Dhyan Garcia-Davis
- Dr. Peter Van Houten
- Erin Vinacco
- Ganesha
- Gayatri Kretzmann
- Irene Schulman
- Jaya Bottaro-Salisbury
- Jitendra Guindon
- Joseph Selbie
- Julie Roberts
- Karen Buckner
- Keshava Betts
- Keshava Taylor
- Lakshmi LaPine
- Maitri Jones
- Matthew Fredrickson
- Michele Tsihlas
- Miriam Rodgers
- Mukti Deranja
- Murali Venkatrao
- Nayaswami Devi
- Nayaswami Jaya
- Nayaswami Jyotish
- Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi Novak
- Nayaswami Maria
- Nayaswami Pranaba
- Nayaswami Pranaba and Nayaswami Parvati
- Nayaswami Premdas
- Nayaswami Sagar
- Nayaswami Sahaja
- Nicole DeAvilla
- Peter Sanjaya Kretzmann
- Saiganesh Sairaman
- Sambhava Burke
- Sanjan Thelen
- Shanti Rubenstone, M.D.
- Shyama Garcia Davis
- Therese Smith
- Tim Tschantz
- Tracy Anderson
- Uma Bottaro
- Vahini Sleighter
- Vivekadevi Noh-Kuhn
- Yudhisthira Doug Andrews
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