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Durga Ma's education began in a small mining town in Missouri. After being "discovered" by the director of the college of music at the University of Missouri, she spent three years on scholarship completing her bachelors degree in education and music (piano and choral conducting) before completing her masters degree at San Francisco State University. She has performed in concert and recital, is an elementary, secondary and adult education credentialed teacher, and has taught in the psychology department at Antioch College West in San Francisco, California.
After owning her own business and raising her two children, she simplified her life in order to take up the full time study and practice of an ancient spiritual path of Eastern origin (shaktipat kundalini yoga) which is passed down through a lineage of spiritual masters. Having successfully completed all the stages of this path over a period of several years, she was appointed to teach her teacher's advanced students in the United States.
For many years Durga Ma lived in solitude meditating eighteen hours each day and studying ancient Sanskrit writings. Her extraordinary gift for comprehending the inner meanings of these great works, and her own meditative experience have given rise to her extraordinary grasp of the spiritual path.
She has written and published on the subject of meditation and the spiritual path, and has translated various texts from the original Sanskrit into English specifically for the Western reader. Realizing that most spiritual and religious writings and oral teachings have traditionally been carried by and addressed to men, she interprets these teachings for women in current time in Western culture.
Her many years of study and experience have equipped her with an amazing ability for refining ancient teachings for access to a modern world without sacrificing essentials and authenticity. She stresses empowerment through conscious choice, and personally tailors her spiritual guidance to meet each person’s needs and aims.
Her students represent various religions as well as those seeking Truth outside organized religion.
Durga Ma occupies all her time her time in meditation, study, writing, guiding initiates and students, and responding to their emails. Her life is sustained by the generosity of her students and well-wishers.
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