Durga Ma
Modern American Mystic

Durga Ma's education began in a small mining town in Missouri. She spent three years on scholarship completing her BA in piano and coral conducting at the University of Missouri before completing her MA at San Francisco State University. She 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.

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 guidance to meet each person’s needs and aims. Her students represent various religions as well as those seeking Truth outside organized religion.

“The most essential guidance you can ever receive from a spiritual master or teacher will always have to do with how to align with the divine that you really are—in your heart, your mind, and your actions. From here, everything else follows. — Durga Ma

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