Board of Advisors
Dr. David Frawley,
O.M.D., is recognized as one
of the leading Vedic scholars
in the world. A Doctor of
Oriental Medicine and an
authority in the field of Ayurveda,
Dr. Frawley has
worked extensively with
both Dr. Vasant Lad and Dr.
Deepak Chopra, and he is an advisor to Dr. Chopra’s
Center for Mind/Body Medicine. He is the
founder of the American Institute of Vedic Studies
and has written numerous books on Ayurveda,
Vedic astrology and mythology, and yoga philosophy
and practice, including Ayurveda: Nature’s
Medicine, Ayurveda and Yoga, and The
Yoga of Herbs.
Dr. Akhilesh Sharma,
B.A.M.S., N.D., Ph.D., is
an Ayurvedic physician at
his clinic in New Delhi with
his wife, Dr. Minakshi
Sharma, a specialist in Ayurvedic
Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Sharma
serves as Chief Physician
and Director of Research and Development for
Multani Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of over
400 Ayurvedic medicines and herbal products.
He is Ayurvedic Advisor to the Minister of
Health in New Delhi and has received the Dhanvantari
Award and the Chikitsa Shiromani Award
for his contributions to the field of Ayurveda. 
Dr. Liladhar Gupta, B.Sc.,
B.A.M.S., is a fourth generation
Ayurvedic physician
from Vrindaban in
northern India. Dr. Gupta
was Director of the Herbal
Medicare Center and Senior
Physician at Prem Miketan
Ashram in Jaipur. He taught
at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies in Australia
and currently directs a team of Indian physicians
at Dhanvantari Dham, his own research,
education, and healing center near Delhi.
Yogini Shambhavi is a modern day
mystic, teacher of Vedanta and
spiritual guide. She draws one to the
deeper “Yogic Reality” awakening
the Divine feminine power within
our own hearts and minds, allowing
its benevolent grace to flow into our
daily life experiences. Co- Director
of the American Institute of Vedic
Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, she leads spiritual retreats,
Ayurvedic training programs, conferences and well-being
workshops around the world. Yogini Shambhavi has written
two bestselling books on the Goddess, Yogini: Unfolding
the Goddess Within and Yogic Secrets of the Dark Goddess:
Lightning Dance of the Supreme Shakti.
Swami Sitaramananda is from the
classical Sivananda tradition of
Yoga tradition from India. A gifted
teacher of yoga and meditation, she has
been teaching for more than twenty-five
years In India, Canada, Bahamas, and
Asia and is the director of the Sivananda
Ashram in Grass Valley, CA. Swami Sitaramananda was ordained in 1985 as a sannyasin in the lineage of Saraswati, one of the ten classical monastic orders founded in India. She is a direct disciple of Swami Vishnu-devananda, who is the disciple of Master Sivananda. She holds a degree in Jyotish (Vedic astrology) from the American College of Vedic astrology and provides counsel to her students.
Didi Ananda Lalita is the director of
Ananda Dhiira ashram at Penn Valley,
CA. Originally from Taiwan, she is a
sanyasini of Ananda Marga (Sanskrit
language for “The Path of Bliss), a
worldwide spiritual and social nonprofit
organization dedicated to Self-
Realization & Service to Humanity.
Didi received her ministerial training
in the Science of Intuitional Practice in India in the early
1980s, and has been teaching meditation and promoting
yogic sattvic lifestyle in different parts of the world for over
27 years. While pursuing enlightenment as the highest human
treasure, she is dedicated to a life of service and to sharing
the wisdom and beauty of spiritual life to all seekers.