Siddha Podcast 0007, 40 min

Reverend Ann Sarasvati Hayes shares why meditation and Kriya Yoga practices, as taught by Paramahansa Yogananda, Roy Eugene Davis, and Ellen Grace O’Brian, are highly beneficial for people of all religious and non-religious backgrounds. She highlights how these practices help in uncertain times and when the mind gets caught up in worry and anxiety.

Bio of Rev. Ann Sarasvati Hayes
Rev. Ann Sarasvati Hayes has studied with Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian since 2000 and was ordained in the Kriya Yoga tradition in 2007. She is a senior Kriya Yoga teacher at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment. Rev. Hayes is active as a teacher, spiritual counselor, and as an assistant producer of The Yoga Hour podcast. She is a retired registered nurse and former director of several nonprofit health organizations in San Jose, California. Together with her husband, Rev. Jeff Collins, she is the co-founder of the Santa Rosa Kriya Yoga Meditation Group, established in 2014.