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Dada Vedaprajinananda
Biography
Dada Vedaprajinananda is a meditation teacher, writer, and a singer-songwriter. Dada was born in New York City in 1946 and graduated from Colgate University in 1968 with high honors.
Shortly after graduating, Dada hitch-hiked to California attracted by the allure of the “counter-culture” and the then-flourishing hippie movement. In California Dada met an Indian monk who taught him meditation and Dada became an avid practitioner of yoga and meditation. After only six months of yoga practice, Dada left his job as library assistant at Stanford University and became a full-time volunteer for the Ananda Marga yoga society. In the 1970s, Dada worked for the society in Los Angeles, Wichita, Kansas and in Washington, DC.
Since 1977 he has served as a monk and has taught in more than 30 countries around the world. During the 1980s, he traveled to India frequently where he met and studied under his spiritual teacher, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.
Dada is an experienced editor and writer. He founded New Renaissance magazine (www.ru.org) in 1990 as well as two newspapers in the 1970s. He is the author of The Wisdom of Yoga, an introduction to yoga philosophy and From Brooklyn to Benares and Back, a memoir. He has written numerous magazine and journal articles, and his essay “Neo-Humanism, Globalization and World Futures” was published in UNESCO’s Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems.
Dada’s yoga teachings and written work are complemented with his music. In the last 12 years, Dada has issued three CDs of original songs and one CD of music for children. His music blends the rhythms of Western folk and country music with the themes of Eastern mysticism, ecology, and social transformation.
He is currently based in the Midwest of the US and is working on a revised edition of The Wisdom of Yoga, spiritual audio podcasts and a new music CD.
Shortly after graduating, Dada hitch-hiked to California attracted by the allure of the “counter-culture” and the then-flourishing hippie movement. In California Dada met an Indian monk who taught him meditation and Dada became an avid practitioner of yoga and meditation. After only six months of yoga practice, Dada left his job as library assistant at Stanford University and became a full-time volunteer for the Ananda Marga yoga society. In the 1970s, Dada worked for the society in Los Angeles, Wichita, Kansas and in Washington, DC.
Since 1977 he has served as a monk and has taught in more than 30 countries around the world. During the 1980s, he traveled to India frequently where he met and studied under his spiritual teacher, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.
Dada is an experienced editor and writer. He founded New Renaissance magazine (www.ru.org) in 1990 as well as two newspapers in the 1970s. He is the author of The Wisdom of Yoga, an introduction to yoga philosophy and From Brooklyn to Benares and Back, a memoir. He has written numerous magazine and journal articles, and his essay “Neo-Humanism, Globalization and World Futures” was published in UNESCO’s Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems.
Dada’s yoga teachings and written work are complemented with his music. In the last 12 years, Dada has issued three CDs of original songs and one CD of music for children. His music blends the rhythms of Western folk and country music with the themes of Eastern mysticism, ecology, and social transformation.
He is currently based in the Midwest of the US and is working on a revised edition of The Wisdom of Yoga, spiritual audio podcasts and a new music CD.