Radical Awakening & Opening To The Heart

Ramana’s background is in psychology, Eastern philosophy, Kriya Yoga, Rebirthing, Holotropic Breathwork, Transpersonal Psychology, Creative Visualization, NLP and Hypnosis, along with the teachings of my Indian masters, emerged a unique piece of work called "Radical Awakening.” All this training resulted in my book "The 7 Steps to Radical Awakening: Finding the Calm in the Storm of Overwhelm.”

I was a child of the Sixties, born and raised in the San Francisco bay area. This was a time of a cultural renaissance, and, awakening of consciousness,  which later laid the ground for the New Age movement and holistic healing.

In 1968, I was immersed in Fritz Perl’s Gestalt Therapy, and was a diligent student of hippy spiritual teacher Stephan Gaskin. Steven pointed me to the first Zen master in the US, Suzuki Roshi, who to this day is still considered to be one of great Zen masters of the modern age. I have been a Transpersonal Psychotherapist for over thirty years and has been teaching mediation for the past forty years.

I am one of the disciples of one of South India's greatest modern saints, Sri Ramana Maharshi through my teacher Sri Poonja (affectionately known as Papaji). In 1997, Papaji bestowed the name of his master, Ramana to me, and requested that I carry on the teachings of my namesake, Ramana Maharshi. 

I have been sharing Ramana's message exclusively since 1997 in the form of satsangs, private appointments and weekend meditation intensives.

To learn more about Ramana go to his website: https://awakeningwithramana.weebly.com/