Teachers

Jivasu (Pradeep Kumar)

Jivasu’s (Pradeep Kumar) teachings are named as Naturality. Naturality is to ‘to live according to our innate nature’. Jivasu is a meditation teacher and a faculty in McMaster University Acupuncture Program in Canada.

Born in 1956, Jivasu completed his medical training as a pediatrician from Lucknow, India. For next 13 years he along with his wife Dr. Karen (whom he considers his teacher) served as voluntary medical doctors, in Sivananda ashram, Rishikesh and later on in the remote villages of Garhwal Himalayas.

While living in Sivananda ashram he experienced his first awakening which came to full fruition twelve years later in the experience of  ‘wholeness’  and ‘freedom from psychological fear of death.’

Diane Zsepeczky

Diane comes to Samagra with an extensive background in teaching and counseling.  It was her enduring life passion to never stop growing and to facilitate growth for others that originally brought her to what is now a twelve year affiliation with Samagra. To her great joy, and over this time, the experience of a personal practice of meditation has served to further enliven this passion. It now finds particular expression as she brings her work with meditation, ego, soul and shadow to stand-alone workshops and classes for an eclectic group of meditators,  from those just starting out to those who are training to facilitate meditation for others.

Sham Rang (Cynthia Nelson)

Sham Rang was born in Toronto and raised in Oakville.  As a child she was fascinated by the concept of love and felt that she was somehow missing the depth and breadth of its reality.  Discovering the truth behind and beyond love became a passion for her.  After the birth of her first child she developed another passion – the brain and its capacity for learning.  Watching in awe the intrinsic intelligence of her son and intrigued by the automatic nature of his learning she attended Teacher’s College and became a teacher with the Halton School Board.