Kendra: I remember that as a child, I was very sensitive and intuitive. I remember being so confused that what I perceived in people’s consciousness didn’t seem to match what came out of their mouths. However, because I was ‘the child’, and they were the adults whom I was to emulate, I began to doubt my own intuitions, and opted for ‘fitting in’ with others, denying my own deeper senses.

Then, Baba Muktananda, an enlightened Saint from India, came to Aspen. It was 1974. Lots of Gurus were coming to America. Some were true, some were false. I lucked out. Baba was a true, highly regarded Guru, who taught from a long lineage of enlightened masters, and guided seekers on a very disciplined path of yoga and meditation. I took a week-long ‘Intensive’ and Retreat with him, and my life changed forever. I experienced, during meditation, a spiritual awakening, or ‘shaktipat’, whereby, with the touch of the Master on the forehead, a bolt of energy from the base of my spine shot suddenly upward – and my consciousness poured out the top of my head into an expanded awareness in which I experienced oneness with the whole Universe and a state of total peace. When I came out of meditation, everything around me looked and felt different. Spending a week with Baba Muktananda had opened my heart, changed the way I saw the world, changed my diet, my friends, and everything I had found interesting - almost over night. I was in love with my own newly found “ inner self “. As I walked through the streets or woods, I saw shimmering light emanating from everyone and everything. The whole world was aglow and made out of love. I felt Baba’s presence with me guiding me and laughing with me and teaching me from within. It was so exhilarating. Within the next 3 years, my life really shifted and changed, and I found myself going to India to be with Baba in his Ganeshpuri Ashram, where I ended up staying for a long time with him, and later on, his successor, Gurumayi Chidvillasananda. I actually spent the next 20 years, from 1976 – 1996 living, studying, and being part of the staff of the Ashram - 12 years in India, and 8 years in our upstate New York Ashram. It was the most amazing and rewarding time. I will always treasure every moment But that is another story.

When I came back to integrate who I was now, into life in the world, so to speak, I came back to Aspen. I settled in and began to explore. ‘ What has everyone been doing while I was away ? ‘ I began to take seminars and personal growth courses. It was fun and fascinating. This began to help me to feel more grounded as I made this transition back into worldly life.

In February 2002, I found out about Psychic Aura Therapy. I had a couple of private sessions, and was very impressed. Some issues I had never understood in my spiritual path, and my childhood became clarified and resolved. My mother, who passed away in 1982, appeared during my first session, wanting to apologize for some things she had done in my childhood, and I was able to really feel close to her again. As various blockages in my Aura were released, I felt more grounded and connected to my body. I guess I had always been a bit of a ‘space case’, more in the meditation world, and less with my feet on the ground. I now felt myself much more ‘in the body’ and able to be part of life. So, when a ‘Psychic Aura Basic Training’ was offered, I signed up. I loved it, and when Robert offered continuing study, I became an eager student. I have been studying with him now for several years, and we gradually began working together professionally, and being together as a couple. It is a dream come true.

Working as a PAT therapist, I am gradually finding that my spiritual background and my native intuitiveness are coming together, my abilities are unfolding, and my self certainty is increasing. Having a healthy Aura is like having a good immune system. Disruptive things are not attracted to our ‘good vibs’. We are able to attract instead, good things into our lives, healthy relationships, and positive life opportunities seem to open up like magic. I find it so rewarding to see people blossom and shine, as they move more confidently into their Life Purpose.

From my experiences in the Ashram, I know the Truth of who we are, as Spiritual beings. I have seen and lived in a place where people from all over the world, from all different religions and cultural backgrounds, could live in joy and harmony together. I want only to see everyone come to know the true joy, love and peace that exists within our own hearts. I dream of us living in a world where we are all aware of, and can appreciate our perfect uniqueness as well as our perfect Oneness, and can live in Peace and Harmony and Love for one another. May we all achieve our highest dreams together. This is my goal and mission. Many Blessings, Love and Light.