Sally Durgananda Kempton is one of today's most experienced and authentic teachers of meditation and inner evolution. Known for her ability to transmit deep inner experience through transformative practices and contemplation, she teaches students how to live from the space of an awakened heart in work, relationships and challenging situations.

Sally spent 20 years as a teaching swami (monk) in the Saraswati order of Indian monks, and her work integrates the wisdom of traditional yoga tantra with the insights of contemporary evolutionary spirituality and cutting edge psychology. Through her Awakened Heart Tantra workshops and teleconferences, her ongoing Transformative Practice Journey trainings, and through her regular column in Yoga Journal, she points out a path to inner awakening that embraces mind, heart and spirit.

Kempton was a disciple of the great Indian guru Swami Muktananda. In his ashrams, she received a traditional training in yoga philosophy and practice, and became a popular teacher, deeply versed in the teachings and practices of both Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism. In 2002, Sally began teaching independently, becoming known for her meditation workshops as well as for her trainings in applying spiritual wisdom to daily life situations.

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The 'how to' of applying yoga wisdom in daily life is also the theme of Sally's regular column, Wisdom, in Yoga Journal. Besides her shorter teleclasses and workshops, she offers two extensive trainings in the practices for awake living: The Transformative Journey, a year-long training, and The Transformative Practice Journey, an on-going tele- series. She is one of a select group of teachers in Ken Wilber's Integral Spiritual Center, and teaches regularly at conferences. Her book The Heart of Meditation, published under her monastic name of Swami Durgananda, has been a popular handbook for meditation students and teachers alike.

A specialist in working with subtle energies, she is known for creating a joyful and supportive atmosphere that lets students feel safe in moving to deeper levels of mind and heart.

"Sally Kempton is a powerfully insightful and eloquent teacher who fully embodies the spiritual wisdom she teaches," says Anusara Yoga founder John Friend. "Along with her deep knowledge of eastern philosophy, based on 30 years of study and practice, she has the rare capacity to guide students into the very heart of meditation. Just being in Sally's presence can be a life-changing, transformative experience."

A student recently said of her, "She can bring a whole room into a state of higher awareness."

"Sally Kempton is the real thing."
--Ken Wilber

Take a look at the new collection of Articles by Sally and at her new Q & A series, Life Questions.