Graham M. Schweig, PhD, E-RYT 500 | YACEP, is a practitioner of meditation and heart-centered yoga for more than 50 years. He leads workshops, seminars, and lectures on yoga and religion in the United States and Europe. He is accompanied by his wife and life-companion, Catherine L. Schweig, RYT, who together founded The Secret Yoga Institute.

Graham holds a doctorate from Harvard University in comparative religion with a specialization in sacred Sanskrit yoga literature. He is a professor of philosophy and religion and director of religion studies at Christopher Newport University and a distinguished teaching and research faculty at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.

Over the past fourteen years, Graham has been invited by the Smithsonian Institution to deliver more than three dozen lectures on religion and Yoga at its museums in Washington, DC.

Among his more than 100 publications, his translation of the Bhagavad Gita (Harper Collins, 2010) has been used in Yoga teacher trainings nationwide. His translation and commentary on Patanjali’s Yoga Sūtra is forthcoming from Yale University Press, and his book, The Yoga of Love, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Eric Fraser’s training in Indian classical music on the bansuri flute occurred in the Guru-Sishya Parampara tradition, meaning that he received training in Indian classical music while living with his teacher (Guru – late Pandit Gopal Roy), in Kolkata, India.

Eric has received extensive taleem (oral teachings) and his flute playing conveys a purity of tone, authenticity and tradition. The “sur” (tone and tune) of Eric’s flute lineage has a unique sound in the landscape of Indian music, telling the story of an old world Kolkata vibe through a gayaki ang or “singing style” of bansuri flute. 


Eric is also a multi-instrumentalist, composer and recording artist. His original music expresses the contours of a true cross cultural blending, featuring eclectic American styles and psychedelic long form instrumental music, with a felt connection to the meditative and ecstatic forms of Indian music. He is a Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC) and a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT). Eric is a co-founder of the Brooklyn Raga Massive and a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar for Indian classical music. Eric is the founder and director of Sound and Nature, a licensed mental health practice in Hudson, NY.

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Premananda Vilasa Das has been a student of the Bhagavad Gita for over a decade, as well as a practitioner of Bhakti yoga and devotional chanting since 2009. Premananda Vilasa taught yoga in the Charlottesville and DC areas while finishing his Ph.D. in History at the University of Virginia. He is a curator at the National Museum of American History in DC. He studies under and works alongside Dr. Graham Schweig by hosting a Krishna Bhakti philosophy and theology podcast with him on a regular basis.

Krishna Kanta Dasi has been a student and practitioner of Bhakti Yoga since 1986. Thirty years ago she was formally initiated into the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, which has the heartfelt chanting and singing of Sanskrit mantras at its core. As the wife of Graham M. Schweig, Krishna Kanta assists him with the research and content editing of his books, and designing yoga workshops. Krishna Kanta is also a mother, an artist, and runs an online, international, spiritual sisterhood dedicated to inspiring women, from which five award-winning publications have emerged. Krishna Kanta’s own poems have been nominated for Pushcart prizes and she is also editor of the first poetry collection by contemporary women of the Bhakti yoga tradition.