Gitanjali Deborah Gregorelli grows up in Colorado, America, where she graduates in psychology. In 1980 she moves to California to the Ananda ashram in San Francisco. In 1982, she becomes a holistic operator in the field of healing and moves to Ananda village where she becomes the director of the Ananda choir. In 1989, she arrives at Ananda Assisi where she directs the Italian choir. From 2005 to 2010 she lives in the Ananda Gourgaon ashram, in India with her husband Yogindra.

She has been teaching at Ananda for more than 20 years a wide variety of courses, but her main interest is the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda on healing and self-healing. Gitanjali is one of the teachers of the Ananda Life-Therapy school and is also specialized in teachings concerning the chakras and how to work on them to heal oneself and grow spiritually. She also holds courses at the Ananda Raja Yoga Academy.

With her husband Yogindra,  she organizes  conferences and seminars throughout Italy  on self-healing based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda, and being both ministers, they lead some of the Sunday services at Ananda.

Arudra (Antonijo Slisko) is of Croatian origin, but has been living in Italy for many years. Since he was young, his thirst for understanding and his great interest in consciousness, understood as the fundamental reality, have led him to explore meditation and spirituality, searching for tools to live increasingly in harmony with that higher consciousness.

In 2008, at the end of high school studies, he discovered Paramhansa Yogananda and his teachings and began his journey as a disciple. Since then, he has dedicated his life to living in contact with the Divine and sharing with others the many practical ways to experience It and bring it into their lives.

Since 2009 he has lived in Italy, in the spiritual community of Ananda near Assisi, a community founded on and based on the teachings of Yogananda. At Ananda, in the Yoga and Meditation Retreat, he leads courses on meditation, Superconsciousness, intuition, and how to spiritualize and transform one’s consciousness by sharing the principles and tools that have changed his life. Additionally, Arudra serves as coordinator of Ananda's meditation groups in Eastern Europe, also as minister and kriyacharya (a person authorized to transmit initiation into the sacred technique of kriya yoga).