Darshan Jan Lotichius has been practicing meditation since 1981. In 1985 he met Swami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of the great Master Paramhansa Yogananda and founder of the Ananda communities in America, Italy, and India. From that moment on, he became a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda and the path of Kriya Yoga. Graduated in literature from the universities of Amsterdam and Rome and trained in violin at the conservatory of Bari, Darshan has always sought ways to integrate meditation into all areas of life: professional, artistic, social, and personal.

In 2000 Swami Kriyananda made him a minister of Ananda Sangha, the international movement that presents Yogananda's teachings to society. Darshan organizes seminars both in Europe and America and currently resides in the Ananda Assisi community, where he teaches at the Ananda Association.

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).