Priya Alessandra Gorgeri was born in Siena where she graduated in Modern Literature. Having become a teacher, she mainly worked with vulnerable children before dedicating herself entirely to social work, supporting the most disadvantaged, from drug addicts to at-risk minors, detainees, and people suffering from psychiatric disorders; also leading Therapeutic and sharing Groups in the field of conflict management. Her empathy towards fragile people and human suffering led her to seek a deeper meaning of life, until in 1992, thanks to reading "Autobiography of a Yogi," she found "the way home," feeling the joy of the teachings of Master Paramhansa Yogananda resonate in her soul. She first arrived at Ananda in 2004, became a Disciple in 2014, then a Kriyaban, and finally graduated from the European Academy of Raja Yoga with the great desire to share the Master's teachings with others. A few years ago she left her city and her work activity and moved permanently to Ananda to dedicate herself to deepening the Master's teachings themselves and to sharing them with others through teaching.

Nayaswami Emanuela Selogni has been living in Ananda since 2004 and has been on the spiritual path of Kriya Yoga since 1997. She graduated from the University of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Bergamo and was a tenured teacher for about ten years. She is a certified teacher of Educare alla Vita, the teaching method developed by Swami Kriyananda, and has taught at the Ananda Assisi school. She graduated in Ananda as a meditation teacher and conducts basic courses and training courses for meditation teachers. She loves to study and deepen the teachings transmitted by the Masters of Kriya Yoga and shares them with great joy, enthusiasm, and energy.