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.

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.