About CSA-California
MISSION STATEMENT..............
Making the Kriya Yoga teachings of Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda, Roy Eugene Davis and their successors available to all sincere seekers.
CSAC is a non-profit CA corp. founded in 1985 by a small group of students to promote the teachings of Roy Eugene Davis and the Center for Spiritual Awareness, Lakemont Ga. in California. Over the years many Seminars and Retreats have been sponsored where Roy Eugene Davis taught the Kriya Yoga practices and procedures he learned from his Guru, Paramahansa Yogananda. In 2011 a new board of directors were elected and they began the development of the Retreat facility in Placerville and the promotion of Kriya Yoga and Ayurvedic programs in Sacramento. As Roy Eugene Davis, 85 has cut back on his traveling to California, CSAC will facilitate CSA Ministers classes throughout California and many programs at the retreat facility in Placerville. We rely on donations from attendees of our programs and our friends around the globe who support CSA’s mission. We are currently raising funds to expand our capabilities and complete the County requirements for the retreat Center. We hope to be debt free and able to provide programs and classes on donations alone. We don’t want the cost to prevent anyone from attending our programs and events. We are here to pass along the teachings that have been passed from Roy Eugene Davis to us.
Leode Franklin
Board of Directors
Leode Franklin has been a student of Roy Eugene Davis for more than 40 years and was ordained by him to teach Kriya Yoga. Leode has taught Meditation in the San Jose area for 30 years. She serves on the Board of Directors for CSA California as well being a member of the board of trustees of Center for Spiritual Awareness with world headquarters in Lakemont, Georgia. She can be reached at leode27@gmail.com and 408-997-2677
Ryan Strong
Board of Directors
Ryan Phillip Strong CAS, is a practitioner and teacher of Kriya Yoga. Ryan was ordained by his guru, Roy Eugene Davis (a direct disciple of Parmahansa Yogananda), to teach Kriya Yoga. Ryan has taught meditation and Yogic philosophy for 10 years, and is a minister for the Center for Spiritual Awareness. Ryan has spent 15 years studying Yogic philosophy, including Ayurveda and Vedic Astrology (Jyotish). Ryan Strong is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, and a professional member of The National Ayurvedic Medical Association. Ryan runs an Ayurvedic Natural Healing Center in Sacramento seeing patients and doing vedic astrology readings. He lives with his wife and two children in Sacramento. Ryan is also on faculty at the The California College of Ayurveda, and the Asheville School of Yoga and Massage. He can be contacted by e-mail at strongveda@gmail.com, or by phone at 928-607-7588.
Sandra Nomer
Board of Directors
I have been studying Yoga with my teacher, Roy Eugene Davis, since high school. I was initiated into Kriya Yoga by The Self Realization Fellowship in 1970 and accepted as a student by Roy Eugene Davis in 1971. Roy Eugene Davis is a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of the Self Realization fellowship. He was ordained by him to teach and pass on the teachings of our Kriya Yoga tradition. I was ordained by Roy Eugene Davis, after 45 years of study and practice of meditation and other yoga lifestyle principals. I now represent my teacher and these teachings here in California and have set up "The Infinite Life Retreat" facility to provide a quiet peaceful environment to practice meditation, learn holistic lifestyle practices and study the philosophical principals of Kriya Yoga. Sandra can be contacted at sandranomer@comcast.net or 530 621 2300