Lisa Prajna Hallstrom is a teacher, singer, and spiritual counselor with a PhD in Hinduism and Buddhism from Harvard University.
She has taught at Smith, Mt. Holyoke and Bard Colleges and has facilitated personal growth workshops for many years as well as the Women's Spirituality Program at Interface in Cambridge, MA.
Her own spiritual path integrates Hindu mysticism and bhakti yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, and earth-based spirituality. In the course of her journey, Prajna has studied with many spiritual teachers and, through the gifts she has received as well as the disillusionments, she has come to discover the power of a direct relationship with the divine, in particular with the Divine Mother.
Her book, Mother of Bliss: Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982), published by Oxford University Press (1999), is now available in paperback. She has recently completed a live kirtan CD entitled “Jai Ma!” that is available through CD Baby.
Prajna facilities rites of passage for girls and women, officiates at memorial services and performs weddings in Massachusetts in her capacity as an Interfaith Minister. She lives in Lincoln, MA, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, but leads chanting evenings and workshops around the country.
