Meditation Class Givers

Begabati Lennihan, RN, CCH (Certified Classical Homeopath) has been meditating under the guidance of Sri Chinmoy since 1973, when she first
met him as a senior at Harvard. Begabati grew up planning to become a doctor like her father, but she developed a pioneering interest in natural healing in the early 70s and upon graduation opened a health food store instead. For many years she ran her health food store, first in Boston and then in Cambridge, as a much-loved community gathering place and a venue for her meditation classes.

More recently she has opened a practice as a homeopath and natural health consultant (GreenHealing), now located at the Lydian Center for Innovative Medicine near Fresh Pond in Cambridge. Begabati is also Director of Teleosis School of Homeopathy and an adjunct faculty member at Mass. College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

She offers free meditation classes for the Harvard community through Harvard’s Center for Wellness
(listed as “Calm Your Mind, Open Your Heart” on the HCW calendar).
Inspired by Sri Chinmoy’s promotion of marathon running as a metaphor
for the spiritual journey, she has completed 50 marathons,
ultramarathons and triathlons.

Ganapati J. Coleman, Ph.D. became a student of Sri Chinmoy in 1974 and joined the Boston Sri Chinmoy Centre while studying Electrical Engineering at Harvard in the mid-70s. He then transferred to the Providence (RI) Sri Chinmoy Centre while earning his masters and doctorate at Brown University in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering respectively. Born in Africa (Monrovia, Liberia), Ganapati has maintained an ongoing interest in Centre projects there since the running of the first World Harmony Run (then the Peace Run) in 1987. Ganapati recently moved back to Boston in 2008 and is now teaching classes for the Boston
Centre.