Haripriya moved to Salt Spring in 2013, and quickly fell in love with all that the Centre had to offer. Coming from a different yoga lineage, she was looking for a community of practice and found a deep resonance with the devotional teachings of kirtan, arati and yajna – which filled her heart with love and deep gratitude for Babaji. She became a regular presence at Satsang and moved to the Centre for a season in 2016 as the Yoga Service and Study Immersion Coordinator. She completed her Yoga Teacher Training the following year. Amy previously served on the board (2014-2016), and has since been supporting the coordination of the Annual Community Yoga Retreat. After leaving the island in 2020, Amy received the name Haripriya and has continued to return each summer, with her dog Asha, to participate in community and support retreat planning.
Haripriya works as a public school teacher and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and Anthropology from UVic, a Bachelor of Education from UBC, and a Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communications from Royal Roads. She is trained in Nonviolent Communication and has spent her career working in alternate and blended home-learning programs on Salt Spring and Vancouver Island where she was born and raised. She has studied sustainable social-ecological systems and is passionate about the intersections between yoga, Indigenous teachings, right relationship to the world around us and with each other. She now gratefully lives in Cumberland on the traditional territory of the K’ómoks First Nation.