David Hutchinson: Panelist

David Hutchinson became interested in yoga in the mid-1970s, when he was 20 years old. For a few years he explored various yoga paths, then came upon The Synthesis of Yoga, and his fate was sealed. He spent a year at the California Institute of Asian Studies (now the California Institute of Integral Studies), in San Francisco, studying Sanskrit and Eastern philosophy.

In the last ten years Dave has been involved with the wider community of sadhaks. Since 1994 he has participated actively on various Integral Yoga email lists, and he helped found and maintain the Miraura Web site.

Dave is also a member of the Sri Aurobindo Association, which engages in a number of activities related to the yoga, including publishing the journal Collaboration. Co-editing that journal has put him in contact with many people who write about the yoga. In 1996 he visited the Pondicherry Ashram and Auroville for the first and only time.

He lives in Sacramento, California, where he hosts discussion groups one evening a week to discuss major works such as Savitri, The Synthesis of Yoga, and The Life Divine. He occasionally interacts with members of the Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Peetham, an ashram in Lodi, California, and with individuals from the Bay Area.

Dave has been married since 1983, and is a registered nurse at the UC Davis Medical Center, where he works in the technology field, implementing a large-scale electronic medical record.