Devika Bedford began practicing the Siddha Yoga teachings in 1979 after a friend suggested she participate in a Siddha Yoga Shaktipat Intensive in Auckland, New Zealand. Devika offers seva as a Siddha Yoga meditation teacher and has served in the Siddha Yoga Foundation in Australia as both a national manager and the area director for Australia and New Zealand. She currently offers seva in the SYDA Foundation as a writer and editor.

Devika has a master’s degree in literature and linguistics from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. For more than twenty years, she was the managing editor of a publishing house that produces resources for social workers and therapists. Devika has three adult children and two grandchildren, and she lives in Langwarrin, Australia.