Rick started meditating and chanting in 1979 while in residence at Muktananda's Ashram in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After moving to the Boston area in 1993 he began practicing Ashtanga Yoga and completed teacher trainings with Richard Freeman and David Swensen. He taught Yoga classes and led weekly kirtans in the Boston area before moving to Western Mass where he now leads a monthly kirtan in Greenfield, MA. Rick is an RYT–500 certified Yoga teacher, student of Sanskrit and lives in Montague, MA