Lorne Charles Dekun

The Sage of the Motor City Lorne Charles Dekun

Lorne Dekun became a disciple of the great yoga master Paramhansa Yogananda in 1967. When he was 18, he met and studied with Yogananda's direct disciple Yogacharya J. Oliver Black, from whom he received Kriya Yoga initiation in 1968. In 1970, while serving with the United States Marine Corps in Hawaii, Lorne was able to study with another direct disciple of the master, Yogacharya Bernard Cole. Some years later, he met Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) the well-known Yogananda disciple and founder of Ananda. After living and working in the Ananda retreat centers and ashrams in California for many years, and becoming an ordained minister of the Ananda Self-realization order, Lorne moved back to Michigan to help develop the work of the Yogananda meditation tradition in his home state.