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Reverend Yogacharini Sangeeta Laura Biagi, Ph.D., is a Minister of the Ministry of Maat, an interfaith minister that supports and promotes women's Egyptian mysteries and women's work.

Sangeeta researches, practices and teaches music, dance, art, astrology and yoga, and the effects of their relationship for global and natural health and happiness. Born in Siena, Italy, she earned a Master and Ph.D. at New York University, in the Department of Performance Studies, under the guidance of Professor Richard Schechner, with a disseration on the healing power of music and dance.

She studied under the mentoring of artists and scholars such as Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Augusto Boal, Denise Stoklos, The Living Theatre, Mestre Joao Grande, Robert Osborne, Luigi Chiriatti and Giovanna Marini.

While in New York she performed her own and other's music in venues such as Judson Church, La Mama Theatre, New York University, The Gallery at Deep Listening Space (Deep Listening Institute), and CBGB's.

She served as a Visiting Professor in Italian Folklore and Music at New York University (2007-2008) and Vassar College (2008-2009).

In 2007, Sangeeta became a certified tour guide for the city of Florence and has, since, led spiritual journeys and pilgrimages through Italy.

In 2009, she traveled to India where she lived at the International Center for Yoga Education and Research (Ananda Ashram, India), earning an Eighteen-Months Residential Senior Yoga Teachers Diploma in Rishiculture Ashtanga Yoga, in the Paramparai of Yogamaharishi Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri and under the guidance of Yogacharini Smt Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani and Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani. She earned the title of Yogacharini, "she who lives yoga."

She has taught music and yoga at ICYER and Yoganjali Natyalayam in Pondicherry, India; at the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga in New Delhi, India; at the Associazione Culturale Artè, Centro di Ashtanga e Rishi Yoga in Milan, Italy; at the Gitananda Yoga Association in Berlin, Germany; and at Vassar College in New York.

In the fall of 2011, Sangeeta joined the faculty at Vassar College as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Italian where is she teaching language courses and a spring seminar on the relationship between the arts and spirituality in Italy.