Lakshmi Wells was introduced to the Siddha Yoga path by a coworker in Seattle, Washington, in 1976, and has served as a Siddha Yoga musician since that time. She met Baba Muktananda later that year in Berne, Switzerland, during one of his Global Teaching Tours. Lakshmi offered seva as a staff member from 1978 to 2000, teaching Siddha Yoga music, playing harmonium, chanting namasankirtanas, and singing bhajans and devotional songs in satsangs in Shree Muktananda Ashram and Gurudev Siddha Peeth and on many of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda’s Teachings Visits throughout the world. Lakshmi offers seva as a Siddha Yoga musician in the SYDA Foundation.

Lakshmi holds a BA in music from the University of Washington in Seattle and an MA with a focus in holistic music education from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. Trained in several methods of vocal pedagogy, Lakshmi is a retired music teacher with the New York Education Department, and she works as a private vocal coach. She lives in Loch Sheldrake, New York, with her cat, Pritam.