Autobiography of Steven S. Sadleir or Sai

Steven began meditating, innately, as a child and practicing yoga in high school and teaching yoga in college. At 16 he had a vision and God spoke to him while meditating on top of the Palisades in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, and he began a twenty year quest to study, and write a book about, every world religion, philosophy, form of yoga and meditation and path to enlightenment in the world.

After over twenty years of traveling the world and studying and writing about every major religions denomination and sect, mystery school and shamanic practice, and most of the major gurus, masters and saints he published Looking for God, a Seeker’s Guide to Religions and Spiritual Paths of the World became an Amazon best-seller and he has since written several other books on Eastern and Western religion, philosophy and science.

He completed his Kundlini Master level training under Yogiraj Vethathiri Maharishi in Chennai in the Siddha tradition known as SKY Yoga, Steven founded he founded the Self Awareness Institute with the Maharishi in 1985.

He studied with several Kriya Masters in India, and completed his Masters level training in the Kriya lineage under Chuni Lal Lahiri (The Great Grandson of Kriya Founder Lahiri Mahasai) in Varanassi, India.

Steven completed his Yoga Tapas (Dhyana 23 hours daily) under the direction of Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj from Bangalore, India, and was asked to give Shaktipat and Dhyana initiations by the Maharaj. He was given the name Sai by his first guru, Satya Sai Baba the Avatar, and is used by students in India, but not the USA. Steven has since reached millions via seminars, books, radio, movies and television.

Steven has hosted three Cable network television shows, including Consciousness with Hallmark’s Spirit Clips, Enlightenment with Streaming for the Soul, and Self Realization with Enlightenment Network. He has also starred in three movies on enlightenment – Spiritual Revolution, 3 Magic Words and Enlightenment Now, the Awakening of Humanity. Steven has hosted Enlightenment Radio for decades which has reached millions of people in over 100 countries via Libsyn, iTunes, iHeart, Spotify, FM, Audible and dozens of other stations..

Educationally, Steven has a Bachelors of Science in Business from Menlo College and a Master’s in Economics, as a Rotary Scholar, from the University of Wales, UK. He has worked as an economist for the US government and Lloyds Bank, and as an investment banker and fund manager for many years, but retired in 2008 to teach full time and is now semi-retired and living in Hawaii. Steven has never married and has no children and lives as a yogi. Leave us your email if you would like to keep in touch.