The Feathered Pipe Foundation
Our Mission
The mission of the Feathered Pipe Foundation is to provide educational programs and experiences in a nurturing environment where people can learn to enrich their minds, bodies and spiritual well-being, and from these endeavors gain resources to further humanitarian efforts and to preserve endangered cultures and traditions.
The Feathered Pipe Foundation is a nonprofit education organization which is tax-exempt under IRS Code 501(c)(3). click here to learn more about how to contribute
Staff
India Supera, Founder.
Kim Schleicher, Interim Executive Director.
Katherine Smith, Administrative Director.
Linda Hays
Howard Levin, Ranch Manager.
Joanne Stifler, Bookkeeper.
Board of Directors
Robert Hall, President
Jane Wieland, Vice President
Stewart Kahn, Treasurer
Nancy Miller, Secretary
Baxter Bell
Rita Dettore
David Sunshine
Cora Wen
Cooper Wright
Beginnings
Beginning as the Holistic Life Foundation in 1975 with a vision of a better future, we have consistently offered learning experiences which inspire people to discover their inner path. Since that time over 10,000 people have studied with some of the greatest teachers of our time at Feathered Pipe Seminars. If you are a yoga student in the U.S. chances are you have been affected directly or indirectly by the Feathered Pipe Foundation.
In 1975, in association with The California Yoga Teachers Association we established the Yoga Journal on Janis Paulsen Silver's $500 credit card limit. She and William (Stanniger) Golden were the founding editors. The Yoga Journal is now celebrating its own 25th Anniversary in the capable hands of John Abbott.
Also in conjunction with the CYTA we began the Institute of Yoga Teacher Education offering the first certification for yoga teachers in the country. This school later became the Iyengar Institute (which, happily, is still in existence as The Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco). Special thanks to Rama Jyoti, then the president of CYTA, who had the vision of how to carry yoga into the future of America.
About the same time we started the Holistic Life University in San Francisco which offered educator/counselor training programs for Childbirth Education, Holistic Health, Life/Death Transitions, and Certified Massage Practice. Although the school closed in 1981, it served as a model and inspiration for college programs that were soon developed by other accredited universities in the Bay Area.
Since 1975 we have offered seminars at the Feathered Pipe Ranch in yoga, holistic health, psychology, astrology, shamanism, the arts, and bodywork. We have published two editions of the Feathered Pipe Cookbook. We also sponsor tours throughout the world to foster personal growth, study ancient tribal traditions and experience the transformative energies of places of pilgrimage.