About

Donna Quesada Schollhammer (Dhanpal)

Instructor of eastern spiritual philosophy at Santa Monica College, CA.

Teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Zen disciple.

Artist (some of my watercolor paintings can be seen here on this website—see “watercolor page”);

Writer and interviewer at Awaken.com

Author of Buddha in the Classroom; The Sycamore That Wanted To Be a Cactus, and five CDs of Guided Meditations—including the EP Get Zen, which features music by film composer Thierry Mader Schollhammer. All are available on Amazon and or iTunes.

Animal lover.

My beloved Marcel (2009-2024)

CONTACT: voiladonnaquesada @ gmail . com

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8 responses to “About”

  1. Irene Lopez's avatar An Urban Mystic | April 18, 2013 at 9:15 AM | Reply

    Dear Dhanpal-Donna,
    You have a very beautiful blog, BI was happy to have stumbled upon it. Blessings! 🙂

  2. Casey Brown's avatar Casey Brown | March 11, 2017 at 7:09 AM | Reply

    I want to thank you for your meditation CDs!!! Everything feels magical when I am listening to them. 😀

  3. Ron Drake's avatar Ron Drake | November 23, 2018 at 7:12 PM | Reply

    Patanjali Yoga Sutras. What book would you recommend?

  4. Tiffiny Eighmy's avatar Tiffiny Eighmy | October 2, 2019 at 7:09 PM | Reply

    Hi you have a user friendly site It was very easy to post all the best

  5. Aarrón James Coleman's avatar Aarrón James Coleman | September 21, 2026 at 2:54 PM | Reply

    Zen Buddhism, Dr. Quesada’s Asian Philosophy course at SMC, and this blog changed my life! I went on to do currently be doing research on Topics in Jain Studies from UCI to here at UCR! Thanks professor! Namaste, I bow to you.

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