- Hilda Charlton
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birth_date = 1906
birth_place = London, England
death_date = January 29, 1988
death_place = New York City, NY, USA
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occupation = Dancer, Spiritual Teacher
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footnotes =Hilda Charlton was a spiritual teacher, author, dancer, and healer who taught classes in meditation and prayer in
New York City for 23 years.cite book|author=Hilda Charlton|title=Saints Alive]Biography
Hilda was born in
London in 1906, and moved to theUnited States with her parents when she was 4 years old. She was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California. At the age of 18, she began performing as a modern dancer. For the next 20 years, she danced and taught in the San Francisco area.Hilda toured India as a dancer from 1947 to 1950, and stayed in India for fifteen more years, studying eastern mysticism and meditation. She met and was guided by great spiritual masters, including
Bhagawan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri, Sri Mahadevananda of Bombay, and SriSathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi.Hilda settled in New York City upon returning to America. She became a spiritual teacher at the request of people she met, and over the years her classes grew in size from two people to more than a thousand. The location was moved from a students apartment to the basement of St. Luke's Church. In 1976, the location was moved to the nave and later to the Synod House of the cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Hilda was a friend of
Rudi (Swami Rudrananda) , and was an invited guest at his meditation sessions held in New York City in the 1960s and early 1970s. [http://www.rudimovie.org/rudi_lectures.html cite book|author=Swami Rudrananda|title=Rudi Lectures on CD] ]Her teachings incorporated the fundamental principles of the world's religions and she spoke of the importance of a life of giving and forgiving, unconditional love, and remembrance of God.
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