Swami Baba Nataraja, is affectionately known to those who have been touched by his wisdom and grace, as simply Baba. He was born, Franco Vicedomini, in 1930 in Boston, Massachucetts. Baba showed great precocity and evidence of genius at a young age.
Young Franco, for example, was a practicing chemist with a full clinical laboratory at the age of 16. At the age of 18, he was auditing classes at the Massachucetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in theoretical physics. He went on to study Psychology at the Univerisity of Chicago for two years.
His intellectual brilliance continues to shine today. Baba has great knowledge and erudition in the fields of holistic medicine, yoga--especially the esoteric tantras of Kriya, Hatha, and Kundalini Yoga. He has a keen interest in using the ancient practices of Hatha Yoga and Ayurvedic medicine to overcome diseases. He maintains a wide correspondence through the internet helping people who reach out to him throughout the world.
Baba at Crater Lake in Oregon