About Your Hosts

Keenly interested in health, Donna Davidge, 500 E-RYT received her Masters in Nutrition in the late 70’s and pursued her creative side acting and modeling (living for three years in Europe) from the mid 80’s into the early 90’s.

When she was 12 Donna (Amrita) wrote a poem called WHY and has pursued the answers to these questions ever since.

In 1985 Donna discovered Kundalini Yoga in New York City, practicing and studying this form as a powerful tool for healing and personal growth. Her teacher Ravi Singh encouraged her to begin teaching within a year. Pursuing yoga avidly, she became certified by 3HO and Yoga Alliance. She has taught tens of thousands of hours in New York City in groups and privately, as well as workshops in the Northeast, Canada, Italy, Sweden and Costa Rica. Her primary studies have been with Yogi Bhajan, who gave her the spiritual name Amrita (nectar) in the late 80’s, Eddie Stern for Ashtanga since 1999 as well as Dharma Mittra, and since 2004 with Genny Kapuler, Iyengar based. Her learning and teaching continue to evolve. Having broken her back skydiving at age 22, then hit by a cab on her bicycle in NYC in the mid 90’s, her exploration of yoga started as a self reflection tool leading into an integration tool for body, mind and spirit through her various teachers and students. She views yoga as a way to grow from within and study the physical and emotional marks our life has made on us. Her teacher Yogi Bhajan said happiness is our birthright so she explores ways to serve her students in a manner that can aid them in finding health and happiness in their own lives. ihanuman.com/donnadavidge/

Donna (Amrita) has rekindled her love of writing and has written for Fityoga, Yogamint, yoga.com and has been the bi-monthly Yoga Columnist for Inner Tapestry since 2000.

Sewall House offered their first Yoga Teacher Training by request in 2009 , with a small group of committed students. Donna continues to explore the unending learning that yoga has to help answer the “why” questions of life she asked in her poem at age 12. She has appeared in print, on radio and television, including Martha Stewart and Good Morning America. She has produced two yoga videos; The Challenge was chosen top ten by Yoga Journal in 2000. In 2004 she and Kent co-produced two Kundalini yoga DVDs, the Awakening and Flexibility and the Spine, ihanuman.com with music composed and performed by Kent Bonham. Donna has also produced two audio classes in Kundalini Yoga, with a booklet for one, and most recently a Yoga Nidra

Donna also keeps a personal blog called Life Nectar.

Kent Bonham, Licensed Massage Therapist plays the guitar, sings and composes music. In addition to being the co-owner and offering Swedish, Therapeutic & Energy Massage, he is also the chef at Sewall House. He was born in northern Sweden and moved to Stockholm at the age of 17. In Stockholm he worked for EMI Records, Swedish Television International and for a variety of production companies within the performing arts. His interest in the theater and music led him to work as an actor in a variety of productions and as a singer in gospel musicals which were performed at major venues in Sweden.

In 1997 Kent came to the United States to pursue full time acting studies at Uta Hagen’s HB Acting School in New York City. It was at HB Studio that Kent met Donna and became a student of Kundalini Yoga. In the spring of 2001 he attended college in Chicago to pursue a degree in Music. In the summer of 2001, Donna & Kent reunited at Sewall House and fell in love. Kent has spent much time improving and renovating Sewall House with Donna since that summer of love and they got married at the house in the summer of 2003.

Kent composes music for the Kundalini Yoga workshops and DVDs that he has produced with his wife. Kent also began a Vinyasa Yoga practice in 2001 in addition to his Kundalini Yoga practice. In 2006 he graduated cum laude with a BA degree in Music from City College in NY City, which he had transferred to in 2002. In the winter months Kent travels with his wife doing yoga workshops on the East Coast and has worked for one of the finest catering companies in New York City, which made Kent take the leap to become the chef at Sewall House and learn more about food and hospitality service.

Kent’s music is soothing, healing and sweet. Comments on Kent’s music: “Kent, your background music throughout, really helped me center on the practice and the breath”, “It was so nice and soothing to hear your husband Kent, playing and singing”, “We love your husband’s music and wish we could buy one of his releases”, “First, I love your guitar playing and as a fellow player it is refreshing to see some originality, your voice is great and the production quality is also good, Great Success!”