Gordon Burnham was born and raised in Michigan. Interest in music, art, writing, nature and spirituality developed early and became his life's passions as time went by. He began playing music, composing and writing as a youth and majored in psychology and minored in music at Western Michigan University. After college Gordon traveled throughout the US playing music in coffeehouses and colleges from California to Boston, finally making a home on the south shore of Boston, in an idyllic harbor town called Cohasset. This was his base of operations as he played music professionally, wrote, taught music, and later taught Music Therapy at Northeastern University.Gordon also found his spiritual… home there, in Cohasset, MA. at the Vedanta Centre, under the spiritual leadership of Srimata Gayatri Devi. He was soon given the position of Music Director, writing much of the ashram's music, coordinating music for all activities, leading the choir, and recording and publishing music for the center. The teaching and inspiration that the Vedanta Centre is founded upon comes from Swami Paramananda, and Srimata Gayatri Devi, who was his successor until her passing in 1995. The basic principle of Vedanta Philosophy being that just as light passes equally through all windows, the light of truth shines through all spiritual pathsJoan Borysenko and her former husband Miroslav Borysenko, who then lived in the nearby town of Scituate, came to know and love Gordon's music and lyrics and felt it should be brought to a larger audience, so they produced and promoted his first solo album, "Rhythm of Life". He began providing music for workshops from Boston to Seattle with Joan Borysenko, and was soon leading his own workshops and giving concerts in major New Age and spiritual centers throughout the US. Gordon also taught Music Therapy at Northeastern University, Boston, MA., and brought much of his knowledge into his workshops on "Healing and Spiritual Consciousness Through Music". His love of nature, spirituality, music and writing gradually evolved into mystical and nature poetry and essays on the spiritual path. Gordon is currently based in La Crescenta, CA, where he continues to share his love for nature, humankind, and the Spirit that dwells in all, through the healing and spiritual power of music and the written word.