Amman first learned about Babaji as a teenager in
1969 and was initiated into kriya yoga in 1970 by Yogacharya J. Oliver Black, a lay minister of SRF and direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda. In the mid-1980’s he lived with Yogacharya Black at his his yoga retreat in northern Michigan.
In 2006 Amman rediscovered Babaji and has since then gained greater insight into yoga through Babaji’s Kriya Yoga. Amman has spent most of his working life in northern and western Canada in the environmental field and continues to hold a position with the Ministry of Environment in Saskatchewan.
Amman is accredited with the Yoga Alliance and has taught hatha yoga at the yoga center in northern Michigan, in a corrections facility in Saskatchewan and continues to teach from his home north of Saskatoon and at selected centers across North America.