"...Ma Deva Dhiraja was born in the Ukraine (then a part of the Soviet Union) on November 19, 1973. Her mother is from the Ukraine, and her father from Moscow. Dhiraja moved to Tajikistan (just north of Afghanistan) as an infant. As the rumblings of war were heard in the distant air, Dhiraja left the mountains of Tajikistan for St. Petersburg, Russia in 1983. Dhiraja studied art in Russia, and today enjoys intuitive art, and loves to create collages, and work with all art forms. She sees art in life's simplest things...from a crumbled leaf to a street artifact, and often uses what she discovers in her art. Dhiraja is not of this world, and is often able to predict situations before they occur. She is a natural healer, whose touch itself can create an altered state..."
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