Matthew Hoagland began following the Siddha Yoga path in 2000 when he was twenty-one-years old. He serves regularly as a visiting sevite in the Music Department at Shree Muktananda Ashram and has offered seva in the Music Department at Gurudev Siddha Peeth. Matthew also offers seva as coordinator of the Music Department at the Siddha Yoga Meditation Center in New York City.

Matthew works in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his wife, Carla Kissane.