According to one testimony, Kamala St. Germain’s life may have been cut short, but she lived every second of her 75 years to the fullest.

“She was just the most serene, spiritual person you could ever meet,” said massage therapist Deanna Raymond of Brentwood. “She was always calm; she just had a motherly presence about her.”

Virginia State Police announced Dec. 4 that St. Germain, a Hooksett resident, died in a six-car pileup on Interstate 95 on Dec. 1.

Raymond, a student of the St. Germain’s DoveStar School of Holistic Technology, said she discovered the news of her mentor’s death on Dec. 3, when employees of the school were expressing their grief on their online Facebook profiles.

“Everyone in the DoveStar community is kind of shocked,” Raymond said. “We’re all e-mailing each other and giving each other support.

St. Germain was in a Honda headed north on Interstate 95 when she was rear-ended by a 2001 Kenworth tractor-trailer driven by Warren Lucas Tomlinson Jr., 64, of Emporia, Va., the “Progress-Index” of Petersburg, Va., reported.

St. Germain’s Honda was wedged underneath the tractor-trailer when it ignited, setting an SUV ablaze.

The crash closed northbound I-95 for about seven hours.

According to St. Germain’s Web site, she was an ordained minister and had a doctorate in divinity from the Universal Life Church. She founded the DoveStar School of Holistic Technology and completed a three-month yoga teacher program at the Shivananda Yoga Center in Val Morin, Quebec. She taught yoga and massage internationally for 44 years.

St. Germain was a certified clinical hypnotherapist, an astrologer, licensed massage therapist, a Reiki master teacher and a practitioner of colon hydrotherapy.

She had five children, 10 grandchildren and several great grandchildren.

She taught and lectured on holistic health at the collegiate level, on radio and television, locally and internationally since 1965 and authored many published articles.

Employees at the DoveStar School in Hooksett declined to comment on the accident.

Raymond attended the DoveStar School from 2003 to 2006 and took several massage therapy classes offered by St. Germain.

“She was everyone’s mentor,” Raymond said.