What is an ashram? Do you need to be connected more to your inner self and feel the ultimate happiness? If yes, then make your way to one of the India ashram retreat that conduct various activities to help you feel spiritually high. Below, we provide you details on individual ashrams in India where you can spend some time to experience another aspect of life.
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Shree Bindu Sewa Sansthan
The Shree Bindu Sewa Sansthan Ashram is situated in Vrindavan, about 150 km south of Delhi. Swami Balendu founded the Ashram in 1995 to build an underground cave on the Ashram premises where he then spent three years and 108 days isolated from the rest of the world, doing mantra meditation. Now this Ashram in India has a free school for poor children where they receive education and food for free. Only in this way they are able to learn as their parents cannot afford sending them to other schools.
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The whole year around the Ashram offers Ayurveda and Yoga retreats that people from all over the world join in order to improve their physical and mental well-being with the help of ancient sciences.Of course the participation in any of these courses support the children charity projects. There are rooms available for staying also for visitors who do not participate in courses and Swami Balendu and his family welcome everybody in the peaceful atmosphere of the ashram retreat India.
Amritapuri Ashram
Experience the divine grace of Ma Amrita, popularly known as Amma, by paying homage at her ashram in Amritapuri, in Quilon, South Kerala. Amma has devoted her life for social cause and have counseled million of devotees all over the world for the same reason. She is a one personality who has devoted her life for improving the social condition of the poor and in raising spiritualism amongst the mankind. Amma propagates peace, love, tranquility amongst mankind.
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Art of Living AshramThe Art of Living Ashram is perched on a small hill, a part of the rambling landscape full of hills and dales. Spanning over a large area the complex includes offices, snack shop, dining hall, residential quarters, library, prayer hall, beautifully maintained lawns and an exquisitely constructed lotus-shaped tower. This Indian ashram complex also houses a school, which caters to about 700 children from the nearby villages.
Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute
The Yoga education taught at Astanga Yoga Research Institute is a popular ashram in Rishikesh India that has been gaining popularity in recent years, especially amongst foreigners. Tourists from all corners of the globe practice this brand of yoga, which is extremely physical and requires a lot of concentration and perseverance. The octogenarian hatha yoga master K Pattabhi Jois founded the Mysore-based Astanga Yoga Research Institute.
RamaKrishna Ashram
The Ram Krishna Mission has more than 105 centers of the Ramakrishna Movement all over India. Abroad, there are centers in Argentina, Bangladesh, Canada, Fiji, France, Japan, Mauritius, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.It is advisable to reach this ashram in Indian early in the morning, since the ashrams and the temples at Belur are closed to devotees between 12 noon and 4 pm and then again after the evening prayers.
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Osho DhamThe foundation of the centre was laid by the Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh. Osho Ashram over the period of time, has become a virtual refuge for anyone looking for Indian spirituality. Osho still continues to hold people's imagination even after his death. Though Osho was raised as a Jain, he practiced his own form of spirituality after his samadhi. This was first called Rajneeshism and then Oshoism. He taught philosophy in Jabalpur for nine years, while preaching his own faith. After that, he left his post and focussed on his own teaching.
Sai Baba Ashram
In 1926, Sri Satya Sai Baba was born in the village of Puttaparthi, Andra Pradesh, India. At the tender age of 14,he went through some weird experiences, that his family and others believed at the time to be demonic possession. Soon after one of these, Satyanarayan asserted that the spirit of a guru known as Sai Baba of Shirdi, Maharashtra, who had died more than twenty years earlier, had come into him.