Path to Yoga: Ashrams

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Beginning of this year, I visited one of the most iconic cities in India: Varanasi. One of my intentions was to stay in an ashram in the ho...

Aurovalley Ashram Rishidwar, founded by Swami Brahmdev, is a peaceful ashram near Rishikesh. It's a great place to spend time in sile...

$Yogoda Math, Paramahansa Yogananda's Ashram in Kolkata$

Yogoda Satsanga Math is the ashram founded in 1938 by Paramahansa Yogananda in Dakshniswar, Kolkata. It is the headquarters of Yogoda S...

Every time that somebody ask me for an ashram recommendation in South India the Sivananda Ashram in Madurai is always at the top of my list...

For a long time I wanted to study vedanta at Swami Dayananda Ashram in Rishikesh, at least for the short term courses which they call Ca...

( Updated 2020 ) If you are searching for the best ashrams in India then this guide is for you. I wrote this ashram list based on the a...

This is the Indian Ashrams Directory, a table with links to the websites of more than 30 ashrams in India that offer different kind of yoga ...

Rishikesh is such an amazing place, it is like the yoga capital of the world, the place to be when it comes to yoga. But if you've ever...

"You are very lucky to have arrived in such an auspicious day" everybody at Santosh Puri Ashram kept telling me this again and aga...

While I was still living in Europe, about two years ago, and planning my journey to India to study and practice yoga and meditation my dear...

Arsha Yoga Gayathri is small and peaceful yoga ashram in Kerala, right next to a paradise beach! It is located about two hours drive fr...

Last February I finally had the opportunity to visit my dear friend Elouise at Swami Dayananda Ashram in Coimbatore (Arsha Vidya Gurukulam) ...

( Updated 2019 ) In October 2011, after years of waiting for it, my dream finally came true. I joined the Four-Month Yogic Studies Course ...

If you are interested in yoga and volunteer work in India you might consider visiting Rikhiapeeth, an ashram in the North of India. Yo...

I came back to Rishikesh looking for an intensive yoga course but unfortunately, July is not the best month to visit India. Most yoga scho...

After over 20 days of solitude in Kukuchina , I felt I wanted to come back to Rishikesh, to "civilization" again. I didn'...

After a 14 hours journey from Rishikesh, starting at the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama Ashram , I reached the Yogoda Satsanga Sakha Ashram in...

In my opinion, the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama (SRSG) is the best ashram for meditation that you can find in Rishikesh or even all over India....

If you've ever visited any ashrams or temples in India you most likely have witnessed different forms of rituals. These rituals are...

This is how I ended two months and a half of yoga training at the Sivananda Ashram in Madurai, with the one-month Advanced Yoga Teachers Tr...