Dec. 12-19: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it <!-- document.write( '</' ); docum- Kauai, Hawaii: A special retreat at a beautiful Kerala sytle retreat center Kauai's beautiful North Shore. Limited to twenty people. Special interaction with Vamadeva and Shambhavi and visits to sacred sites on the island. Please email Shambhavi's office for more information and registration forms.

May 3 - 8 - Medicine Crow Retreat, Grass Valley CA - For five days, you will learn from the leading experts in the world of botanical medicine as they teach about one of the most urgent and important topics of our time. This dynamic and life-changing event is unlike anything being offered anywhere in the field of natural healing. Featured Teachers Include: David Frawley, Yogini Shambhav.
June 2 - 5 - Journey Into Healing with the Chopra Center - Asheville, North Carolina. Vamadeva and Shambhavi will join Deepak Chopra and his staff for their Ayurvedic training program including special classes on the Wisdom of Herbs and Tonification and Rejuvenation. Vamadeva has taught regularly with the Chopra center over the last fifteen years and helps with their Ayurvedic Practitioner Training as well.
June 22 - 26 - Mantra Yoga and Primal Sound - Yogaville, Virginia. Special program with Vamadeva and Shambhavi based upon Dr. Frawley's most recent best selling book and Shambhavi's Yogini Bhava mantra CD. Will explore deeper practices of bija mantras, pranayama, and meditation rarely taught in the West, with reference to Veda, Tantra, Ayurveda and Vedic astrology. Will be our most extensive teaching program in the United States this year.
August 19 -21 - Toronto Yoga Festival - Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Dr. Frawley and Yogini Shambhavi will give a series of keynote talks and classes on Yoga, Shakti, Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology and Hinduism as part of an important conference featuring a number of important speakers and teachers from throughout the world and from Canada
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We are happy to announce that our fourth annual Ma Ganga Retreat from March 10-16, 2011, is now completed with more than fifty students from thirteen countries,on the Ganga above Rishikesh in a beautiful retreat setting with private access to the river. Its theme was Soma, Rejuvenation and Immortality, exploring revitalization of the body, mind and spirit in light of our eternal essence of consciousness, using the tools of Ayurveda, Jyotish, Veda and Tantra. The retreat was followed by our second Yogini Yatra from March 16-24, 2011 featuring special tours and classes at important temples in Ranikhet, Dunagiri, Jageshwar and Mahavatar Babaji's cave.The Yatra had around thirty students from all around the world.

We are planning the same events in 2012, with the Ma Ganga Retreat from March 7-13, 2012 and the Yogini Yatra from March 13-21, 2012. More details on to follow in the near future. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Ma Ganga Shakti Yoga Retreat

A Shakti Celebration

Secrets of Soma, Rejuvenation and Immortality!
Rishikesh, India, March 10 - 16, 2011
With Pt. Vamadeva Shastri (Dr. David Frawley) and Yogini Shambhavi

Experience the mystical Shakti of the ancient Himalayan Yoga along with its great powers of rejuvenation and transformation through mantra, pranayama, devotion and meditation in a beautiful secluded setting on the banks of Ma Ganga. Learn important keys to Raja Yoga, Ayurvedic medicine, Hindu Tantra and Vedic astrology with special sadhanas, rituals, fire ceremonies, Yogini Bhava chants, Ganga Snana and sacred dance forms.

Learn to connect with the Devi and with the presence of Shiva throughout all aspects of your life and being, with an experience to take with you for a life time. Spend six days deepening your Yoga Shakti guided through sacred practices designed to awaken the higher Self and empower the flow of divine grace within.

The Fourth Ma Ganga Shakti Retreat is a special yearly event hosted by the American Institute of Vedic Studies for sadhaks, seekers, Yoga, Ayurveda and Jyotish students worldwide. It is located at a beautiful retreat center on the Ganga River twenty five kilometers above the holy city of Rishikesh, India, in a serene location surrounded by the Himalayan foothills in a private narrow valley. It occurs in the beautiful month of March when the region is in its spring bloom of warm days and pleasant nights.

Pt. Vamadeva Shastri (Dr. David Frawley) and Yogini Shambhavi guide the participants in a yogic celebration of Shiva and Shakti as living realities woven into the entire fabric of life, offering daily classes, workshops, satsangs and discussions. The teachings are rendered in the traditional gurukul manner, outdoors sitting under Lychee trees laden with flowers with the roaring Ganga as background music.

The theme of this year's retreat will be Soma, Rejuvenation and Immortality, exploring physical revitalization, psychological transformation in order to connect with our eternal essence beyond all death and sorrow. We will examine how to work with the various Somas of body, senses, prana, mind and consciousness through the five koshas and five elements. There will be special daily themes devoted to Tantra, Shiva, Shakti, Ayurveda, Vedic astrology and Vedanta.

Venue

The program is located at the famous Neemrana resort above Rishikesh, which inspires one with its pristine settings of orchards and gardens by the River Ganga where individual cottages give privacy and gourmet vegetarian meals are a delight, set outside on the verandah. We rent out the entire facility, so there are no outside disturbances. The resort is close by the famous Vasishta Guha (meditation cave) that we will also visit one of the days, and is part of an old royal property frequented by Anandamayi Ma and many other great gurus and yogis over the past century.

You will come into contact with a broad range of spiritual aspirants from North and South America, Europe and India, and every walk of life who will gather together to share their experiences and come into contact with the great Yoga Shakti of the Himalayas.

Nearby Rishikesh offers a variety of ashrams and their various programs, notably the International Yoga Festival at Paramarth Niketan in Rishikesh (March 1-7), where both Vamadeva and Shambhavi will be speaking. This important conference occurs the week before the retreat and features Yoga teachers from all over the world. Swami Dayananda, Swami Veda Bharati, and Swami Ramdev also have ashrams in the area that feature important teachings and programs as do many great gurus and teachers in this, the spiritual homeland of Yoga.

For more information note our full flier and registration form.

Note Recent News and Itinenary section from the American Institute of Vedic Studies for Shambhavi's 2010 programs.

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2010 Third Annual Ma Ganga Retreat and New Yogini Yatra Tour

We are happy to announce our third annual Inner Tantric Yoga Experience: Ma Ganga Retreat, March 9-14 2010. It will feature deeper teachings for serious students and sadhaks and special interaction with Vamadeva and Shambhavi by the sacred Ganga river in a beautiful, quiet resort above Rishikesh, with private access to the sacred river. The program will bring in new teachings, practices and rituals. Shambhavi will give out special mantras and introduce her new chanting CD. Join us for this unique experience.

The retreat will be followed by a ten day Yogini Yatra Tour, March 14-25, 2010 to Himalayan Shakti temples. The tour will focus on special temples in the Kumaon region above Almora, in the Ranikhet, Binsar, Jageshwar and Dunageri areas, including a special stay at the Binsar Nature Preserve at 7000 feet. It will include special rituals and meditation at various temples, as well as sight seeing and exploring the beauty of the Himalayas. Registration is limited to twenty participants. Preference will be given to retreat participants but others are welcome.

OTHER 2010 PROGRAMS

Feb. 13-15: Sivananda Ashram, Nassau, Bahamas - Ayurveda, Yoga and Tantra: How to Bring the Deity into Your Sadhana.

Feb. 16-19: Journey Into Healing, Phoenix, Arizona, with Deepak Chopra and David Simon - Ayurvedic Psychology: the Healing of Consciousness, for Journey into Healing, Phoenix, Arizona.

April 15-18, 2010: NAMA conference: Ayurveda Complimentary Global Medicine - Tantra and Ayurveda, Vamadeva and Shambhavi are both featured speakers, San Francisco, California.

April 22-26: British Association of Vedic Astrology (BAVA) - Ayurvedic Astrology, the Vedic astrology of Healing, for BAVA yearly national conference, London.