India 2010! 

   International Yoga Festival — February 25 - March 10, 2010!! 

Come to India to make a difference in yoga’s spiritual homeland!  Attend the

International Yoga Festival on-site and join with more than 250 students from

33 countries in a wide variety of yoga offerings.

Your destination is the Parmarth Niketan Ashram which hosts the International

Yoga Festival every year!  Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji (pictured below)

is the spiritual head of Parmarth Niketan.  Click here for a film about Pujya Swamiji.

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Pujya Swamiji: host, International Yoga Festival at Rishikesh. When the Beatles made

their famous 1968 journey to Rishikesh, India, they were following a well-worn, if little-

known, trail of seekers, sages, and spiritual pilgrims. Today, this "city of the divine" nestled

in the Himalayas has only grown in significance among yoga devotees around the world.

Thanks largely to H. H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji ("Pujya Swamiji"), Rishikesh

has become a mecca of sorts as host to the International Yoga Festival, based at his ashram,

Parmarth Niketan, since 1999. Photographed on the bank of the Ganges River near

Rishikesh. -- VANITY FAIR June 2007 “Spiritual Stretching,” 

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Travel with fellow yogins and have the opportunity to assist at

Ramana’s Garden  Orphanage and  help in delivering  much needed

educational supplies and hygiene items to the children! 

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Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa: queen of Kundalini. Kundalini is a rigorous yoga involving meditation,

chanting, and breath exercises which harmonize the body's energy centers, or chakras, and tune the

nervous and glandular systems. The glamour girl of Kundalini is Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, an erstwhile

flower child  and veteran of love-ins, whose Golden Bridge Yoga center in Los Angeles is the hub of

her empire; a second branch recently opened in Manhattan. Many Hollywood figures (Courtney Love,

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams) have taken her classes, alongside civilians who have

become addicted to the yoga's powerful positive effects on physical and psychic well-being.

Photographed in the Ganges River near Rishikish.  -- VANITY FAIR June 2007 “Spiritual Stretching,” 

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Karla’s Kundalini Yoga teacher, Gurmukh (pictured above) teaches Kundalini Yoga the entire week! 

An added bonus is a vibrant colorful shopping district right outside the steps of the

ashram.  Prices are a 10th of the cost as compared with the US!  For the inside scoop,

check out Karla’s experience at the International Yoga Festival!   

The organizer of your trip is Yogis for India, which is a chapter of

Ambassadors for Children (AFC).   Sally Brown and Karla Becker are your tour guides.  Check back for itinerary and registration info. To see info about the 2009 trip, click here: Yogis for India 2009 Trip.