Ashram shopping

topic posted Mon, July 9, 2007 - 3:34 PM by  offlineLauraBeth
I've reached a point at which I think it's time for me to make my first ashram trip. I want the opportunity to get off the grid, build a meditation practice, put some greater purpose back into my yoga postures, cleanse the toxins without needing to think about it so hard, and chant my heart out. Essentially, I want to immerse myself 24/7 in a yoga experience, if only for a little while.

Problem is, I don't have any idea where to go. I don't have a specific guru whose teachings I closely follow. I don't want to book someplace in India online just on the silly assumption that hey, it's in India, so it must be good.

Can anyone recommend someplace they've gone or offer other suggestions/recommendations?

Thanks,
L.
posted by:
LauraBeth
SF Bay Area
  • Re: Ashram shopping

    Mon, July 9, 2007 - 11:53 PM
    A great start is any Sivananda ashram, they have on in SF but the ones in India are the sleep over kind. They are no non-sense places; North India is you want to go now (summer) and south India for our Winter (Oct-March).

    www.sivananda.org/locations/

    I have been to the south India ashram and really had a great time.

  • Re: Ashram shopping

    Tue, July 17, 2007 - 12:51 PM
    Hi Laura Beth,
    My name is Clayton.
    I live at the Yoga Society of San Francisco Brahmananda Ashram at 25th & Folsom.
    www.yssf.com
    Come by and visit.
    Email if you have any questions.
    OM Shanti,
    Clayton.
  • Re: Ashram shopping

    Tue, July 24, 2007 - 9:17 AM
    sounds like you might want to do a retreat rather than necessarily an ashram stay? Do you want to go to a lineage style place/guru style yoga ashram or do you want a more general retreat style experience? I ask this because of the part of your sentence that says, if only for a little while.

    Some great local options for retreat style work (and ashrams hay!).