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Welcome A U M !

AUM is the vibrational frequency of The Absolute - The Alpha, the Omega and everything in between - and also the acronym for our motto and mission in the world:

"Advancing the Unity of Mankind"

Below is the bio of our faculty and facilitators, being updated. Welcome to our ONEderful community.

We are presently located in the beautiful hills of King, Ontario, Canada, an hour north of Toronto. Thanks to daily Divine guidance, and the generous commitment of very dedicated students, we plan to take wind and expand our facilities in2008, bringing to life the dream of an eco-spiritual ashram in the lush temperate highlands of Costa Rica, near the Pacific coast.

We hope that a search through our website will answer your questions about us. If you have further questions or any suggestions, please contact us. We'd like to hear from you. Register to stay in touch, and we'll send you inspirational messages, updates of upcoming events, and news on the evolution of our beautiful AUM Ashram sanctuary.

In Loving Kindness,

Gita Ma and the Aum family

OFFERINGS

• Yoga classes: Spiritually rich, physically restoring seasonal sessions with Gitama and AUM faculty.

• Classical Mukti Yoga Teacher Training: For all levels of practice - 1 to 6 months.

• Satsangs and Kirtans: Great celebrations of Truth and Oneness through Spirited Communion.

• Reiki I, II and III - or Master level: Training Courses offered by demand.

• Reiki Healing Sessions: One on one, hands on healing by appointment.

• Ministry: Personal and Lifestyle Counseling for greater inner peace and harmony.

Meaningful loving officiant-celebrant services at key life events:

Births, baptisms, weddings, renewal of vows, hospice and funeral services.

FACULTY:

Gita Ma

Spiritually inspired since childhood, Gita Ma is founder, director and main instructor at AUM ASHRAM. Embodying what she teaches, she lovingly encourages students to live congruently with Yoga’s unifying vision for humanity, embracing all traditions as branches of the same tree, and all peoples as its many leaves. Her deep connection to Spirit spills over into all of her classes, helping students to personally seek and experience the One common source of all Innate Wisdom.

Skillfully and intuitively she draws from eastern, western, and native mystical philosophies. Having lived in a variety of different cultures has given Gita Ma great appreciation for the rich tapestry of humanity, and for the need to find a unifying approach to life that can bridge the chasm between individuals, traditions and nations. Her teachings compel us to make a commmitment to living more consciously on the Earth and in greater alignment with our spiritual nature in order to regain both personal and global harmony.

This fuels a commitment to living a more harmonious, intelligent and sustainable way of life in our evolving human communities. She is writing books on the subject, and is actively involved in AUM Ashram's evolution into an eco-spiritual, self-sufficient community in Central America, living simply in peaceful, honest and harmonious coexistence with one another and with Mother Earth.

Gita Ma’s yoga classes draw on 22 years of experience with various Yoga styles and teachers: Integral/Sivananda and Kripalu in the USA, Kriya in Canada, and Himalayan Tantra in India, giving rise to a style which students prompted naming MUKTI Yoga, or the Yoga of Liberation. She lovingly guides an intuitive practice for small groups of students, ensuring safety and maximum personal attention in the sacred energy of the AUM temple. It is in such a warm, nurturing sacred space that a gentle, natural flow of awareness settles deeply within us, guiding breath, movement and attention ever deeper into an experience of Oneness. This is meditation in action... Jai Ma!!

Ma Chetan Jyoti

Lakshmi ‘Jill Ma’ Armstrong

Lakshmi brings a great Depth of Grace, Focus, Stillness and Humor into all of her classes. She has taken Yoga with various teachers, and joined AUM Ashram in 2001-2002. Her profound love of Yoga led her to take our Yoga Teacher Training (YTT), where she shone as a natural Yogini and excellent teacher. After graduation she joined our staff at AUM and has been a regular contributor in all of our programs ever since, including our YTT, Satsangs, Kirtans, Reiki Courses and Spiritual Intensive Retreats. She is undergoing her Reiki Master mentorship, which she will complete very shortly. She founded the ‘Lotus Moon Rising’ yoga center in Nobleton, Ontario, and although she works full time in marketing right now, she is planning on joining us at the Aum Ashram in Costa Rica soon, where she will be one of our main instructors, board member, and public relations director. As if all these hats were not enough, Lakshmi and her husband Dennis raise 2 beautiful children, and are fabulous gourmet vegetarian caterers, also known as The Sapphire Gourmet. We are fortunate to have their beautiful, delicious and wholesome creations in many of our programs. The Goddess has many slender arms, but they are strong and infinitely capable, as Jill Ma's last name perfectly avows... Jai Lakshmi Ma!

Bhakti Haley and Sundeep Kumar Tyagi

A dynamic and well balanced duo, Bhakti brings a lot of Heart, Brightness and Joy into all of her classes and ‘Deep’ lovingly shares the many insights of a Jnani scholar. Since very young Bhakti’s calling was in expressive movement and Dance. She traveled through North America with her own modern dance company, and then fell in love with Yoga. She trained as a yoga teacher at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in Val Morin,Quebec, took Hatha Yoga classes with various teachers, and met her beloved Sundeep when, as a young adept Hindu priest, he was offering 6 am hatha yoga classes at a temple near her home. Bhakti joined AUM Ashram in 2001 and did her Reiki Master training with us in Sedona, AZ in October 2002. Her devotion to Yoga led her to assist in our Teachers Training for a few years. Her and Sundeep got married in a combined Christian- Hindu ceremony at AUM in 2004, hosted by our benefactor friends at beautiful Heronwood Farm.

Together they were inspired to start Freedom Yoga, a center in their community of Brampton, Ontario, where Sundeep is a priest at the Peel Arya Samaj. Through personal effort and annual fund raisers, they founded and sponsor a thriving children’s school in Sundeep’s village in India, where over 400 students attend. Soon after opening Freedom Yoga they began to offer yoga teacher’s training inspired by their work at AUM. Bhakti and Deep are joyful contributors in many of our programs, including Kirtans, Sanskrit classes, Spiritual Retreats, Teacher’s Training, Puja ceremonies, Children’s Yoga, and Partner Yoga workshops. Lightheartedness, deeply sincere spiritual devotion and joy are the trademarks of their teaching style. Jai Bhakti and Deep!!