Favorite ashram/meditation center in northern India?
Happy journey, Sunshine. There is lots of light waiting for you in India, that's for sure. Just go with an open mind and everything is going to open up for you.
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With Love,
-Dave
PM me any time you need something. I'm just back from a year in India and will only be traveling through you now!
With Love,
-Dave
I tried to fill in the visit request form to the Santosh Puri Ashram but i don't think it worked out. I've sent them a regular email though.
Great thread though, would love to see some more options. Because I want to stay at some peaceful (i.e. not Rishikesh) place for a week or two and learn as much as possible about myself or yoga or meditation or whatever.
Thanks
Great thread though, would love to see some more options. Because I want to stay at some peaceful (i.e. not Rishikesh) place for a week or two and learn as much as possible about myself or yoga or meditation or whatever.
Thanks
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Thank you david for your response. Can you tell me from your experience about the possibilities of the existence of such organic farms in and around uttarakhand? On a separate note, can you give me, from your own experience, an estimate of the expenditure one has to bear for lets say an year if one were to travel frequently between ashrams and maintain a wandering lifestyle? It'd be immensely helpful. I will take anything i get for as less money as possible to sustain longer.
Originally Posted by davidp80 
Hi Nillohit,
In thinking, I can't recall any work exchange gigs in ashrams at the moment. Most all just ask for a small fee and offer accommodation and food in return. Depending on where you are, you can expect to pay around 300 to 500 rupees a day for both, sometimes less.
However, I'm sure such a place exists out there somewhere. Ask around as you're traveling.
If it's not an ashram or a monastery you're set on, there are plenty of opportunities on organic farms around India that would offer you free room and board in exchange for half a days work. Some big, some small. And there are always places like Auroville in Tamil Nadu.
Depending on your perspective, this could be just as spiritually rewarding as staying in a meditation center. One man I worked for in Madhya Pradesh believed very strongly that there was no greater spiritual work than tending to vegetables.
Good luck!
Hi Nillohit, In thinking, I can't recall any work exchange gigs in ashrams at the moment. Most all just ask for a small fee and offer accommodation and food in return. Depending on where you are, you can expect to pay around 300 to 500 rupees a day for both, sometimes less.
However, I'm sure such a place exists out there somewhere. Ask around as you're traveling.
If it's not an ashram or a monastery you're set on, there are plenty of opportunities on organic farms around India that would offer you free room and board in exchange for half a days work. Some big, some small. And there are always places like Auroville in Tamil Nadu.
Depending on your perspective, this could be just as spiritually rewarding as staying in a meditation center. One man I worked for in Madhya Pradesh believed very strongly that there was no greater spiritual work than tending to vegetables.
Good luck!
Hi Sunshine,
Did you find out about women being able to stay in these local monasteries / ashrams? What about couples? Would we be allowed to stay in different rooms or same rooms?
Thanks!
Did you find out about women being able to stay in these local monasteries / ashrams? What about couples? Would we be allowed to stay in different rooms or same rooms?
Thanks!
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Hi David,
Originally Posted by davidp80 Good evening Sunshine,
It makes me happy just to address you. Good choice of name!
Delhi would be the best city to fly into if you're planning on heading right into the mountains upon arrival. No other major gateway is closer.
As to whether women are allowed, I really can't say. At both the Ki and Komic monasteries, I don't recall seeing any other women around, outside of the occasional day visitor. What I can tell you is that the Komic monastery is very small, with really only a handful of monks, whereas the Ki monastery feels like a big operation with plenty of monks both young and old.
The expert here in the forum on all-things-Spiti is Voyager61. He has been many times and has good local contacts in the area. I would try PM'ing him.
Good luck. Keep me updated.
Good evening Sunshine, It makes me happy just to address you. Good choice of name!
Delhi would be the best city to fly into if you're planning on heading right into the mountains upon arrival. No other major gateway is closer.
As to whether women are allowed, I really can't say. At both the Ki and Komic monasteries, I don't recall seeing any other women around, outside of the occasional day visitor. What I can tell you is that the Komic monastery is very small, with really only a handful of monks, whereas the Ki monastery feels like a big operation with plenty of monks both young and old.
The expert here in the forum on all-things-Spiti is Voyager61. He has been many times and has good local contacts in the area. I would try PM'ing him.
Good luck. Keep me updated.
You seem to be the right person here. Would you know any ashrams in and around rishikesh up till Gangotri
where it is ok for single women. Also i read earlier that you now prefer solitary places. Im looking for a solitary experience/silence/meditation in a green/cool/tranquil place for upto a month. Where would you recommend? Would highly appreciate.
@davidp80
Thank you for providing the infos. I am travelling to Himachal Pradesh Leh and Laddkah this May before moving to Canada. Though I would be checking some places listed by you, I would be doing a 10 day free meditation course in Dharamsala at the Vipassana Meditation Centre.(http://www.dhamma.org) I am just preparing myself for it, cause they have tough rules like No Talking for 10 days !! I hope it helps me.
Thanks!
Akshat
Thank you for providing the infos. I am travelling to Himachal Pradesh Leh and Laddkah this May before moving to Canada. Though I would be checking some places listed by you, I would be doing a 10 day free meditation course in Dharamsala at the Vipassana Meditation Centre.(http://www.dhamma.org) I am just preparing myself for it, cause they have tough rules like No Talking for 10 days !! I hope it helps me.
Thanks!
Akshat
In Uttarakhand, there is the following ashram where the swamiji is in silence -mauna- for many years, quite spartan, it is rather cold in winter:
Sadhan Kendra Ashram, villDomet, district of Dehra Dun
I was disappointed by Santosh Puris Ashram, because it was, like many other 'ashrams' in the busy part of Rishikesh, just for foreigners/tourists. attendees to the course and residents of the ashram were two different groups: we ate separately, no one was attending the meditation session before sleeping, I had to ask for it. I felt like a customer, not the member of a community. If your goal is to learn a little bit about yoga and meditation, maybe it's good, -or I can teach you that too ;-)- but they are also very expensive -15euros a day-, that is another thing that convinced me to leave. be very discriminative, because it is well known that ashrams attract money, I mean, tourists...
Sadhan Kendra Ashram, villDomet, district of Dehra Dun
I was disappointed by Santosh Puris Ashram, because it was, like many other 'ashrams' in the busy part of Rishikesh, just for foreigners/tourists. attendees to the course and residents of the ashram were two different groups: we ate separately, no one was attending the meditation session before sleeping, I had to ask for it. I felt like a customer, not the member of a community. If your goal is to learn a little bit about yoga and meditation, maybe it's good, -or I can teach you that too ;-)- but they are also very expensive -15euros a day-, that is another thing that convinced me to leave. be very discriminative, because it is well known that ashrams attract money, I mean, tourists...
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