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Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati

You are not the body and mind, although you have a body and mind. You are something more.

-Brahmananda Sarasvati

Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati Udasina (Ramamurti S. Mishra) was Friend, Doctor, Teacher and Spiritual Guide to countless people from all walks of life and all parts of the world. He founded both this ashram in San Francisco and Ananda Ashram in Monroe, New York; and directly managed them, until he passed on September 19, 1993.

Shri Brahmananda’s was a life of great and tireless service and enormous accomplishment. Medical Doctor, Neurosurgeon, Psychiatrist and Professor of Medicine, Shri Brahmananda was a recognized authority on Yoga, Sanskrit, and Vedanta. Among his published works are the Fundamentals of Yoga, The Textbook of Yoga Psychology, Self Analysis and Self-Knowledge, A Translation and Commentary on Sri Shankaracharya’s Atma-Bodha.

Shri Brahmananda used his mastery of Sanskrit to teach and guide chanting for psychosomatic healing and union with the Divine. He also taught thousands of hours of intense Sanskrit language study to students of all levels.

Shri Brahmananda dedicated his life to the integration of ancient and modern, Eastern and Western sciences, culture, and philosophy, with the intention of bringing about the full realization of individual and universal peace, harmony and spiritual unity. His students at both Brahmananda and Ananda Ashrams honor his legacy today by continuing to study, practice, and live by the guidance of their dear Guru.
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2019 Yoga Teacher Training: A Month Long

yoga teacher training, meditation Become a Confident & Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga Teacher in a Month. Training takes place for a month of July , from July1st to July 31st, in 2019.
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Devi Navaratri

We invite you to celebrate Devi Navaratri - 9 Nights of celebrating the Divine Mother with chanting, music, and reading.

The word Navaratri literally means nine nights in Sanskrit and during these nine nights, nine forms of Divine Mother are worshiped

Saturday, April 6 - Sunday, April 14 2019
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
In our Cosmic Temple

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Personal Mindfulness Retreat

personal Meditation and Mindfulness Retreat A personal retreat offers an ideal way to unplug from routine and responsibilities in order to develop a mindfulness practice that you can take home and integrate into your life.
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Daily Agnihotra & Meditation

Agnihotra, Vedic Fire Ceremony, Meditation Vedic Fire Ceremony - Agnihotra and Meditation is performed for self-healing and world peace.
Please join us:
Mon. to Fri. at 7:30 – 8:00 a.m. and
7:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Sat. and Sun. at 8:00 – 8:30 a.m (ONLY)
Open for public, free of charge.
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Weekly Satsangs

Satsangs and kirtan at Yoga Society of San Francisco Our weekly Satsangs and Kirtans take place Mon. through Fri. from 8 – 9 p.m. after the evening Agnihotra and meditation. In Indian philosophy Satsang means:
  • The company of the "highest truth."
  • The company of a guru.
  • Assembly of persons who listen to, talk about, and assimilate the truth.
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Sanskrit Classes

Satsangs and kirtan at Yoga Society of San Francisco A special feature at Brahmananda Ashram is the in-depth study of the Sanskrit languageand its original texts.
"Sanskrit is the language of unity, of one humanity. It is not a worldly language, nor the language of politics, but it is the language of universal vibration. It is the language of meditation."
~ Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati
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Brahmananda Ashram's residential program offers a daily routine of group meditation, Sanskrit study, Satsangs, Karma yoga, and Hatha yoga classes. According to Sri Brahmananda Sarasvati, the founder of Yoga Society of San Francisco, “Ashram is the University of Nature. It does not only present the integration and unity of all sciences, cultures, philosophies, and environmental and ecological approaches but it also encourages and provides an opportunity for an independent way of thinking, meditation and application…
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