Bhagavan Das: Valentine’s Bhakti Yoga Weekend

Baba Bhagavan Das

I left America for India in 1963 to find my guru. I was the first American to live in the jungle of the Himalayas as a hermit-sadhu. I was given the holy name of Ram by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I went off alone to the caves in the mountains to meditate. There I met Swami Chaitanya Prakashananda Tirth who gave me tapas to pray for God’s Grace. After a year of fasting, prayer and intense purification I met my Sat Guru, the Mahasiddha Neem Karoli Baba – who I lived with side by side for many years. He sent me to Anandamayi Ma to receive initiation from the Divine Mother.

Then one day, Maharaji sent me away towards Tibet to go deeper, deeper, and then beyond with the last living yogis from high in the mountain peaks of Tibet and Nepal. During my time with the Tibetan yogis, I met and lived with Lama Kalu – the guru of the 16th Karmapa. He gave me the Mahamudra transmission, mind to mind. I received the Clear Light of Primordial Awareness from His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche and then the Vajra Yogini transmission directly from the 16th Karmapa in Sikkim.

I lived with Yogi Chen who explained all the details to me in English in his hermitage in Kalimpong. When on pilgrimage to the holy Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, I met Richard Alpert who was to become Ram Dass after I brought him to Neem Karoli Baba.

I am here now by the grace of my Sat Guru Neem Karoli Baba. He led me to my precious beloved, Amulya Maa, who is always guiding me on the true path of Bodhichitta with her crystal clarity, ancient wisdom and pure love. This is It for Now.

Sarava Mangalam

Amulya Maa

Amulya Bodden aka Amulya Maa has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for more than 25 years, and dream yoga since she was a little girl. Mystic, muse and lover of life, Amulya is an advanced Vipassana meditator and bhakti yogini who deepens her practices through the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana lineage.

As an alchemist, writer, teacher and shamanic healer, Amulya facilitates transformational healings and heart path awakening through spiritual and intuitive guidance. She pierces deeply into the real grit, while transmitting a refined sense of subtleties – identifying where Self-Love is needed for purification and where the Light of awareness is most needed to integrate shadow material. One of Amulya’s greatest gifts is the ability to hold crystal clear presence and offer her clients razor sharp reflections as they journey through life-changing initiations and strip into the raw and grounded remembrance of their Authentic Self.

Amulya is an advanced craniosacral therapist, death doula, meditation instructor and soul friend. Her MS degree is in Organizational Psychology, grounding her ability to work with all people, not just those on the yogic path.

Amulya Maa has partnered with Baba Bhagavan Das and together they cultivate a sacred space for progressive holistic healing on all levels along with the conscious reactivation and realignment of creative energies. They offer devotional chanting, yoga workshops, healing retreats and powerful online sessions.

Om Mani Padme Hum