_{Mother ༺༻ Thou art Conscious Soul Herself • Dwelling in the heart of all beings • Full of Beauty • Thou incarnateth as Life Breath in the form of Primordial Absolute Sound & Space • Nectar of Bliss • Thou art refuge showering nectar & destroying our fears in life•with deepest gratitude I serve in Your great name •}

_{• prayer to Devi Ahilyabai in the form of the Divine Mother •}

༺༻ AUM ༺༻

_{•NAMO SHRISTI MAYI MATAR • PURUSHARTHA PRADAYANI • SHUDdHA BHUDDHI PRADENTE • SARVA SAUBHAGHYA DAYANI • NAMO AHILYESHWARI • HRIDYA GUHA MADHYA VIHARANI • JAGAT SANTARINI TARE • TARAKASURA GHATINI • NAMO DEVI JAGAT DHATRI • DHANYE NARAYANA PRIYE • ABHISHI SIDDHIDE NANDE • MAHAMAYE NAMO NAMAH •}

_{Mother ༺༻ Thou art Conscious Soul Herself • Dwelling in the heart of all beings • Full of Beauty • Thou incarnateth as Life Breath in the form of Primordial Absolute Sound & Space • Nectar of Bliss • Thou art refuge showering nectar & destroying our fears in life•with deepest gratitude I serve in Your great name •}

Amma Niradhara welcomes you to SwAr Ashram Yoga & Library and sees to your safety and happiness. She took up residence in India in 2007 and took Swami Anantram’s Diksha, accepting Swami-ji as her Guru. Recognizing her dedication, Swami-ji founded Narmada Interfaith NGO (NIWS) in 2012 for Niradhara to continue his Legacy. 

In addition to managing Swamiji’s Library, she administrates education based charitable initiatives in Yogic Arts & Sciences, Traditional Cultural Arts, Computers & English (ACE). Niradhara is an Ashrama Amma (spiritual mother),  Swamini (independent teacher) &  Sannyasi (renunciate) serving as a full time Sevaka (volunteer). All her teaching transactions benefit the local community in our remote rural area.

Rev. Amma Niradhara Mari is an E-RYT500 Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, CYT300 Yoga Therapist, YACEP Yoga Education Provider, Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist CCTS-1, Reiki Master, EMDR/ TFT/ EFT Guide, Sacred Sound Therapist, Agni Hotrin, Outsider Artist & Art Therapist. She was the Digital Archivist for Baba Bhagavandas Publications Trust, a Seminarian of Liberation Theology & is an Ordained Interfaith Minister formerly guiding maximum security incarcerated women to seek Moksha (spiritual liberation).

Niradhara has studied & practiced Yoga since 1973.  She began teaching informally in 1984 & entered Ashrama life in 2002 where she was initiated into Agni Hotra. As an ardently disciplined Sadhaka, (spiritual practitioner) she was invited in 2007 by her Yajnyachara Shree (Master of Fire Rituals) to his home & Goshala (Cow Sanctuary) in India, where she became immersed in the intense Rajaswala Tapas (Menstrual Protocols) for women. Here, she found her calling, at the Riverbank of Mother Narmada, among the ancient Mandirs (Temples), on the Ghat (River steps) of the mighty Maharani (Great Queen) of the Fort which encompasses SwAr Ashram. MaharaniAhilya ruled this region & advocated for women’s rights in the 18^th century. The beloved Feminine Energies inhabiting this idyllic swathe of Nimar Valley nurture us. Rare Energy Exchanges with Visitors, like you, expand the Circle.

_{“Your Body is Your Loom on which to Weave Your Life”}    

-Rev Amma Niradhara Mari

Amma Niradhara empowers developing girls in a developing world, evolving the Feminine paradigm within it. Her Masik Chakra Shashaktikaran (Monthly Cycle empowerment)Yoga Camps cultivate self-awareness & self-acceptance. Her interest in Menarche education began with her own early experiences in Yoga as an antidote to dysmenorrhea & traumatic stress. Embarking upon her role as Amma of our Ashram, her first Satsang, titled Svaasth & Suraksha (health & safety) for Girls, addressed the practical needs to attend school after Menarche & Body Literacy. With lifelong stitching skills, Amma designed & tested sets of cloth pads specifically for rural needs. As she educates, she provides these freely since 2013. Her enlightened teachings of Striimaya Yog (Feminine Yoga) are imbued with decades of self-healing & advocacy, effectively demystifying the Arts & Sciences of Ayurveda, Yog Chikitsa, Veda-s & Nigam Tantra.

Living immersed in the inner sanctum of Indic culture forover 20 years & nearly 50 years in Yoga, Niradhara Amma has created numerous Tantra-Vedanta Courses. Most dear to her heart is Masik Chakra Yog Jnana-Vijnan, which sensitively supports culturally progressive female reproductive health & rights. With these teachings, she empowers hundreds of women & girls each year, from targeted segments in rural India such as those from lowest income & at-risk families, survivors of trafficking, domestic violence, C-PTSD & childhood trauma. She sponsors 2 young women’s college tuitions (MSW & Judicial LLD) as key role models for girl’s education.  

_{“Amma isn’t concerned with amassing followers, she is focused on creating Leaders”} 

A well-seasoned Yoga Therapist, our Amma provides individualized Yog Chikitsa for Trauma, auto-immunity & more, besides Feminine wellness. To avail her expertise, she teaches online & at SwAr Ashram. Your bookings directly fund her social work, an expression of her gratitude to India for its gift of Yoga. From widows & children to kings, every Being is a co-equal Sacred Soul in the eyes of our Amma. Since 2015, Niradhara Amma is the personal Yogacharya (Master Teacher & Consultant) for the Maharaja-s (royalty) of Madhya Bharat. Her outreach also serves the royal’s NGO for Handloom Weavers, including a Heritage Handloom Weaving School & Primary School for the Weaver’s children to optimize health & well-being through the Arts & Sciences of Yoga.

Visit Amma at SwAr Ashram.  She guides  innerYajnya, (Sacred Fire & its therapeutic technology), innerYatra (experiential tours at sacred sites), innerEvolution (holistic esoteric Yoga & Meditation techniques), Courses in Sanskrit to English Advaitic Yog Vedanta & Tantra. 

A valuable part of any Yogic Journey is homage to Mother India. Your pilgrimage to study & practice with our Amma upholds Dharmic integrity & is appreciated by our entire community.

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_{when you VISIT Swar Ashram for support with your own sadhana WHEN YOU ARE IN INDIA, you also support local girl’s access yoga & to continuing their education : contact AMMA.}

Be a Moon Mother !
Imagine a world where a girl can not even attend school because of lack of menstrual care to manage her Moon Cycle. Amma at SwAr Ashram is Mother of our girl student’s Moon Cycles. LEARN HOW you can get involved – be a Moon Mother, too.

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• Niradhara Amma’s charitable projects include:
• _{Mentoring & Empowerment program for College Girl’s (Namaste Didi)}
• _{Girl’s College Scholarship Program (via ketto .org)}
• _{Arts, Computers & English Scholar’s Program for the local youth}
• _{Charitable initiatives for local student’s Yoga in their school}
• _{Women’s Moon Cycle Yoga (Your Body is a Loom on which to Weave Your Life)}
• _{all with emphasis on Girl’s & Women’s Upliftment Advocacy (Shakti Network)}
• _{MC Shakti Girl’s Yoga & Empowerment Camp with Hygiene & Safety module, an educational program which provides a book & Amma’s own design sanitary pad sets for 108 school girls & female teachers per year.}

Amma Niradhara, E-RYT500 Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, YACEP Yoga Education Provider, Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist, Reiki Master, TFT/EFT / EMDR Guide, Agnihotri, Pranic Healer, Sound Therapist & Ordained Interfaith Minister with projects inclusive of at-risk youth, trafficking rescues, max security incarcerated women, domestic violence, chronic & childhood trauma survivors.

As a childhood trauma survivor herself, our Amma was first introduced to authentic Yoga from Swami Sivananda Lineage as it was offered by her school PE teacher, a female Vietnam Veteran who coped with that trauma by seeking out a Guru in India, subsequently sharing the Sivananda teachings with schoolgirls in 1973-5. As a barely 13 year old child, Niradhara immediately grasped the profound self-healing possible with Yoga to cope with her own childhood traumas.

She had two Decades of Yogic self-sadhana, gathering Yogic & Vedantic books in second-hand shops & rummages, before it became fashionable. Any qualified Teacher was rarely accessible. She connected to the Teachings via creating sacred expressive art as contemplative meditation as a full-time occupation.

In 2002, she was guided to Ananda Ashram, NY at the apex of a brain infection from Lyme Erlichiosis. There, her healing journey went from emotional to physical, experimenting with Hatha Yoga Therapies on her own before there was a label as such. The neurological healing came with formal Sanskrit study, (the Science of Vibration of Sound), Japa sadhana and the ancient technology of Yajnya. Within that vast community, she was blessed with numerous opportunities to study with Masters, in particular Shree Vasant. Shortly after arriving in India in 2007, she was urged by both Shree and Swamiji that she must not only take but also GIVE the Teachings.

_{“When the psyche is disturbed, work SOMATICALLY with the health of your body. When the physical form is unwell, work with the tools and teachings of breath and meditation.” ^{– Amma Niradhara}}

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_{VISIT Swar Ashram for support with your own sadhana WHEN YOU ARE IN INDIA, This supports local girl’s access yoga & to continuing their education : contact AMMA.}

• For our Guests, Amma provides :
• _{Agnihotra lessons & Yajnya offerings online & on site}
• _{Hatha Yoga & Meditation classes by donation}
• _{Private Yoga Therapies to Visitors}
• _{Yogic Immersion Pilgrimage Retreats}
• _{Yogic Events & Workshops incl Guest Teachers}
• _{Continuing education units for YA teachers as a registered YACEP}
• _{Yoga, Yajnya & Sound Therapy at the Fort hotels for guests with a room booking, by appointment.} 
• _{Access to SwAr Library – a Visitor’s Library Card with proper ID}
• _{Care & guidance before, during and after your arrival / departure from SwAr Ashram.}
• _{Trauma care & support by Yogic technologies, Yoga Therapy supports the supra-diaphragmatic nervous system/ poly-vagal response/ bilateral- binaural processing/ para-sympathetic nervous system, amygdala function & more.}
• innerYatra _{(experiencial tours at sacred sites)}
• innerYajnya _{(experience fire rituals and its theraputic as well as spiritual technology & techniques)}
• innerEvolution _{(experiences within all arms of Yoga & Meditation, Kriya, Mantra, Sanskrit scripture, Puja, Advaitic Yoga Vedanta Philosophy & Vedic Lifestyle teachings)}
• _{Amma is a Sevaka. 100% of the Yogic interactions with Guests provide the income for NIWS’s charity programs.}

Amma Niradhara is the Spiritual Mother of  SwAr Ashram under the auspices of a charitable NGO, promoting of Peace between Religions, Cultures and Economies (Narmada Interfaith). She is a resident of SwAr Ashram in our rural hamlet in MP India, for over 12 years, formerly from New York. Here, she is the resident Managing Director on its heritage property including Library, Gurukula, Yoga Shala & 2 Temples.  She founded & administrates its education based charitable initiatives for local students in Yoga, as well as traditional Arts, Computers & English (ACE), all with emphasis on Girl’s & Women’s Upliftment Advocacy (Shakti Network) – bullet listed above on this page & detailed on the link in this paragraph. 

Amma provides: innerYajnya (experience fire rituals with theraputic value, ancient pyro-dynamic technology & bio-rhythmcal techniques & is a wonderful support to a Meditation practice), innerYatra (experiencial tours at sacred sites), innerEvolution (experiences chanting mantra, Sanskrit scripture, Advaitic Yoga Vedanta teachings & Yoga Therapy all within the arms of Yoga & Meditation), she provides access to SwAr Library, as well as Yoga Therapy, Hatha Yoga & Meditation classes to Visitors by donation and scheduled Registration required Events. These Yogic interactions with our Guest Visitors provide the income for her NGO’s charities, mentioned in detail above.

When the Motherland called her hOMe, 14 years ago, Niradhara was already living Ashrama life and had given up or lost all worldly attachments. She was free. She did not hesitate to devote the rest of this life’s work to continue the work of certainly many births in India.  Here, she discovered, among the great Gurus who adopted her,  a timeless Mother, the River Narmada Herself, and a mighty Maharani (Queen) Ahilya who built the Fort that now encompasses SwAr Ashram on its easternmost corner.  Niradhara Amma recognizes these immense Feminine Energies as personal touchstones & portals to the most primordial aspects of Adi Shakti / Prakriti and viscerally felt their imprint on her own dharmic soul at her first darshan of Maa Narmada. Our Most Divine Ishtadevi Mother Narmada is ever present to nurture us & our guests here at SwAr Ashram.

Amma has helped hundreds of girls over the years, but she has one girl who is always be her side. We can not talk about Amma without including her most devoted companion, KaliTilaK, nicknamed Tilu. Swami-ji started our love for dogs when his canine companion, Tiger came to live here. Now we have Tilu to share our affection with her special Kali eye markings. She is so full of Love & enjoyment of the students. Tilu attends Aarti & morning Yoga programs, choosing her favored lucky human for the day to meditate alongside.

It is a joy opening this location to adepts, seekers and heritage loving tourists, and we are now listed on tripadvisor.com.  We form a lasting relationship of support as you become part of our Ashram family.

नर्मदे हर  ༺🔥༻ Narmade Har!

_{We employ this regional greeting in and around the Narmada River route among locals, parikramavasi-s and tourists. When we say this we recognize the Divinity of Narmada in you}.

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