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YogAnga Retreat at Sri Santosh Puri Ashram: Explore a yogic lifestyle, where yogis were born and raised… on the bank of the sacred Ganga River in the foothills of the Himalayas (between Haridwar and Rishikesh).
Ganga Puri enjoys the privilege of being born in Haridwar (the Gate of Heaven), India, on the bank of the holy river Ganga (Ganges), in the foothills of the Himalayas.His father, Baba Santosh Puri, having become a Juna Akhara naga sanyasi at a young age, practiced severe yogic austerities on an island in the middle of the Ganga River, until he was blessed with a vision of goddess Ganga. His mother, Narvada Devi Puri Ma, was a young seeker of Truth from Germany, who arrived on the island to renounce all heritage, to devote her life to her guru and do meditation along the Ganga, and eventually take sanyas. After ten years of austerities together, Ganga Puri was born as an expected gift of Mother Ganga. His childhood passed in the company of holy men and women as his only relatives.
Ganga Puri graduated with a degree in Physics & Mathematics from the Garhwal University in Srinagar. After his father’s passing, the once student of science changed his life path, heading towards the complete devotion to the Divine Truth. Meditation and yoga practices became Ganga’s main activities.
Ganga’s seven-limbed hatha yoga practice includes: ́Saṭkarma, Asana, Mudra, Pratyahara, Prāṇayama, Dhyān and Samādhi as mentioned in ancient scripture. Designed to instill enthusiasm and discipline in aspiring yogis, as well as inspiration to maintain one’s own self-practice, Ganga’s yoga sessions bring precise alignment of the physical body, awareness of the breath as well as the prana, clarity to the mind, balance of the three gunas as well as the masculine/ feminine energies within, opening of the chakras and a heightened connection with the natural and supernatural universe around us.
Together with his younger sisters, Mandakini Puri and Alaknanda Puri, he shares responsibilities of running the spiritual heritage of his yogic family, Santosh Puri Ashram. YogAnga Retreat has developed into a Yoga Retreat Centre for spiritual research, Ayurveda and the yogic art of living, popular among foreigners who are serious about their sadhana.
With all his heart he speaks the teachings of traditional scriptural based yogic philosophy (Hatha Yoga Pradipika; Gheramd Samhita; Tantra; Yoga Sutras; Shiva Sutras, and Advaita Vedanta), embracing every individual soul. Every single day Ganga Puri brings his hands in prayer, holds space in his heart and is a living example and inspiration to many spiritual seekers, who are willing to go to the depths of practice with him.
Since 2006, Ganga has conducted annual three-month tours to teach in Europe, traveling to many countries and cities, including regular workshops in Granada, Madrid, Ibiza, and Menorca in Spain; Montpellier and Paris in France; Utrecht in Holland; Brussels in Belgium; Basel in Switzerland and Burgas in Bulgaria. In 2011 and 2012 Ganga also shared his teachings in the United States, visiting Om Factory in New York City; Ananda Ashram in Upstate New York; Shangrila Dharma Center in Seattle; and Castle Hills Yoga, (formerly Krama Yoga Center) in Dallas, Salt Lake City and Park Lake City, Utah. He also taught at several Sivananda Centers including those in Los Angeles, Grass Valley and San Francisco, California. In 2013 and 2014 he was invited to teach in various international yoga festivals, including the Berlin Yoga Festival; the Barcelona Yoga Conference.; the Indian Shanti Yoga Festival in Goa; and the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh.
