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    Shambhavi Chopra is one of the foremost Yoginis or women teachers of the deeper aspects of Yoga coming out of India today. She shows how yogic practices of ritual, mantra and meditation can bring the power of the Goddess into our daily lives. Her ability to express the inner Yoga secrets both in the written and the spoken word is rare, if not unique.

    Shambhavi is able to impart special tools of inner transformation that can change the lives of even ordinary people. Her clear teachings and magnetic personality have already touched the hearts of many people throughout the world, helping to awaken the Yoga Shakti within them. Shambhavi does not merely use the name or title of Yogini but has the experience of the Yoga Shakti in her own life and experience to justify it.
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  • Listen to inspiring Shambhavi's Yogini Bhava Mantra CD on You Tube

    Note her recent article in Tathaastu Magazine, Shakti Bhava: the Healing Grace in Vedic Astrology

    Yogini Shambhavi conducts regular programs with Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) of the American Institute of Vedic Studies, for which she is a co-director. She is trained in Vedic astrology and teaches special yogic methods of working with the energy of the planets, which she shares in her consultations. Go to the institute website to find out more about Shambhavi there.

    She teaches programs with the Council of Vedic Astrology (CVA), American College of Vedic Astrology (ACVA), British Association of Vedic Astrology (BAVA), National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA), Kripalu, Yogaville, Sivananda, Vedalife, Paramarth Niketan and many other organizations worldwide, and is on the advisory board for the Ananda Spa in India and the California College of Ayurveda. She offers astrological consultations and consultations for spiritual guidance in which she offers special mantras and methods of worshipping the Goddess.

     For all those seeking to learn the secrets of real Tantric Yoga and how to connect to the Goddess within their own hearts, Shambhavi's work is transformational. She brings to life the inner power of Shakti and the highest forms of the Goddess like Kali and Sundari. She initiates special sadhaks into the tradition of the Dasha Mahavidyaor 'Ten Great Wisdom Forms of the Goddess' in all their aspects and manifestations. And she does so with clarity, grace and compassion, not the hype and illusion of modern western Tantra.

    Shambhavi Chopra has written two best selling books on the Goddess in India: Yogini: Unfolding the Goddess Within (Wisdom Tree 2006) and Yogic Secrets of the Dark Goddess: Lightning Dance of the Supreme Shakti(Wisdom Tree 2007). Her books have received excellent reviews from major India publications like the Hindu, Hindusthan Times, the Pioneer, Life Positive, the Financial Times, the Asian Age, and the Hindu Business Review. In August of 2008, the Brazilian editon of Yogini was released in Sao Paulo, Brazil before an audience of more than three hundred people. She also writes regularly for Tathaastu magazine.

    Shambhavi is also a talented singer and her chanting CD Yogini Bhava, which consists of beautiful chants to the Goddess and the prime deities of Yoga and Tantra, is considered to be one of the best of its type and has enchanted people worldwide.

  • Our Special Upcoming Retreats-----
    March 7-13, 2012:     Fifth Annual Ma Ganga Yoga Shakti Retreat - Rishikesh, India. Now open for early registration. At Neemrana resort fifteen miles north of Rishikesh with private access to the Ganga. Will include the beautiful Hindu festival of Holi celebrated on the river itself as well as a day off for river rafting on the Ganga, along with classes, rituals, mantra and meditation to connect with the Shiva and Shakti energies of this region that is the homeland of classical Raja Yoga. Daily Ganga meditations and rituals.
    March 13-21, 2012:     Yogini Yatra Sacred HimalayanTour     - Ranikhet, India (near Almora). Now open for early registration. Guided pilgrimage to special temples and sacred sites in the Kumaon Himalayas seldom visited by westerners, including Jageshwar Shiva complex, Dunagiri Durga temple and Mahavatar Babaji's cave, along with special teachings from Vamadeva and Shambhavi on Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra and Vedic astrology.

  • MaGangaOur Annual Ma Ganga Shakti Retreat and Yogini Yatra

    Our fourth annual Ma Ganga Retreat from March 10-16, 2011, is now completed with more than fifty students from thirteen countries,on the Ganga above Rishikesh in a beautiful retreat setting with private access to the river. Its theme was Soma, Rejuvenation and Immortality, exploring revitalization of the body, mind and spirit in light of our eternal essence of consciousness, using the tools of Ayurveda, Jyotish, Veda and Tantra. The retreat was followed by our second Yogini Yatra from March 16-24, 2011 featuring special tours and classes at important temples in Ranikhet, Dunagiri, Jageshwar and Mahavatar Babaji's cave.The Yatra had around thirty students from all around the world.

  • Tathaastu Magazine Articles of Shambhavi:
    Note her feature article Empowering the Yogini Shakti in Every Woman, in Tathaastu Magazine
    The Cosmic Waters and the Flow of Ma Ganga, Aug.-Sept. 2009
    The Soma of Universal Delight, April - May 2009
    Yogini: the Enlightened Woman, Oct.- Nov. 2008
    Invoking the Divine Within, Dec. 2008 - Jan. 2009
    Unfolding the Harmony of Bliss, Feb. - March 2009

    Quotes About Shambhavi
    Shambhavi writes with the heart of a devotee, the soul of poet, and the insight of a sage. Meditating on the names and qualities of KALI she carries us into the living presence of the Dark Goddess. Kali's awesome glory and unstoppable grace reverberate from every page.
    Linda Johnsen

    Shambhavi brings us the Goddess in all her mystery and majesty as the deepest power of our own awareness. The book is a perpetual dance of lightning, uncovering the hidden meaning of our lives and the deepest urges of our souls.
    David Frawley

    The transformational power of the feminine is revealed in Shambhavi's remarkable exploration of Gddess Kali. At this juncture in humanity, awakening the feminine offers hope that we can re-establish the balance of forces on Earth for the benefit of all.
    Deepak Chopra

    Experience the transformative grace of the Goddess in your own hearts through Shambhavi's luminous vision of Ma Kali in as the Universal World Mother.
    Prof. Lokesh Chandra