Three Western women of the Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh during the 1950s

Three Western women of the Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh during the 1950s

Sivanada with Western devotees    • Sivananda with Western devotees  

Eremitin Umashankaranand Giri alias Rose Schmitt, devotee of Sivananda    • Eremitin Umashankaranand Giri alias R...  

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Sylvia Hellman was born in Germany in 1911, immigrated to Canada in 1951 and became a Canadian citizen. A visionary experience led her to her guru, Swami Sivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh. At his ashram, she received intense training in the philosophy and practices of yoga, and in 1956 she was initiated into the sacred order of Sannyas to become Swami Sivananda Radha. At her guru’s request, she returned to the West to establish an ashram for the study of yoga. She went on to found the first ashram in Canada in Burnaby BC and opened the Yoga Vedanta Bookstore on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver. The ashram moved to its present location in Kootenay Bay BC in 1963 and is known as Yasodhara.

https://ashramsofindia.com/photos/ Der Ruf (The Call) is the story of a German woman, Charlotte Walinski-Heller who came into telepathic contact with Swami Sivananda in 1950, was trained by him for 3 years and then went to India in 1953 to spend 5 months in his ashram. Der Ruf was self-published on September 8, 1954 in honor of Swami Sivananda’s birthday in Nuremberg. The book contains a foreword by Swami Sivananda, it describes her visions, mystical experiences, her inner call and how these mystical experiences took her to Rishikesh. The book mainly documents the time spent in India and how Sivananda guided and instructed her spiritually. Swami Sivananda Sarada founded and directed the Sivananda Sarada Ashram Lindau, founded in 1954.

https://ashramsofindia.com/photos/ An English woman, Hilary Perry-Keene (nee Dawbarn) lived in the Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, for about 6 years (from 1956) whilst her husband Roger (d Dec 1993), was working as a pilot in India. She spoke highly of the magnanimity of Swami Sivananda and his work. She and her husband moved went to Cairns, Australia in the 1960s, settling in Mt Molly to help spread the message of Sivananda. She passed away peacefully on the 20th of October, 2018 Aged 97 years.

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