Oakland Ashram

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Oakland Ashram is a Siddha Yoga spiritual retreat centre in Oakland, California, which is situated on the east side of San Francisco Bay.[1] The ashram was the second established by the Indian guru Swami Muktananda (the first being Gurudev Siddha Peeth, in India).[2]

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In 1975, Swami Muktananda was touring in America and decided that he needed a center where people could spend time with him. Thus, he and his devotees acquired the derelict Hotel Stanford[3] in a depressed part of Oakland, and transformed it into an ashram. According to the literature of Siddha Yoga, the presence of the ashram had a "transformative effect" on the neighbourhood, which gradually became cleaner and more pleasant.[4]

At the Oakland Ashram, in 1975, Swami Muktananda developed Siddha Yoga Dham Associates and the other organizational aspects of Siddha Yoga.[5] It was also at Oakland that the Swami started teaching his devotees about Kashmir Shaivism.[6]

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  1. ^ Cambridge Encyclopedia: Crystal (Cambridge University Press 1994) p.801
  2. ^ Brooks, Durgananda, Muller-Ortega, Mahony, Bailly, Sabharathnam (1997). Meditation Revolution: A History and Theology of the Siddha Yoga Lineage. Agama Press, 561. ISBN 812081648X. 
  3. ^ Meditation Revolution p.94
  4. ^ Meditation Revolution p.561
  5. ^ Meditation Revolution p.94
  6. ^ Meditation revolution p.96

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