“When I first came, I was in a really dark place—clinically depressed, sad, anxious. What I’ve learned—it’s just life-changing. I now feel love and happiness I wouldn’t have thought possible.” —Dhruv

“Awake Yoga Meditation has had such a significant impact on my life. It’s kind of hard to describe. I think one thing I can say is that when I first started coming to Awake Yoga Meditation I was in a very dark place in my life. I had been diagnosed with clinical depression. I was really searching for a way out of feeling constantly sad, constantly anxious. And on a very surface level—maybe not so surface, but on that level—what I have learned at Awake Yoga Meditation, what I have felt through Swami Nityananda and what I have felt and learned from Swami Shankarananda and all of the community teachers and all of teachings that have come through Awake Yoga Meditation—it’s just life-changing.

I now feel a sense of connectedness and love and happiness that I wouldn’t have thought was possible five of six years ago. I will be forever grateful for the experience and the opportunity to come here, to be in community here, to have Swami Nityananda as a teacher, to be connected to this line of teachers. It’s life-changing and I hope that I am able to share even just a little bit of the love that has been poured into me. I hope that I can share some small degree of that back into the world because it’s profound and it feels amazing. Incredibly grateful.”

—Dhruv