Ma Yoga Shakti, previously known as Preeta Brahmacharini, the Director of Himalayan Heritage Center For Yoga and Holistic Health, was initiated into sanyas in January, 2008, by Dr. V. Anand Swami, at the Swami Rama Foundation Trust Ashram in Haryana, India. Mataji has been a Yoga Therapist, Teacher, and Holistic Counselor for Himalayan Heritage in the Atlanta area since 2001. Following a career as a school social worker, she began studying yoga in 1975, with H.H. Sri Swami Rama, who founded the Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy. Swami Anand is a disciple of Swami Rama, and he established the Swami Rama Foundation Trust in India and the Swami Rama Foundation of USA. Mataji was a resident student at the Himalayan Institute for twenty years, and spent three years in India, learning, practicing, teaching yoga and studying the science of Ayurveda. She has been named as a Trustee to both the aforementioned Foundations. (See www.swamiramafoundationofusa.org and www.srfoundation.com.)
In the Atlanta area, Mataji has been teaching at Emory Center for Lifelong Learning, LA Fitness Sports Clubs, and
at the Nuts 'n Berries Health Food Store/Yoga Studio. She also teaches in Alpharetta.
Ma Yoga Shakti
For further information on classes, Ayurvedic Herbs or Books, etc.,
call 678-352-8119
or write to Himalayan Heritage, P.O. Box, 920584, Norcross, GA 30010.