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AHYMSIN Board Meeting December 2019

Reported by Divya Gupta

AHYMSIN Board Meeting December 14, 2019

The focus of this board meeting was on ensuring continuity of our mission work from the global headquarters at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama (SRSG). We are grateful to all the AHYMSIN family members who have contributed towards the sustainability of SRSG through their generous donations for various on-going projects.

The SRSG operational and financial details were shared with many ongoing activities. The construction of a new meditation hall above the existing meditation hall will soon be completed.  We were also able to expand our charitable efforts in the field of education and empowerment of differently abled individuals during the year.

• Programming
• Our newly designed retreats - Superconscious Meditation (SCM) Level-1 and Maunam: Guided Silence Practice at SRSG have been well received over the past 3 months and have resulted in an increasing inflow of guests, especially during summer.
• Plan is underway to offer Level-2 of the Superconscious Meditation retreat in the fall of 2020.
• SRSG is also planning to offer two more regular retreats; Hatha Yoga and Pranayama every month beginning from summer of 2020.
• In line with the changes in the Yoga Alliance Standards for 200 Hours certification, the HYT-TTP (Himalayan Yoga Tradition – Teacher Training Program) will undergo a test run in November 2020 and all the changes will be fully implemented by the end of 2021. All the previous students are advised to undertake their certification examinations by 2021.
• Outreach – we have plans to visit as many as 20 locations within India for our outreach efforts in the next 2 years.  If you would like to organize events locally in your home/centre/locality, kindly contact Divya at ahymsin@ahymsin.org
• We also invite and welcome our international teachers to volunteer their time and services at the ashram.
• Website
• Redevelopment of the AHYMSIN, SRSG and DMT websites are underway.
• There will be dedicated space on the new AHYMSIN website highlighting the Affiliated Centres. All the AHYMSIN Affiliated Centres are lovingly invited by the Board to share their centre’s information, with regards to the teachers, upcoming events etc., so as to be able to connect the ashram visitors with their local centres. Kindly contact Divya at ahymsin@ahymsin.org for more information. We have planned to dedicate a translated web page for all the active centres around the globe.
• The Board emphasized that the AHYMSIN Name and Logo are the legal property of the organization and can only be used by Affiliated Centres or official representatives of AHYMSIN upon prior permission from the Board and/or Global Headquarters office.

Swami Ritavan shared his vision for AHYMSIN at SRSG for the next 3 years with:

• 2021 will be dedicated to instituting our resident training program.
• In 2022, we will have our AHYMSIN Sangha Gathering along with the Kumbha Mela in Haridwar.
• 2023 will be a year of extended silence practice (two formal silence retreats of 90 days each).