Photo Gallery

Swami Rama, Anna's Life Waves guide, yoga inspiration and friend.
Photos taken at the Maha Kumbha Mela, 1974 in Rishikesh/Hardwar, India. One of the largest Spiritual gatherings attracting 15 million people to the banks of the Ganges, the river of heaven. Auspicious times for these sacred fairs are determined by the planet jupiter moving throught the zodiac. The 2001 Maha Kumbha Mela brought 70 million to Allahabad including 500 westerners to the Himalayan Institute camp.

Favorite Yoga Places and Events

Star Lake, Wisconsin Retreat Center The Yoga Tree on Star Lake Nature Trail
Star Lake, Wisconsin

2005 Medicine Wheel Retreat Medicine Wheel made by participants

By the Fire, Medicine Wheel
Weekend, 2005 2003 Fall Women's Retreat

2004 Women's Winter Yoga Retreat 2004, Skiing the Shannon Lake Trail during Winter Women's Retreat

October 2003, Retreat
"Calming Your Mind" Peak Color, Hiking the Star Lake Trail, 2003

Ladies of the Lake, Fall 2003 First Star Lake Women's Retreat,January 2003

Happy by the warm hearth, Winter 2003 Meditation at the
Gaia Waves Yoga Center, 2001

Anna and other nurses at the
Himalayan Institute Maha
Kumbha Mela camp, Allahabad,
India, January 2001. 1974, Anna and husband, Charles with
Buddhist friends in Manali, the Himachal
Pradesh region of the Himalayan foothills.
S. Rama spent 11 months in his cave retreat
there in 1968 before beginning his journey to
the West.

One of the mountain yoga adepts at the 1974 Kumbha Mela The Yoga Tree at Star Lake, Wisconsin