Vishwa Nirmala Dharma or Sahaja Yoga International is a nonprofit organization and new religious movement established in 1970 by Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava to teach Sahaja Yoga, a meditation method.
NGOs
- An international hospital in Bombay, India, the Sahaja Yoga International Health and Research Centre using Sahaja Yoga methods. This hospital claims to have been successful in curing incurable diseases such as high blood pressure, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis.
- The International Sahaja Public School (ISPS) in Dharamsala, India.
- The Vishwa Nirmal Prem Ashram, Delhi, a project for the rehabilitation of destitute women and orphan children.
- The Shri P. K. Salve Kala Pratishthan, an academy of Indian Classical Music and Fine Arts, Vaitarna (Maharashtra)
Activities
Activities of Vishwa Nirmala Dharma in approximately seventy-five countries include:
- Free weekly meditation programs.
- Inner city programs and free drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs featuring Sahaja Yoga.
- Free Sahaja Yoga meditation programs in work environments and hospitals such as the National Institute of Health in Washington, DC, Twentieth Century Fox studios in Los Angeles, California, Motorola, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, Nortel Networks in Dallas, Texas, and Thunderbird Samaritan Medical Center and John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Patronage of the arts, through creation of the Theater of Eternal Values, Poetry Enlightened, and other projects, and through use of Sahaja Yoga.
- The performance and recording of Indian and Indian-based spiritual music through groups such as Music of Joy (Australia), Nirmal Bhakti (Switzerland), many of whose members have trained at the Shri P.K.Salve Kala Pratishthan in Vaitarna.
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New religious movements | Yoga organizations | Religious_organizations | Spirituality | Polytheism | Meditation