{"id":134,"date":"2011-02-26T23:34:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/?p=134"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:52:52","slug":"parmath-niketan-rishikesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/2011\/02\/26\/parmath-niketan-rishikesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Parmath Niketan, Rishikesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a rainy morning for a change, and luckily we had no early\u00a0appointment. Our next meeting was at 2:30pm with Bhagvati at the\u00a0<a title=\"Parmath Niketan, Rishikesh\" href=\"https:\/\/yoga.in\/explore\/centres-and-ashrams\/parmarth-niketan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parmarth Niketan<\/a> where\u00a0no programme was running at the moment due to\u00a0the upcoming yoga festival. Still, we could visit the facilities and see some of the 150 boys who study there, performing asanas\u00a0near the ghats of the Ganges.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Parmath Niketan, Rishikesh\" href=\"https:\/\/yoga.in\/explore\/centres-and-ashrams\/parmarth-niketan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paramarth Niketan<\/a> is a huge ashram,\u00a0maybe the biggest in Rishikesh &#8211; it can accommodate up to 1,000\u00a0guests. It was a great honour for us to meet Puja Swami, the spiritual\u00a0leader of Parmarth Niketan, for a photo shoot. Luckily the sun come out again and, after the rain, the light was just gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>We finished\u00a0our day with the Aarti Puja performed by Puja Swami &#8211; a very beautiful\u00a0evening on the banks of the holiest of all rivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a rainy morning for a change, and luckily we had no early\u00a0appointment. 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Still, we could visit the facilities and see some of the 150 boys who study there, performing asanas\u00a0near&hellip;<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/2011\/02\/26\/parmath-niketan-rishikesh\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":20013588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[185104493,6943699],"tags":[3054,33841841,309378,212453,7371],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-ashrams-centers-and-schools","category-yoga-travelling-in-india","tag-india","tag-parmarth-niketan","tag-rishikesh","tag-travel-india","tag-yoga","col-sm-6"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-large":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-large":false,"newspack-article-block-square-large":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-square-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-square-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-small":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-small":false,"newspack-article-block-square-small":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-square-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-uncropped":false,"ippo-archive-featured-image":false,"ippo-carousel-slider-image":false,"ippo-sticky-featured-image":false,"ippo-single-featured-image":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"yogadotin","author_link":"https:\/\/yoga.in\/blogs\/author\/yogadotin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"It was a rainy morning for a change, and luckily we had no early\u00a0appointment. 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