795 | Swami Nityananda shares the Healing Power of Yoga

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Swami Nityananda has dedicated her life and career to helping humans live in joy and freedom. She has spoken to audiences in ten countries and been a featured speaker on NPR and Radio Ireland among other platforms and podcasts. Her work has been supported by Fulbright grants, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has received other national and international awards. She was consecrated as a Swami by Swami Shankarananda in 2014.
She is the spiritual teacher and spiritual leader at Awake Yoga Meditation, a meditation community located physically in Baltimore that reaches listeners in many geographical areas. Her meditations help audiences feel calm and exuberant, and live their fullest lives, strengthening self-awareness, relationships, abundance, and well-being on every level. She teaches nondual awareness and the yogic tradition in ways accessible to contemporary audiences. A reader described her book, _Awake: The Yoga of Pure Awareness_ (2022) as "This is one of those rare books that is absolutely life-changing if you follow the principles within it."
As Juniper Ellis, she is Professor of English at Loyola University Maryland. She earned her PhD at Vanderbilt University. She has published a book, Tattooing the World, with Columbia University Press. Her teachings focus on liberation and hope.