Laura Plumb teaches Ganga Yoga with asana, pranayama and mantra during 16th International Yoga Festival at Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh.
Ganga Yoga has developed a unique approach to Asana practice that offers a passageway into healing, self-awareness, higher consciousness and liberation. Vedic wisdom informs the imagery, mantra and meditation applied in practice. Ayurveda is infused into the experience for balance, harmony, purification of this ancient wisdom, students learn to open their hearts, access their inner intelligence, deepen their compassion, expand their consciousness and liberate themselves from the stress and anxiety that permeate our modern culture.
Laura Plumb is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Teacher and co-founder of Deep Yoga. She has studied Ayurveda and Jyotish with world-renowned teachers in the East and West.
Classes with Laura are an experience of Yoga as ritual, body as temple, breath as holy gift, and movement as divine energy and exhilaration of spirit. Laura also teaches classes in Ayurvedic cooking and has created a line of Ayurvedic Botanical Oils called Prakasha. She enjoys touching the hearts of other through her beautiful singing and kirtan.
Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India organizes the annual International Yoga Festival.
The International Yoga Festival was originally a creation of Uttar Pradesh Tourism, in the days when Rishikesh was still part of Uttar Pradesh. Held at Hotel Ganga Kinare in the first week of February, the Festival ran for many years and attracted a small number of participants. In 1999, the Government of Uttar Pradesh approached Parmarth Niketan Ashram to host the Festival at the ashram. Participants were still staying at the hotels, but their classes and programs were held at Parmarth. Pujya Swami Veda Bharatiji gave inspiring discourse and led meditations. Yogasanas were taught by Yogacharya Bharat Bhushanji and his team. The Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department was led by Shri Ravindra Singh, D
