Swami Jaya Devi makes the toolkit of mindful living accessible, easy-to-understand and relevant. She herself, embodies the practices in a manner that makes you want to meditate. Her teaching style sparks curiosity about how to use these practices to fill your cup so you do not and cannot run dry.
Considered a teacher of teachers and leaders, Swami’s wisdom shines through her. As the founder and head of a thriving spiritual community, Swami Jaya Devi embodies a blend of formal monk’s training with a lived, metropolitan experience. With insatiable curiosity and a powerfully open heart, she has both retreated from the world in silent contemplation and fully engaged in the world, loving and serving people from all walks of life. This gives her a unique ability to honor, connect with and understand those longing to experience their own inner aliveness, one person, one moment, and one breath at a time.
Swami has a great depth to her – it’s palpable – but her profound presence is combined with a down-to-earth sense of humor and an ability to love in outrageous situations. This makes her brand of depth and wisdom accessible, jubilant, inspiring and very real.
Working with Swami Jaya Devi is an invitation into authenticity. With a deft, experienced hand, she guides you to step into real presence, which ignites your own growth process. You will see the patterns that no longer serve you emerge. As you release them, you embody your true self – powerful and unencumbered by old habitual, self-limiting behaviors.
Working with leaders and leadership groups, Swami guides each person into an understanding of how powerful mindful leadership can be. Thriving individuals create a thriving environment. The tools of mindful leadership benefit the individual, the team and the culture.
Swami Jaya Devi was officially recognized as a Swami or sanyassin in 2008. She was also given the titles Acharya – revered teacher, and Yoga Acharya – esteemed teacher of yogic wisdom. She holds the highest degrees in Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Kali Natha Tantric Yoga. Swami is the founder of the non-profit Kashi Atlanta Urban Yoga Ashram, Street Meals, KidsArt and the Prison Yoga Project. At the height of the AIDS epidemic, she was the first teacher in the Southeast to offer Contemplative Arts for People with AIDS and HIV+. With a passion for empowering marginalized individuals, Swami has trained and certified over 500 yoga, breathwork and meditation teachers, many from the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities.
Swami loves and fully claims her own humanity, remaining dedicated to learning and evolving her own awareness and practice. She doesn’t advocate perfection, but instead aims to spark curiosity, conversation and growth. Swami loves to laugh and sees our collective way forward through compassion, kindness, forgiveness and connection.
Swami Jaya Devi has a passion for connecting with and empowering marginalized individuals and it is evident in how she approaches her work. She has trained and certified over 500 yoga teachers, many from the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. She fully claims her own humanity, remaining dedicated to learning and evolving her own awareness and practice. Swami is not an advocate for perfection, but for compassion, kindness, forgiveness and connection.
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