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About Us The Lotus Room offers insight, information and practical access to the wide spectrum of yoga approaches. There are several diverse systems of yoga to appeal to anyone, regardless of culture or creed. With its regular sessions of hatha yoga (postures and breathing), yoga nidra (conscious yogic sleep), dhyana yoga (meditation), mantra yoga (chanting), sambanda-jnana yoga (Vedic knowledge), bhakti yoga (love and devotion) and yoga for kids, the Lotus Room allows individuals to identify and practice the yoga system that most appeals to them in order to achieve inner fulfillment. Jenny / Jahnavi Devi Dasi I have been practicing hatha yoga since 2002. My yoga tutor recognised my sincere interest and began giving particular attention to my training and education about yoga philosophy, often over a vegetarian cooking class. I had never imagined myself as a teacher but Malini always backed me up, seeing the potential I had before I did. Eventually, friends began to ask me for informal yoga sessions and, following the opinion of my tutor, I began teaching. Yoga became my lifestyle. I visited India on two occasions, where I continued my training with him, because by this time he had left the Maltese islands. Eventually I obtained a diploma in Yoga Teacher Training. Once I had some experience of the unity of body, mind and spirit, I naturally began to enquire more deeply about the other aspects of yoga, such as karma yoga, the path of right action, and jnana yoga, the path of knowledge. Meanwhile Malini, who had been away travelling for a few years, encouraged me to visit her spiritual master, Srila BS Govinda Maharaj, in Italy during one of his World Tours. I was keen since I had heard much about him and Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math from her, but the birth of my daughter Jayanti would not allow me to travel to India in the next few years. Struck by his holy presence, I received Harinam initiation from Srila Govinda Maharaj and was given the name Jahnavi Devi Dasi. He taught me Mahaprabhu’s path of love and devotion, bhakti yoga, which is considered by the ancient Vedic scriptures of India as the topmost yoga practice. Today I continue to teach hatha yoga to my students, who are also my friends. Meanwhile, bhakti yoga has become the centre of my individual practice and I am infinitely grateful for the opportunity my masters have given me to live a life of yoga. Melanie / Malini Devi Dasi My fascination with India is partly due to its intriguing contrasts which feed my curiosity about the world and my place in it, and partly to its vast wealth of knowledge contained in the 5,000 year old Vedas. Since 2002 I have visited the country eight times, each trip (aside from the first) of duration five to six months. I had begun practicing yoga shortly after my first trip to India. I would attend classes four times a week with my best friend Jenny, who today runs the Lotus Room. Aware of our keen interest, our yoga tutor would invite us for sessions of vegetarian cooking according to yogic principles while instructing us on yoga philosophy. How deep down the rabbit hole did I want to go? My yoga practice developed to the point that my whole lifestyle was transformed accordingly. This came to a climax when I came before Swami BS Govinda at his Ashram in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. During a time when I was still downright sceptical about gurus and organised institutions in general, I quickly discovered that the yoga process of love and devotion taught by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, also known as Gaudiya Vaisnava philosophy, resonated with my own conclusions on spirituality and self-realisation, and my heart’s conviction finally won over my mind’s resistance. Subsequently I received Harinam initiation from Swami BS Govinda and I was given the name Malini Devi Dasi. Only later did I discover that bhakti yoga is considered the supreme yoga practice by India’s Vedic literature. Service life is an essential aspect of bhakti yoga, which quickly became the centre of my life. While living and serving in several branches of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, both in India and world-wide, interest in other aspects of the Vedas, particularly Ayurveda, was a natural progression. Ayurveda, like yoga, is a matter of lifestyle. Ayurveda ensures the body (the vehicle for the soul) is in good functioning order in order to achieve the four goals of life: Dharma (duty), Artha (wealth), Kama (procreation) and Moksha (liberation). The link between Yoga and Ayurveda is Prana – the life force energy. In Ayurveda it is the healing power and in Yoga it is the force of life seeking greater evolutionary transformation. Philosophy aside, both Yoga and Ayurveda provides accessible tools to natural health, which are as effective today as they were 5,000 years ago, despite the inability of modern science to prove many of the methods. While learning Ayurveda in Kerala, South India, I saw miracles unfold before my eyes: a man starting to walk when modern medicine had warned that he would never walk again, and a child with mental disease showing significant improvement in just three weeks of treatment. This evidence reinforced my conviction that I am meant to share what I have been given as my duty and service to all. Sincerely and with warm regards Malini Isabella / Indurekha Devi Dasi I received my first hatha yoga class from my daughter Jenny and I felt really overwhelmed by the experience. I gave Jenny encouragement and when she began teaching regularly I attended all her classes. Eventually I met her yoga tutor before he left the island. His demeanour really impressed and inspired me. While I continued to practice yoga with Jenny I became more interested in yoga philosophy. Jenny became interested to meet Swami BS Govinda during one of his World Tours. We had heard much about him and Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math from Malini, so I joined Jenny on a trip to Italy with baby Jayanti. Nothing could have prepared me for the experience, and I was overcome by Srila Govinda Maharaj and his beautiful disciples. I quickly realised that I did not want to miss this opportunity of receiving Harinam initiation into Mahaprabhu’s path of bhakti yoga. I was given the name Indurekha Devi Dasi. I continue to practise hatha yoga and bhakti yoga daily during group classes with my daughter and during my personal practice alone. Having realised the blessing that practising yoga with my daughter has brought into my life, I wanted to share that with my young grand-daughter and other children as well. With this inspiration I studied ways and means of teaching yoga for kids, and feel pleased to bring together a children's yoga class based on balance, acceptance, strength, breath control, relaxation and fun. Where to find Us The Lotus Room is situated in Triq il-Qamh, Zebbug, Malta. Directions to get there as follows: Coming from the main road from Rabat to Zebbug, turn around the roundabout, past the turns towards Attard and Qormi, until you see a Madonna statue. Go to it, turn left and across the road into `Triq il-Qamh`. Look for the Lotus Room sign on the fourth door from the end of the road on the right hand side.