Body Mind Soul – 2 Day Bhakti Yoga Retreat for Beginners

Jai Nitai Das

Jai Nitai dasa (aka James Edwards) is from a professional background of consultancy in software / testing in the investment banking industry.

He spent 10 years as a monk studying ancient texts of India focusing on practical application in modern society.

He is now married and served for 14 years as President of ISKCON-London. He now focuses on community care initiatives, discourses and conducting samskaras.

He has conducted seminars and courses in top universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial and King’s as well as corporates such as HSBC, Barclay’s, Accenture, Ernst & Young and Clifford Chance.

Kripamoya Das

I was born in 1956 in south Wales, where my parents were both in the Royal Air Force. My father was later a policeman and, along with two brothers and a sister, I was raised as a chapel-going Methodist in a succession of small seaside villages in Cornwall.

When I was nine I told my mother I wanted to go to Tibet and become a Buddhist monk; at thirteen I discovered yoga, and the following year I became aware of the orange-clad ‘Hare Krishna people.’ I bumped into them twice during 1973, then finally listened to what they had to say in 1974. I met the founder of the Hare Krishna movement and became his student in 1975. After helping to pioneer the early Krishna movement, travelling throughout Britain and Ireland for six years, I was stationed in Kenya, tropical east Africa, for two years. I returned to England and spent three years raising funds for the various temples. For the following twelve years I co-directed ISKCON’s ‘Readers’ Services,’ serving the needs of hundreds of our members.

I’ve visited India thirty times, leading groups of spiritual travellers to many sacred places. I have an avid interest in religious history and today’s challenges and issues.

Although I’m an Englishman (Welshman), I’m a qualified Hindu priest and conduct traditional Indian weddings and other life-passage ceremonies. I help care for individual members and the many congregational groups that meet throughout England. I’ve been married for thirty-five years to Guru Charana Padma Dasi and we have three children: Jahnavi, Tulasi and Mali.

Govinda Das

Govinda dasa joined ISKCON in 1995.  He has been involved in harinam sankirtana and Hare Krsna festivals in Poland for a decade before settling in the UK.  His main service is street chanting and pujari service at Bhaktivedanta Manor.  He is a grhastha with a family and works as a structural engineer.

Padma Malini Devi Dasi

Patricia (Padma-Malini Devi Dasi) has been practicing various forms of yoga for over 30 years and loves sharing the many benefits of her practice with others.  She has been teaching yoga and yoga therapy part-time for over 20 years and is currently living in Dubai where she teaches art at a British curriculum school.