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This article is about Sahaja Yoga International (Vishwa Nirmala Dharma), an organisation.

For Sahaja Yoga meditation, see Sahaja Yoga.

Vishwa Nirmala Dharma or Sahaja Yoga International is an international[1] nonprofit organization and new religious movement established in 1970 by Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava to teach Sahaja Yoga, a meditation method. According to members, it has centers in over 75 countries[2]. Sahaja Yoga/Vishwa Nirmala Dharma is a registered Organisation in many countries such as Columbia[3](Excel spreadsheet), the United States of America[4], France[5] (has an "asso.fr" website domain reserved for organisations)[6], and Austria[7].

1 Facilities
2 Activities
3 References
4 External Links
- 4.1 Sahaja Yoga and Medicine
- 4.2 Critical Sites

[edit] Facilities

An international hospital in Bombay, India, the Sahaja Yoga International Health and Research Centre using Sahaja Yoga methods. This hospital claims to have been successful in curing incurable diseases such as high blood pressure, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis.[8]
The International Sahaja Public School (ISPS) in Dharamsala, India
The Vishwa Nirmal Prem Ashram, Delhi, a project for the rehabilitation of destitute women and orphaned children.
The Shri P. K. Salve Kala Pratishthan, an academy of Indian Classical Music and Fine Arts, Vaitarna (Maharashtra)[9]

[edit] Activities

Activities of Vishwa Nirmala Dharma include:

Free weekly meditation programs.
Inner city programs and free drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs featuring Sahaja Yoga.
Free Sahaja Yoga meditation programs in work environments, such as the National Institute of Health in Washington, DC, Twentieth Century Fox studios in Los Angeles, California, Motorola, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois, Nortel Networks in Dallas, Texas; in hospitals; and in schools and colleges [10].
Patronage of the arts, through creation of the Theater of Eternal Values, Poetry Enlightened, and other projects, and through use of Sahaja Yoga.
The performance and recording of Indian and Indian-based spiritual music through groups such as Music of Joy [11] (Australia), Nirmal Bhakti [12] (Switzerland), many of whose members have trained at the Shri P.K.Salve Kala Pratishthan [13] in Vaitarna.
Radio Programs in Sydney and other parts of Australia[14][15].