Formation of the ashram

View from the Ashram'garden

3rd May 1985. Official registration of the Charity by the Charity Commission. At this stage the Ashram was only on paper as there was no physical location.

19th June 1985. Swami Nishchalananda returned to the U.K. after 14 years in India.

12th July 1986. He and Swami Sivadhara moved into what was to become the Ashram - an old farm in South Wales.

26th July 1986. Official Inauguration of the Ashram. Swami Nishchalananda became the Director and Swami Sivadhara, the Ashram Secretary