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Acharya Shunya is a revered teacher of ancient, timeless, transformative wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita, and the Vedic life sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga.

 

A traditionally trained master and the first female head of an ancient Vedic lineage that traces its roots back to  2,000 years ago in the holy city of Ayodhya in northern India. She is also the first woman to teach in the 21st-century West as a representative of this ancient lineage. 

She is the Founder of The Awakened Self Foundation and the nonprofit Vedika Global, Inc., platforms headquartered in Northern California that empower, educate, and inspire a global community of students through online courses, workshops, and retreats. Acharya Shunya conveys the deepest scriptural wisdom in a manner relevant to modern sensibilities and needs while losing none of their original beauty, authenticity, purity, and power.

 

Acharya Shunya’s non-dual universal teachings are directed towards people of all faiths seeking to realize their true potential. Her profound yet contemporary spiritual teachings change lives, enabling abiding happiness, wellbeing, abundance and realization of the ultimate truth.

  

Acharya Shunya was instructed in the Vedic path by her Guru and paternal grandfather, Baba Ayodhya Nath, a renowned spiritual teacher and householder saint from the holy city of Ayodhya, India, who was the son and disciple of his Guru, Paramatman Shanti Prakash, considered a living ‘seer’ of the 19th century. He was a prolific Vedic scholar and author of the renowned classic Vedic text Adi Bhagavad Gita, the revealer of infinite spiritual treasures leading to Self-actualization and Self-realization in ready seekers.

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An award-winning author of international repute, Acharya Shunya's most recent book, Roar Like a Goddess: Every Woman's Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful will be published by Sounds True in July, 2022.Her previous international bestsellers, Sovereign Self and Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom were translated into several world languages and are widely considered classics in the field of Advaita, Yoga and Ayurveda.