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Happy Jack Yoga Podcast

Happy Jack Yoga

A weekly podcast where we explore yoga, mindfulness, and spirituality.

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Vrindavanath Das | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/04/08

Meet Vrindavanath Das (Shawn Coutu) Bhakti has been a part of his life since birth. His family played an integral role in the acquisition and renovation of what is now known as the Bhakti Center in Manhattan’s East Village—a vibrant spiritual hub for seekers. As a teenager, Vrindavanath formed a personal connection with the Bhagavad-gītā, striving to understand its wisdom and apply it to his life. During a gap year between high school and college, he travelled to Vrindavan, the birthplace

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Khaustuba Das | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/04/07

Kaustubha Das serves as Senior Educator at The Bhakti Center in New York City and Co-host of Wisdom of the Sages, a daily podcast that has reached #1 in Religion and Spirituality on Apple Podcasts. Renowned for his approachable and insightful teaching style, he makes the deep wisdom of yoga philosophy accessible and relevant to modern seekers. From the age of 21 to 34, Kaustubha lived as a Vaishnava monk, immersing himself in study and practice while traveling through ashrams in India and

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Ghanashyam Das | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/04/06

Ghanashyam Das is an ordained Vaisnava Priest and Hospice Chaplain at Community Hospiceand Palliative Care in Gainesville, FL.He lived for 11 years as a brahmacari monk in New York City at the Bhakti Center before transitioning to the Hospital setting and becoming a professional spiritual care provider. At New York Presbyterian Hospital he worked conjointly with the Pastoral Care Department and Palliative Care Services for 6 years. He teaches Bhakti Philosophy and Meditation at several

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Jiva Gwen Hammond | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/04/05

Jiva Gwen Hammond was born and raised in New York City and now lives in Germany. Clean and sober for 35 years, she has been a Bhakti yogi for the past eight years. She founded the Bhakti Recovery Group and the newly established Jagai Madhai Foundation, building a worldwide community of over 200 people with more than 18 online meetings a week. Through retreats, workshops, and outreach, she integrates 12-Step recovery with Bhakti wisdom, offering spiritual and emotional healing to those in

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Bhaktimarga Swami | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/04/04

Bhaktimarga Swami, born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, is also known as The Walking Monk for having trekked four times across Canada.Keeping with the spirit of pilgrimage, he also crossed the USA, Israel, Ireland, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, and the Fiji Islands. Documentation of his Canadian walks is found in two films: The Longest Road, by the National Film Board of Canada, and Walking: The Lessons of the Road, by Michael Oesch. The Walking Monk’s pilgrimages have also been covered by

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Shyamasundar Das | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/04/03

Please meet Shyamasundar Das.A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada changed the world.When he came to America from India in 1965, few Westerners knew the deep spiritual truths behind ancient Vedic philosophy and culture.Within a decade, most humans on the planet had heard the Hare Krishna mantra. Shyamasundar das (Sam Speerstra) was one of Bhaktivedanta Swami’s earliest disciples, helping him shape the Krishna Consciousness movement in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, in London

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Yogrishi Vishvketu, Ph.D. | Harvard Bhakti Yoga...

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2025/04/02

Dr. Yogrishi Vishvketu is a world-renowned Yoga teacher trainer celebrating over 25 years of offering spiritual guidance.He has empowered more than 7,000 yoga teachers globally and founded two transformative Ashrams in Northern India—the Anand Prakash Yoga Ashram + Retreat Center and the Akhanda Sri Jungle Yoga Ashram + Retreat Center—dedicated to nurturing authentic yogic well-being and sustainable living. A dedicated yogi, philanthropist, author, and householder, his infectious laugh and

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Dayal Gauranga Das | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/04/01

Dayal Gauranga has been on a spiritual journey leading kirtans and teaching spiritual wisdom for more than 20 years. At 18 years old, he became a monk and dedicated himself to a life of inner study, reflection, and service. One year later he made his first trip to India and has since traveled back numerous times throughout the subcontinent, as well as to countries and communities around the world to learn, discover and share the richness of spiritual tradition that he has received. After 10

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Venkata Bhatta Das (Dr. Vineet Chander) | Harvard...

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2025/03/31

Venkata Bhatta Das (Dr. Vineet Chander) was born and raised in New York City and discovered the path of Krishna Bhakti in his youth, initially through the devotional community called New Vrindaban. An initiated student of His Holiness Radhanath Swami for more than two decades, he is now a sought-after speaker and teacher in his own right. He is particularly known for his ability to infuse ancient wisdom with relevant examples and avenues for application. He has offered classes and seminars

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Atreya Rishi Das (Marz Attar) | Harvard Bhakti Yoga...

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2025/03/30

Atreya Rishi Das (Marz Attar) Born in Iran 1942 Harvard Business School 1965 Met devotees 1968 ISKCON member 1970-1987 Former ISKCON GBC member Opened temple in Tehran, Iran Practicing Sufi Activist Dear friend Title of Session: Living the Life of Bhakti in this Domain of Separation Teachers/books recommended by Atreya Rishi Das: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Shaikh Sidi Mohammad al Jamal Rumi This event is hosted by ✨ Happy Jack Yoga University

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Anuttama Das | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/03/29

Anuttama Dasa is the Minister of Communications for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).He has also served as a member of ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC) since 1999 and was its chairman in 2014-2015. Anuttama Dasa was initiated into the Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1976 in Vrindavana, India. He currently oversees ISKCON temples in the Northeast United States and is member of the Executive Board for

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Sita Devi Dasi | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/03/28

Please enjoy this conversation with Dr Sandhya Subramanian, B.D.S Dental surgery, MS Psychotherapy and Counselling, aka Sita Devi Dasi Sita.Sita is a qualified dentist but very passionate about also working for the Environment and Youth and Women. She started the Bhaktivedanta Hospital Youth Foundation, under which she conducted an AIDS awareness counselling program for youth based on the culture and traditional value systems of India for a decade and impacted almost 50,000 Youth. She

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Chaitanya Charan Das | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference...

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2025/03/27

Chaitanya Charan Das: Mentor. Monk. Speaker. Spiritual teacher for nearly 30 years in the bhakti-yoga tradition through its modern-day expression, ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) Author of 30 books that explain the relevance of Vedic wisdom texts including the Bhagavad-gita and the Ramayana Author of the world’s only daily blog on the Bhagavad-gita, gitadaily.com, where he has written some 5000 articles on the Gita Invited speaker at TEDx, World Peace

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Bhanu Nandini Dasi | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/03/26

Bhanu Nandini felt an inner calling for self-realization and radically transformed her life at the age of 21. In search of the essence and true identity, she discovered the path of Bhakti Yoga in 2005 and has since lived, learned, and served in various ashrams. Her practice centers on worship, meditation, mantra chanting, and kirtan.She is deeply drawn to the power of pilgrimage, spending two months each year travelling to sacred places such as the Himalayas and Vrindavan and guiding

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Gauranga Das | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/03/26

Gauranga Das is a Btech graduate from IIT Bombay and the Director of Govardhan Ecovillage, a United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) award-winning eco-village community accredited by multiple UN bodies. He is a great chef who has set up mega kitchens and personally cooked over 3.5 million meals. During the recent Kumbha mela event, he and his team cooked over 5 million meals and served the pilgrims in a short period of one month. He leads multiple rural development initiatives

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Edwin Bryant, Ph.D | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/03/25

Edwin Bryant received his Ph.D in Indic languages and Cultures from Columbia University. He taught Hinduism at Harvard University for three years, and is presently the professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University where he teaches courses on Hindu philosophy and religion. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, published eight books, and authored a number of articles on the earliest origins of the Vedic culture, yoga philosophy, and the Krishna tradition. As a personal practitioner

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Shaunaka Rishi Das | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/03/24

Shaunaka Rishi Das is the Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, a position he has held since the Centre’s foundation in 1997. He is a lecturer, a broadcaster, and Hindu Chaplain to Oxford University. His interests include education, comparative theology, communication, and leadership. He is a member of The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, convened in 2013 by the Woolf Institute, Cambridge. In 2013 the Indian government appointed him to sit on the

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Jess Navarette | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/03/23

Jess is a Doctoral Student at Boston College working in Comparative Theology and Comparative Religion, particularly between the Hindu and Christian traditions. His current research focuses on theological resonances between Vaishnava Bhakti practices and those found within the realm of Christianity. Further specialty includes 20th Century Hinduism, North American Hinduism, and work with Hindi and Sanskrit as research languages. Jess is also engaged in interreligious dialogue and interfaith

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Raghunath Cappo | Harvard Bhakti Yoga Conference |...

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2025/03/22

Raghunath Cappo was a singer, song writer for two influential punk alternative bands in the 80s and 90s. His lyrics propounded clean living, positive thinking, animal rights, and eastern spirituality that changed the trajectory of tens of thousands of fans internationally. He lived in a Krishna bhakti ashram for 6.5 years, went on to become an international yoga teacher and now is the host of the Wisdom of the Sages podcast which has been ranked #1 by Apple Podcasts on spirituality. He

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Rajeev Srivastava & Prakash Govindan | Harvard Bhakti...

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2025/03/21

Rajeev Srivastava has over 35 years of global operating and investing experience in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. Prior to the merger of Basil Partners and Capital Square Partners, Rajeev founded Basil Partners as a family office in 2008, which invested in the IT/ITES sector and then raised a 171M institutional fund in 2018. In 2022, Basil Partners merged with Capital Square Partners to raise a 700M technology services-focused fund. Mr. Srivastava has been actively involved since the

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