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Maya Tiwari (born April 16, 1952 in Liverpool Village, Guyana) is a world peace leader and author. Also called "Mother Maya," she is an international teacher of Ayurveda and the founder of the Wise Earth School of Ayurveda and Mother Om Mission.〔http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-30/holistic-living/29599273_1_food-body-natural-foods-sadhana〕 ==Biography== Maya Tiwari was born in Guyana, the daughter of Brahmin priest Pandit Bhagawan Ramprasad Tiwari, whose family originated from Lucknow, India.〔The Everyday Miracle of Healing, Shift!, Winter 2008–2009, by Elliott-Escobedo, Catherine〕 Thereafter, she became a fashion designer in New York City at the age of 18.〔New York Daily News, December 20, 1999, by Richardson, Clem〕 Her fashion and "Maya" boutique was a prominent store at 773 Madison Avenue, New York City where she served clientele like Jackie Onassis, Princess Diana, Nureyev, and Patti La Belle among other celebrities.〔http://www.mayatiwari.com/fashion-pics.php〕 Her designs were featured in stores such as Bergdorf Goodman, Henri Bendel's, and Saks Fifth Avenue to Harrods in the UK.〔http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3615〕 At the age of 25 Maya survived a five-year-long journey with ovarian cancer. "With a diagnosis of six months to live, she retreated to a cabin in the Vermont woods, returned to her Indian ancestors’ Ayruvedic roots, and employed herbs, nutrition, meditation, chanting and yoga to heal herself both physically and spiritually." 〔http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/1098865/maya-tiwari-former-high-flying-fashion-designer-reflects-on-finding-inner-peace/〕 Thereafter, she returned to her ancestral home in India to study the Vedas, Sanskrit, Yoga, and Ayurveda. Tiwari spent three years at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Saylorsburg, PA before relocating to Dayananda Ashram in her motherland of Rishikesh, India where she received her initiation as a sannyasin (Vedic monk) from her teacher, His Holiness Swami Dayananda Sarasvati. In 1981, Maya established the Wise Earth School of Ayurveda, the first school for Ayurveda studies in North America, based in the knowledge of the Greater Vedas.〔http://www.wisearth.org/ayurveda/index.html〕〔The Path of Practice, Ballantine Books, (2000, 1st Ed.) by Tiwari, Maya ISBN 978-0-345-43030-4〕〔http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2008/2154871.htm〕 On Mother's Day in 1998, Tiwari founded the Mother Om Mission (MOM), a nonprofit organization that provides Ayurveda education and services to at-risk communities in New York's inner cities and Guyana.〔http://themysticmasala.com/panchaq/maya-tiwari/〕 In December 2009, Tiwari was a featured speaker at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia. In 2010 Maya Tiwari renounced her monastic title and spiritual honorific—Her Holiness, Sri Swami Mayatitananda—to, as she puts it, “walk a simpler and more accessible life in service of the populations in need." 〔http://www.speakingtree.in/public/mothermaya/blog/Spiritual-Teacher-Mother-Maya-on-Living-Ahimsa-World-Tour〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maya Tiwari」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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