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Tapovan: a thatched hut among coconut palms, drawn in ink, with the word तपोवन beneath.Tapovan
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A white water tower marked “Om Shanti” at the gate, with the striped dome, mango rows and a white building behind.

About Tapovan

An ashram among fields, run as a centre for natural healing.

Tapovan Yog & Naturopathy Center — "Tapovan Ashram" — stands on the Valia–Netrang road at Pathar, in Bharuch district, Gujarat. It was established by the Vishwa Kalyankari Mahajyoti Trust.

Our aim

  • To allow everyone the experience of good health by nurturing a connection with Mother Nature, body cleansing and detoxification, improvement in mental health and emotional state, and with knowledge on a balanced lifestyle, healthy habits and right and wrong food combinations.
  • To bring about a change in living — not only at the level of diet, but at the level of thoughts as well.
  • To allow people to be healthy and strong — physically, mentally and emotionally. Dependence on a person, or even on medicine, is a form of weakness.
The campus from the air: red-tiled roofs, solar panels, the blue-striped dome of Shanti Kutir, mango orchards and ploughed fields reaching to the hills.

About Tapovan

  • Pollution-free environment
  • Peaceful spiritual vibrations
  • Green fields and fruit farms
  • Satvik diet by organic farming
  • Cowshed
  • Beautiful mornings with birds chirping, and welcoming nature
Shanti Kutir from above — a long white hall with a blue-and-white striped barrel roof among palms, beside a green lawn with a fountain.

About the centre

  • Various room categories — AC and non-AC, with 1, 2 or 3 beds; general rooms with 6 or 10 beds
  • Indoor and outdoor dining
  • “Shanti Kutir” for meditation
  • Different activities for refreshment
  • Natural healing coupled with yog sadhana

Still growing — the new building in the monsoon.

The white building under grey monsoon clouds, a curved black road leading to it, green crops in front and a yellow digger at the door.
Tapovan is a working ashram, and it is still growing: some of the photographs show new buildings rising among the fields.
The emblem of the Vishwa Kalyankari Mahajyoti Trust: a lamp above the globe, ringed by leaves and flowers.

The Trust and our helpers

Established by Vishwa Kalyankari Mahajyoti Trust.

Voluntary service by Triloki Naturopathy: