Our partners

Sri Ram Ashram
Fieldwork will take place at Sri Ram Ashram outside Haridwar, India, a Hindu holy site on the banks of the Ganges River in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. The ashram provides a rich opportunity for MRU students to participate in the daily life at this home for abandoned and orphaned children, and to complete projects in community development, communications child development, alternative communities, impacts of poverty, and the role of religion among many possibilities. Sri Ram Ashram is active on Facebook and Instagram if you would like to access great photos and stories. The ashram also runs a website, located here.

Lovely Professional University
Our second partner is LPU a university in the Punjab region, just outside the city of Jalandhar. Staff at LPU work closely with us to develop a week of cultural activities for our group including lectures and guided tours to significant sites such as the Golden Temple in Amritsar, and the mountain city of Dharamsala, a centre of Tibetan and Buddhist culture.

The Akhanda Yoga Institute
Our newest partner is the Akhanda Yoga Institute. Because we do not wish to overwhelm the Sri Ram Ashram or the Yoga Institute with too many visitors at once, our group will divide when we arrive in Haridwar by train, with one group heading to the Ashram, and the other to the Yoga Institute. After a few days, the groups will then switch locations, which are only about 45 minutes apart. Previous students and some well-known Calgary-based yoga practitioners have practiced at Akhanda Yoga Institute and have wonderful things to say. Located in Rishikesh, the Akhanda Yoga Institute provides us opportunities to engage in additional activities while in the same beautiful city that attracted the Beatles in 1968.

Tour company support
We will have support via a tour company in Delhi. We have worked with Naresh Mahra since 2012.
Naresh not only helps us coordinate visits to the markets, mosques and historic forts of New Delhi, India’s capital city, but he is also happy to help you arrange travel prior to or following field school. You may contact him independently, reminding him you are with the Mount Royal group.

NARESH MAHRA
Cell No. +91 – 9350207476 / 9810068522
Landline +91-120-4218423 (Resi)
E-mail: naresh@sanoliindiatours.com / nareshmahra999@gmail.com / sanoliindia@gmail.com
website: www.sanoliindiatours.com

Iniskim Centre
Mount Royal University’s Iniskim Centre has been instrumental in helping the India Field School participants prepare to journey together and also come together as our journey concludes. The Medicine Trail Program coordinator, Dion Simon, helps everyone embrace the importance of cultural awareness through ceremony and knowledge sharing.

Mount Royal University International Education
Our field school is made possible because of MRU’s commitment to international education. Field school participants will enjoy a host of resources by studying International’s website, and also by talking with the coordinator, Trinda Guillet, who will join us from time to time in the lead-up to departure. Trinda’s email address is tguillet@mtroyal.ca.