BHAKTI YOGA CONFERENCE

Sacred Community: The Essential Role of Women

Hosted at Harvard, Oxford, and Online

Spring 2027

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A Global Online Gathering on Bhakti Yoga

At a time when many people feel fragmented, isolated, or spiritually disconnected, the 3rd Annual Bhakti Yoga Conference explores a timely and important question:

What is needed for spiritual communities to truly flourish today — and what is the role of women in shaping that future?

What would spiritual community look like if women’s voices, wisdom, and leadership were fully honored?

This free global online gathering brings together 40+ scholars, spiritual teachers, practitioners, and thought leaders to explore Bhakti Yoga—the yoga of love and devotion—as a lived, relational path practiced in community.

Across yoga communities, spiritual organizations, families, and sacred traditions, women have long carried essential roles as teachers, caretakers, practitioners, artists, leaders, and builders of community.

Yet their contributions are not always fully seen, supported, or explored.

This year’s conference opens an important conversation about the role of women in shaping the future of sacred community.

Following a global gathering of 7,000+ participants in 2026, this year's theme, Sacred Community: The Essential Role of Women, highlights profound ways women nourish, sustain, guide, and transform spiritual culture through wisdom, compassion, leadership, creativity, friendship, and devotion.

Behind nearly every thriving spiritual community are women quietly shaping its heart.

Conference Highlights:

  • Opening Gathering — Live-Streamed from Harvard Divinity School
    Featuring Dhanya Rico and Assistant Dean Laura Tuach

  • Global Online Faculty:
    Heart-centered conversations exploring devotion, relationships, spiritual practice, leadership, community-building, and the lived experience of bhakti in daily life

  • Closing Gathering — Live-Streamed from the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
    Featuring Pujya Sadhvi Bhagavati Saraswati and Her Grace Visakha Dasi.

Sessions emphasize dialogue, lived experience, and practical insight—not just theory.

An invitation to explore devotion not as a solitary pursuit, but as a shared path—and to reflect on the essential role women play in helping spiritual communities become places of belonging, care, wisdom, and transformation.

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HARVARD OPENING
March 1 | 10 am ET

Dhanya Rico, M.Ed., Ed.S., NCC
Dhanya Wellness
Laura Tuach, Assistant Dean
Harvard Divinity School

OXFORD CLOSING
April 9 | 10 am ET

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, Ph.D.
Parmarth Niketan Ashram
Visakha Dasi
Bhaktivedanta Manor

VIRTUAL SPEAKERS
Mar-Apr 2027

(alphabetical order)

Acyuta Gopi
Every Word is a Song
Adriene Mishler
Yoga with Adriene
Atreya Rishi
Shadhdhuli Sufi Tradition
Bhaktimarga Swami
The Walking Monk
Dayal Gauranga
Conscious Earth Institute
Diana Eck, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Ed Anobah
The Ed Anobah Podcast
Edwin Bryant, Ph.D.
Rutgers University
Gaby Cunemo
Capo Yoga
Gauranga Das
Govardhan EcoVillage
Ghanashyam Das
Community Hospice & Palliative Care
Gopi Kinnicutt
Bhakti Yoga DC
Hridayananda Das Goswami
Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies
Jahnavi Jivana Dasi & Kulapradipa Das
Jahnavi Music & Stanford University
Jiva Gwen Hammond
Bhakti Recovery Group
Joe Reader, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Florida
Keshava Swami
Wisdom that Breathes
Kim Waters
Forms of Devotion
Kishor, Vishvambhar & Bali
Mayapuris
Kishori Gopi & Shamyaprasa Das
Vermont Bhakti House
Kosarupa Dasi & Bada Haridas
Art of Kirtan
Krishna Kshetra Swami, Ph.D.
Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Laura Ahrens, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Florida
Lisa Miller, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Spirituality Mind Body Institute
Loren Lahav
Stay True
Måns Broo, Ph.D.
Åbo Akademi University
Madhuri Manjari
Avanti Schools Trust
Mohan Vilas Das
Govardhan EcoVillage
Monica Dabos, Ph.D.
Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies
Mother Gopi Gita
Lead. Teach. Parent.
Nirakula Devi Dasi & Vaisesika Das
Bhadra Campaign
Nitesh Gor
Dharma Endowment Fund
Parvathy Baul
Subarna Balya Hriday
Pepper Kincaid
Soul Synergy Wellness
Pranada Comtois
Exploring Bhakti Podcast
Pranapriya & Raghunath Cappo
Wisdom of the Sages
Radha Bhakti
Magic on Mira Road
Radhanath Swami
Govardhan EcoVillage
Radheshyam Das
VOICE
Radhi Devlukia
JoyFull
Radhika Das
Radhika Das
Rukmini Walker
Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue
Sacinandana Swami
Braj Care
Sage Robbins
Heart-Centered Leader
Sarah Beth
SarahBethYoga
Seane Corn
Off the Mat, Into the World
Shaunaka Rishi Das
Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Shiva Rea
Prana Vinyasa
Shyam-Nam & Christian Halper
Healy World
Sita Devi
Govardhan Skill Centre
Srimati Syamarani Dasi
Sacred Vedic Arts
Stine Dulong
SkandiHus
Syamesvari-Prema Dasi
Dance in Devotion
Vandana Shiva
Center for Humans & Nature

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