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Devi Parvati Portrait courtesy Hindu Heritage Summer Camp
"I Stepped on an Escalator and I Had to Follow it." - The Spiritual Journey of Devi Parvati" July 07, 2022
Raised in a Jewish home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Devi Parvati breaks all kinds of stereotypes.  Today the mystic who identifies as a practitioner of all traditions describes how her life changed when she attended a retreat at an Ashram in the Poconos in 1968 and her journey to becoming a Swami.  Devi Parvati shares her family's reaction to her career as a teacher to live full-time on a communal Ashram under the supervision of Swami Lakshmi Devi and how the needs of new Indian immigrant families drew her to another calling: establishing a permanent Hindu summer camp for children.  

Devi Parvati. Founder, in 1976, of Hindu Heritage Summer Camp. She trains young camp veterans to assume leadership roles as directors and staff, oversees camp classes in philosophy and chanting, and conducts special classes, pujas, and meditation sessions for the summer camp program.