Sita’s Yoga: The Yoga of Awakening

Dena Merriam began working in the interfaith movement in the late 1990s when she served as Vice Chair of the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders held at the United Nation in New York in the year 2000. She subsequently convened a meeting of women religious and spiritual leaders at the Palais des Nations in Geneva and from that gathering founded the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) in 2002. In 2008, Ms. Merriam was one of the founding members of the Contemplative Alliance, which later became a program of GPIW. For over 40 years, Dena Merriam has been a student of Paramahansa Yogananda and a practitioner of Kriya Yoga meditation. Ms. Merriam received her Master's Degree from Columbia University. In 2014 she received the Niwano Peace Prize for her interfaith peace efforts. She is the author of the book My Journey Through Time - A Spiritual Memoir of Life, Death and Rebirth, The Untold Story of Sita, When the Bright Moon Rises, Rukmini and the Turning of Time, and To Dance with Dakinis.

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for writing such a beautiful and profound book. The Untold Story of Sita was an absolute pleasure to read -every page was filled with wisdom, depth, and grace. This is the kind of literature that I truly believe should be shared with our children, not only for its storytelling but for the many life lessons it gently imparts. To me, it feels like a reference book for life-a guide to understanding the divine feminine, the human journey, and the deeper truths that shape our existence. -Bhavain Shah, UK