Mother Maya Mother Maya is an extraordinary spiritual teacher and a profound orator, gifted with the wondrous power of truth-lauded by Bawa Jain, Secretary General of the UN Millennium Peace Summit, as a "compassionate Mother whose ancient wisdom can be applied to heal present world crises." A living testament to the healing efficacy of her teachings, Mother Maya (Maya Tiwari) freed herself from "terminal" ovarian cancer at the age of 23. More than 25 years later-having been recognized by the Parliament of the World's Religions for her outstanding contribution to humanity-she shares the healing wisdom that literally saved her life - an inspired education currently in practice by thousands of people around the world.

Mother Maya's unique journey as a Spiritual Mother renders her accessible to all people and especially to the underserved in the world. Her simple demeanor tran-scends social, cultural, and religious boundaries. She discards outdated clichés about human spirituality while being stoic to her ancestral roots. With a quarter century worth of health, humanitarian education and wellness services to her accomplishment, Mother Maya is the founder of the Mother Om Mission, the Wise Earth School-
the first school for Ayurveda in North America, established in 1981, and the Living Ahimsa Foundation. In Living Ahimsa World Tour 2009-2012, Mother Maya introduces the extraordinary practice of The Vow of Ahimsa already taken by more than 147,000 participants around the world for the imperative awakening of personal awareness
and global consciousness.

She was a pre-eminent presenter at numerous world conferences such as the Parlia- ment of the World's Religious Leaders, Melbourne, Australia December 2009 where she appeared alongside the Dalai Lama; the Global Peace Initiative of Women's Spiri-tual Leaders, Geneva, Switzerland and the UN Millennium Peace Summit, New York, 2000. Under the nom de plume Maya Tiwari, she is the best-selling author of Women's Power to Heal through Inner Medicine; Ayurveda-a Life of Balance; Ayurveda-Secrets of Healing; The Path of Practice and her newest releases scheduled for March 2011, Living Ahimsa Diet: Nourishing Love & Life and Love! A Daily Oracle for Healing.

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Mother lives a reclusive life at the Wise Earth School in the Pisgah Mountains of North Carolina, and travels extensively throughout the world to give darshana to the physically and spiritually impaired, community advocates and social workers, inner city youths and their mentors, and all peoples and citizens who strive to contribute to the betterment of life. She has been an eminent keynote presenter at conferences such as Millennium Peace Summit Conference, New York; Women’s Religious and Spiritual Leaders Initiative, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland; Yoga Journal Conference; Noetic Science Conference, and a host of other distinguished holistic conferences in the USA.

Mother Maya is the current best-selling author of Ayurveda: A Life of Balance, the most complete work on Ayurvedic nutrition, as well as Ayurveda: Secrets of Healing, a seminal work on the Ayurvedic therapies and the definitive work on spirituality, health and healing entitled The Path of Practice-- A Woman's Book of Healing with Food, Breath and Sound, Women's Power to Heal through Inner Medicine, as well as Abundance: From Feast to Fast.

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Photographs of Beautiful Mother which were taken during the two weeks of intensive prayers and offerings observed by Mother for the ancestors and bereaved families of the world during the Tsunami-Ancestor Ceremonies.