3 Day Spiritual Meditation Retreat Prema Baba Swamiji & Mataji Amma

Prema Baba Swamiji, Dr. Donald Schnell, was born on February 4th, 1955. Prema Baba Swamiji is since his birth spiritually passionate and deeply connected to the Light. At a young age Baba’s father offered him the book "Autobiography of a Yogi" and the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and Baba read and applied all these teachings. Through his memory of past lives and by activating the Kriya Yoga, Baba could control his lifeforce energies (Pranayama) and the senses (pratyahara) to stop his heartbeat and entered often into Yogic Samadhi. Baba was fascinated with hypnosis and while in middle school he was ready for the works of Milton Erickson, MD. and the books by Edgar Cayce. Baba developed himself also physically and became a member of the National Eagle Scouts association. At 16, Baba became an Eagle Scout. (The Eagle Scout is the highest achievement or rank attainable in the Scouts BSA program of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). At age 18, Baba became an initiate in the world’s oldest spiritual institution, AMORC. Baba was initiated into their advanced titles. At age 21, Baba was the founder of the Siddha Yoga Ashram in Mesa Arizona, fully approved by Swami Muktananda. In India Baba received directly from Baba Muktananda the power to give his Prema Shakti and wisdom to others. Baba was blessed by Swami Muktananda with the peacock feathers and Swami Muktananda gave him permission to open and run the ashram. In these years Baba received many devotees in the ashram including Best Selling Author of Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Joseph Chilton Pearce as Hilda Charlton the famous Yogini of Mexico. During the next decades Baba lived a more secluded life. Baba traveled back and forth to India to study and to receive the blessings of several Indian Saints, Sages, Gurus, Mystics and Yogis. During this time, Baba completed advanced education in Chiropractic including a rare doctorate in Clinical Hypnotherapy. In 1984, after Baba visited the ashram of Sathya Sai Baba in Puttaparthi, he found his guru on earth, Swami Sri Sri Nagananda. From his childhood Baba received visions from Swami Sri Sri Nagananda, he revealed himself in Baba's dreams and meditations. In 1997, Prema Baba was inwardly called to come to India. Baba went to India, and Sri Sri Nagananda sent him on a journey before he received his initiation into the Swami order. On this journey in India Baba was mystically initiated by Mahavatar Sri Babaji, the King of the Yogis. About this journey and initiation, Baba has written the book by the name: The Initiation. Babaji asked Baba to dedicate his life with the mission to helping others experience the Light within. For this mission Baba had even his own national public television show, Young For Life. This was a 26 city fundraising tour for PBS television. And Baba is featured on an Episode of GAIA TV. Beside "The Initiation", Baba coauthored two other books Fitonics and Young for Life. The three books were sold in New York to top publishing houses. Dr. Wayne Dyer, Richard Sutphen, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Roxanne Emmerich and Tony Robbins have met Baba and mentioned Baba and his work. In 2022 Baba married Swami Mataji Amma, together they are the founder of the Spiritual Yoga® Meditations and Masterclasses. With the Spiritual Yoga® Baba brings deep Meditations, Light, Blessings and Divine Love, with specific breathing exercises and a blossoming powerful energy to the West.

Swami Mataji Amma, Amy Kalama Hochreiter, has lived an extraordinary life dedicated to helping and healing others. As the oldest of five children in a Catholic household, this early religious focus shaped her youth with prayers and church attendance. When she was nine years old, while riding her bicycle with a friend, neighborhood boys threw a stone which hit her left eye. This resulted in a traumatic injury, cataract and loss of sight in that eye, as well as a month long hospital stay. Although an extroverted and happy child, Mataji Amma became introverted and self conscious for many years. This deepened her spirituality and compassion for others who were also disabled. During high school and college, Mataji Amma recovered some of her exuberance and enjoyed dance, work and school. She eventually worked in manufacturing and earned recognition as a manager in a steel mill. A stressful marriage led to further surgeries on the left eye, requiring replacement with a prosthetic. In her 30s, while at the steel mill, Mataji Amma experienced a spiritual awakening, mystical visions, intuition and returned to her Catholic faith. She learned about meditation, gemstones, other spiritual paths and entered graduate school for a Masters in Social Work. Continuing in Boulder Colorado, Mataji Amma practiced Therapeutic Touch, Sufism, and married a fellow Sufi. Their infant daughter was born at home with a major heart defect and a form of childhood cancer, neuroblastoma, in the liver, left adrenals and lung, requiring hospitalization and tube feeding for over three years. Mataji Amma practiced Reiki I and sought other healing for her daughter who did recover after chemotherapy, radiation and open heart surgery. She is now 35 years old. Although finances were a struggle God always provided a way. Thy Will Be Done and the 23rd Psalm were her guideposts. Moving to Arizona, Amma became a Reiki Master Teacher, co-developed one of the first Reiki clinics at an Arizona hospital and taught medical professionals at the UA Integrative Program. As Mataji Amma worked in Home Health and Hospice as a medical social worker, helping many in need, she also grew as an energy healer, learning more advanced methods and developed her own techniques. Mataji Amma met Prema Baba Swamiji in 2003 as a colleague at a professional seminar and later reconnected with him in Arizona in 2020. Their friendship deepened into romance and they married in June 2022. Today Mataji Amma is the co-founder of Spiritual Yoga®, and continues dedicated work towards helping others return to balance, harmony, love and God in their lives. Mataji Amma offers distant energy healing with Spiritual Yoga® Healing, integrating all she has learned to help others with what modern doctors are unable to perceive. With more than thirty years experience as a mother, MSW, Life Coach, Energy Healing teacher and ULC ordained minister, she compassionately provides sensible support backed by a wealth of spiritual wisdom and love gained over years of deeply caring for those in need.