Raseshwari Devi unveils major meditation center and camp for World Meditation Day

Raseshwari Devi has put scale at the center of her World Meditation Day push: a new yoga and meditation hall in Odisha with room for more than 1,500 people, plus a week-long camp in Haridwar expected to draw about 2,500 participants.

The Odisha project is planned near Tangi in Khurda district, not far from Bhubaneswar, and is being framed as more than a ceremonial build. The hall is intended to function as a long-term hub for meditation practice, yogic education, retreats, wellness programmes and community activities, giving local residents and visiting practitioners a place designed for regular use rather than one-off events.

The Haridwar camp is scheduled for June 11 through June 17, 2026, and its program is built to be hands-on. Organizers say it will include guided meditation, talks on yogic philosophy, wellness workshops, interactive discussions and practical meditation techniques for daily life. The expected turnout includes participants traveling from outside India, signaling that the event is being positioned as a cross-border gathering rather than a purely local retreat.

Behind both initiatives is Braj Gopika Seva Mission, the charitable organization founded by Raseshwari Devi. The mission says it works in India and abroad and describes a network that includes four ashrams and 120 nodal centres worldwide. Its materials place the organization’s origins in the late 1990s, reflecting the long arc of the group’s expansion.

Raseshwari Devi’s own path helps explain the shape of that network. She studied mathematics and English literature before renouncing worldly life in 1988 under Jagadguru Swami Shri Kripalu Maharaj. Over more than three decades, she has led spiritual discourses, meditation camps, youth outreach and social welfare work across India and overseas, building an audience that extends well beyond a single city or school of practice.

Her mission’s public teaching emphasizes Upanishadic philosophy and the principle of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, or the world is one family. A foundation page also says the foundation stone of Jagadguru Kripalu Dham was laid in 2004 at Jagannath Puri, Odisha, linking the new hall to a wider institutional footprint that already reaches near Bhubaneswar and beyond.

For meditators, the practical news is simple: World Meditation Day 2026 is not just being marked with speeches. It is being backed by a 1,500-seat hall and a seven-day camp built to bring beginners, regular practitioners and international visitors into the same shared space.