For millennia, Indian wisdom - Ayurveda, Yoga, Vedanta - was taught and transmitted in ashrams: through oral tradition, hands-on practice, and face-to-face learning with a guru. In recent years, ...

Megha Tolia grew up visiting the ashram, or spiritual school, that her aunt and uncle ran for nearly 60 years in Gujarat, India. “They wanted to give their life to service,” says the Dallas-based ...