We warmly invite you to the 2012 New Year's Gathering ...

This week-long retreat / festival will be a chance to celebrate the new year with an immersion into a positive spiritual lifestyle. You’ll enjoy:

• Twice daily yoga and group meditation
  
• Delicious vegetarian meals
  
• Interesting and informative workshops and talks on spirituality, yoga and other related themes, such as creativity, community and social change
  
• Evening entertainment
  
• The company of yogic monks and nuns and other people interested in spirituality
  
• A chance to join in 24-hour chanting over the New Year
  
• Beautiful surroundings
  
• Childcare for all ages
• And great company... including you?

We hope this website will answer many of your questions. If not, feel free to contact us by email or phone.

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  Contact Us
  

  For additional information, suggestions, and questions, send an email to: 2012@sdm.org
  

  or call Devashrii (Deb) on (07) 54 99 99 12
  

  (from overseas call +617 54 99 99 12)
  

  or Didi on 0413 256 950
  

  During the event you may call Tyalgum Ridge Retreat on: 02 6679 3222.

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  Seva Dharma Mission (SDM)

  Seva means service, Dharma means spirituality, and Mission means people unitedly working together for a common goal.

  SDM promotes spirituality and universalism and has for decades provided training to yoga and meditation teachers and practitioners of Ananda Marga and other traditions.

  Ananda Marga means the Path of Bliss which rightly describes the characteristics of the services offered at this New Year’s Gathering.

  Originally founded in India, SDM is in Australia a charitable institution in good standing with tax exemption. It is primarily run by volunteers and charitable donations.

• Where are we?

  Tyalgum Ridge Retreat is situated high inside the northwest perimeter of the Tweed Valley, approximately 9kms from the village of Tyalgum.

  Tyalgum can be reached from the coast via Murwillimbah or from the north through Chillingham and the Numinbah Valley - both are beautiful senic drives.
  
  From Tyalgum take Tyalgum Creek Road (runs between the Tyalgum Hotel and the service station) for 9kms. The last kilometre is a good quality gravel road. The retreat is the last property (no. 783) at the end of the road.

• We are 30 kms or 25 minutes from Murwillumbah.
• The drive from the Gold Coast Airport takes about an hour.