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Shoshoni Yoga Retreat

Also known as: Shoshoni, Shoshoni Ashram

A 300-acre residential ashram and yoga retreat center in the Rocky Mountains above Boulder, Colorado — a teacher-training school, residential ashram, and retreat center in the ShambhavAnanda Yoga lineage of Sri Shambhavananda (Babaji). Built in 1986 on the grounds of a former 1930s summer camp; staff hosting guests since 1988. The Front Range's principal residential yoga ashram.

What they do

Residential ashram practice + yoga retreat center + premier teacher-training school. The 300-acre Rocky Mountain campus offers asana, meditation, retreats, seva (selfless service), and nourishing meals in an integrated residential format. The lineage is ShambhavAnanda Yoga, founded by Sri Shambhavananda — known to students as Babaji — who led a small group of yogis to [[boulder|Boulder]] in 1975 and built the Eldorado Mountain Yoga Ashram before establishing Shoshoni in 1986 in the higher-elevation Rocky Mountain forests.

Why it’s listed

Three structural commitments:

  1. 40-year continuous lineage practice in the same Rocky Mountain valley. The continuity matters in a yoga landscape where most ashrams either dissolve under leadership-transition pressure or commercialize into resorts.

  2. Residential, not just retreat. A working ashram with a residential community is structurally different from a retreat center that hosts visiting groups. ShambhavAnanda Yoga maintains the residential model as its core, with retreats as the extension.

  3. 300 acres of protected Rocky Mountain forest. Like [[spirit-rock-meditation-center|Spirit Rock]] and Tassajara, the land itself is a substrate-builder commitment — the surrounding forest is part of the practice container, not just a backdrop.

Bioregional fit

Anchors the Rocky Mountain residential-ashram slot in the [[front-range]] bioregion’s directory. Pairs with [[naropa-university]] down in [[boulder]] — Naropa for contemplative higher education, Shoshoni for residential yoga ashram practice; together the bioregion’s two principal knowledge-care anchors.

See also

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  • Instance of: [[hatha-yoga]]
  • Member of: [[business]]
  • Contained by: [[rollinsville]] · [[front-range]]

Sources

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[front-range]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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