Whenever Amma is at her ashram I go and sit for 45 minutes for meditation in the morning. During this time Amma comes downstairs to the meditation hall which by then is often filled with up to 150+ meditators and devotees during the tourist season. Many line up outside the hall looking through the windows when the inside seating capacity is filled.

Amma is a very tiny person not even five feet tall, wrapped in a simple light orange sari that also covers her head. When she enters the hall she comes in with her head down looking at no one and nowhere but her feet. Amma never says a word though she has given perhaps about a handful discourses in the past few years. She simply does her energy work in a very gently way working on the heart chakra. She has her routine of walking around the hall to see all meditators, briefly looks at each one’s energy field, uses mudras, hand gestures to support her work. After about 10 to 15 minutes she leaves the hall and walks up the stairs to her apartment again, the devotees continue meditation or simply leave.

Amma at times gives private darshan upon request with her son as a translator.

The Tiruvannamalai Ashram maintains a meditation hall. A second ashram is near Salem.

• Name: Shiva Shakti Ammayair Ashram
• Location: Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu
• Directions: SW of Chennai, 3.5 hours by taxi. Follow the road opp Sheshadri Ashram
• Entrance Fee: None
• Special: Darshan is held in silence
• Access: Anyone is welcome. Daily darshan during the season time in Winter from 10:00 am to 10:15 am
• Photography: Not allowed
• Spiritual Takeaway: Silence is soothing, healing, and brings you closer to the Self

In the comments below share your experience visiting this ashram. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.

UPDATE

Sri Siva Sakthi Ammaiyar attained Mahasamadhi at 11:54 pm on July 5, 2022.

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Ma Udaysree has lived six years in South India and is the organizer of Sacred Temple Journeys. She offers small group spiritual temple journeys to Tiruvannamalai, Kumbakonam, Madurai, Bidadi, and other places in South India. Udaysree is the author of ‘Living at Arunachala.’