Sri Sri 1008 Sri Paribrajakaya

Acharya Swami Ananda Leela Mata Giriji

Mahamandaleshwar Panch Dashanam Juna Akhara

Initiation: Purnasannyasa

Date: February 15, 2010

Location: Haridwar, India, Kumbh Mela

Initiation conducted by: Swami Vishnudevananda Giriji Maharaj Mahamandaleshwar Panch Dashanam Juna Akhara, Kapil Advait Somnath Giri Mahayogi Pilot Babaji Maharaj Mahamandaleshwar Panch Dashanam Juna Akhara

Initiation: Mahamandaleshvara

Date: February 8, 2013

Location: Allahabad, India, Acharya Jun Akhara's Camp

Initiation by: Acharya Panch Dashanam Juna Akhara Avdeshananda Giriji Maharaj

Swamini Ananda Leela Giri (born 1972) is a Mahamandaleshvar of the Juna Akhara order (India), rector of the ashrams of the Sanatana Dharma World Community. Mahant "Avadhuta-siddha ashram" (India), mahant "Chitra-amrita ashram".

Practicing yoga for almost 30 years. She has completed over 20 retreats, including one annual retreat in 2007 and several long-term dark retreats.

Ananda Leela began her yoga practice in 1991, in 1999 she became a student of the enlightened Russian-speaking yoga master Swami Vishnudevananda Giri in the Advaita Vedanta tradition. Between 2001 and 2009, Ananda Leela served as an ashram manager in Russia. In 2010, at the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar (India), she took purna sannyasa and initiation into the Juna Akhara order. In 2013, at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, she was initiated into the status of a Mahamandaleshwar of the Juna Akhara order with the namo-diksha Sri Sri 1008 Sri Paribrajakaya Acharya Swamini Ananda Leela Giri Ji. She is the first European woman to receive the high spiritual status of mahamandaleshwar.