Welcome! Shiva Mandir is located in a lovely turn-of-the-century Victorian house near I-25 & South Broadway in central Denver at 1391 South Pennsylvania Street. The temple is a red brick house surrounded by a white picket fence on the west side of the corner of Arkansas Avenue and South Pennsylvania Street, which is one block east of Logan Street. If you are traveling on I-25, you can use the Washington Street exit or the South Broadway exit as the location is between both exits. Gatherings are small and friendly and each person is encouraged to participate as they like. You are always welcome!

Our Purpose: Shiva Mandir’s purpose is to bring the blessings of ancient spiritual traditions into modern life. We serve the community through educational programs, cultural enrichment and charitable service. Our goal is to bring spirituality into practical humanitarian endeavor and to bring participants into a direct and personal relationship with the Divine. We honor and support all sacred paths and teachers. 

Our Services: We offer classes, workshops, lunar and holiday celebrations, prayer and healing services and community service.  

-        Births

-        Business success

-        Children

-        Conception

-        Weddings and family blessings

-    Health and well-being

-        Legal matters

-        New beginnings

-        Planetary propitiation

    -        Rites of passage, e.g., anniversaries, birthdays,
         first menses, graduation, etc.

Prayer altar:  www.shivamandir.org is set up to receive prayer requests that are offered daily in a morning puja (click on E Temple). 

We offer on-site classes for your organization:

-        Meditation instruction

-        Sanskrit and Vedic studies

-        Yoga of music: Raga and Kirtan classes

-        Ayurveda: the science of life and longevity

-        Vaastu evaluations (the Vedic science of placement and design)

-        Vedic art: classes in spiritual and sacred art, commissioned art for homes, shrines and meditation rooms: yantra paintings, copper yantras and icon paintings 

Our History: Shiva Mandir began as a small group of friends who met regularly to meditate and study. Over time, those friends felt inspired to formally dedicate a temple to Lord Shiva. In the summer of 1997, Shiva Mandir became registered as a Colorado nonprofit 501c(3) corporation. Shiva Mandir now serves several hundred people in the community. We are an all-inclusive organization with no formal membership requirements. We are governed by a board of advisors, three officers, two supervising priests, a core of associated teachers and a founding director. Shiva Mandir operates through the loving kindness of an all-volunteer staff and donations from friends and community members. We depend on financial contributions to keep the facility operating and our organization growing. Our heartfelt aspiration is to build an expanded community center and temple building
to improve our services to the community. Donations are always needed and dearly appreciated.

Channing Johnson was raised in a family of meditation teachers and began his meditation practice at age 4. By age 9 he was participating in spiritual retreats. When he was 19 he met Swami Kaleshwar and knew instantly that he had met his master teacher. Channing lived in Swami’s Indian ashram for two years and makes frequent trips for further study. He has been a teacher for Swami Kaleshwar for nine years and travels regionally offering classes and workshops.

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Chinello Haney has taught various meditation and ancient Indian healing techniques for over 25 years.

An Ayurvedic consultant and former director of a Los Angeles based research center for natural medicine, Chinello's deepest desire has always been to bring the greatness of ancient Indian spirituality, to all parts of the world and especially to integrate its wisdom into the fabric of western life.

After being blessed with meeting Sri Kaleshwar in 1997, Chinello has spent considerable time in India under the direct guidance of Sri Kaleshwar, undergoing intensive training in the inner mechanisms of healing and soul development. Chinello was also one of the first graduates of Sri Kaleshwar’s Soul University in 2007.

Currently living in the Los Angeles area, Chinello frequently travels to Denver and other areas doing teachings and healings. Chinello holds various classes at the Shiva Mandir. srichi108@yahoo.com

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Doug Berg has been a student of yoga for over 20 years. He was at the Himalayan Institute for two years as a student of Swami Rama. He facilitates the Ramayana and Sanskrit Studies classes at this time. Doug also has a website, http://www.samadhijournal.com, where he writes about his efforts to achieve Samadhi.

Doug has a lovely wife and three children. He is an intense spiritual student and an excellent handyman. He can fix anything and indeed, has fixed many broken things at Shiva Mandir. Doug is also the technical webmaster for Shiva Mandir's website. He is much appreciated for his many talents.

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Dr. Henry Herzberger has been a teacher of meditation for the past 36 years. His experience includes teaching meditation as well as conducting teacher training courses in meditation, organizing and running meditation centers and participating in intensive courses in Vedic knowledge with advanced spiritual practices. He also has earned a degree in Vedic Psychology. Part of his work has included acoustic analysis of sounds and particular expertise in the areas of Vedic Recitation and Vedic yagya.

The applications of Vedic yagya and knowledge of Vedic sounds that Dr. Herzberger has developed have brought many practical benefits in terms of relationships, health, finance, legal and business matters. Dr. Henry Herzberger's desire is to help individuals to rise to the highest levels possible of happiness, success and spiritual development.

Dr. Herzberger contributes Jyotish Trends monthly, and sometimes visits Shiva Mandir. He conducts Yagyas and offers readings.

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Hukum Singh has been teaching and practicing Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan since 2003.  He is charged with the responsibility to lay a solid technical foundation for all students. Hukum brings knowledge, discipline, and joy together to serve and uplift.  His classes are a dynamic blend of postures, pranayam, mantra, music and meditation, which teach the art of relaxation, self-healing and elevation. Balancing body and mind enables one to experience the clarity and beauty of your soul.

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Kabir offers the following classes and kirtans. Kabir is the author of the Divine Singing CD set. He brings the depth of Indian music and devotional traditions to his many students and audiences. He serves on the Naropa University faculty. He has taught and conducted musical programs for Shiva Mandir for the past 12 years. Kabir offers voice and instrumental classes to groups and individuals. Contact Kabir for private lessons or special performances, 303-443-8029, hckabir@earthnet.net

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Nafeeah Kim has been a teacher of the Vedic and yogic traditions for 35 years with special interest and training in Ayurveda,

Raga and devotional music and sacred art, she founded a nonprofit organization in 1997 for the promotion of Vedic Studies.

Nafeeah has been studying with Kaleshwar for nine years.

She offers regular classes, pujas and initiations as a certified teacher for Kaleshwar’s knowledge. shivamandir@gmail.com

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Sara Mesmer is a dedicated Swami Kaleshwar student and certified teacher of meditation and yoga.  She has the exceptional ability to touch hearts giving each student the freedom to be all that they are.  Her love and sense of humor make it easy for students to find space within themselves to deepen and grow.  Sara is a mom, clothing designer and graduate of the Samadhi Yoga Teacher Training program. She offers knowledge classes, Bhagans, and Sai Shakti healings at Shiva Mandir as well as meditation workshops and yoga classes at Samadhi Center for Yoga. saramesmer@hotmail.com

Anna M. West is a retired volunteer/internet scribe for Shiva Mandir. She spends considerable time maintaining the Shiva Mandir website, www.shivamandir.org, and a Sufi website for the Front Range Sufi Order International, http://coloradosufievents.com.

Anna is a Vedic student, but has been a Sufi mureed with the name “Sekhmet” for many years. Anna also goes to many classes at Shiva Mandir – she is also known as the “fire goddess” (lunar pujas) although a lady named Patty is now a very adept assistant fire goddess.

Having dallied in many spiritual traditions including fundamentalist metaphysics, pagan (Wicca), quasi-Buddhist (Grace Essence Fellowship), as well as Sufism, Anna has found a spiritual home at Shiva Mandir. She thinks of herself now as a "Sufi-du." Anna loves beads and makes jewelry and malas when she’s not typing on the internet. annamayz@msn.com

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Dan Hayward was born in 1953 as a 3rd generation, non-Indian native to Colorado.  He Grew up in Denver and has been on a Spiritual Path for all of his adult life. In 1992, he began following the Lakota (Sioux) Native Way and has been honored to learn Lakota Spiritual ways from several Lakota mentors.  He Received his first Channupa (Sacred Pipe) in 1993, was given the right to perform Sweat Lodge and Channupa Ceremonies for other people in 1996, Sun Danced for 4 years beginning in 2001 and received a Lakota Spiritual Name (Tatuye Wayshaki or Many Winds Strong) in 2004. He has performed a number of Channupa Ceremonies at Shiva Mandir in the past 2 years and looks forward to sharing many more Ceremonies with all of you at this very Sacred Place.  Dan lives in Laramie Wyoming, has been a fine art and commercial Photographer for 30 years and is currently working on a couple large photo projects linked both with environmental preservation and Indian People.  Aho, Mitakoye Oyasin dhayward@wyoming.com

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John C, Mayer B.S. MA. – I'm a professional educator living in Denver and hold degrees in Biology and Archetypal Psychology. I was called to the devotion of the Divine Mother in the form of Ma Kali in 2001, and have traveled throughout India visiting many of her holy places, both as a pilgrim and volunteer. I have taught classes and workshops on spirituality as well as public rituals for the last 20 years. I am the founder of Chamunda Mandir - Denver's newest temple to the Divine Mother. chamundamandir@hotmail.com

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Kafiya Yager is a senior teacher in the Sufi Order International and the Sufi Healing Order. She facilitates monthly healing classes, zikr and Sufi studies classes.

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Qahira Michelle Beittel. Hardly a teacher, I do enjoy offering classes in the tradition of the Sufi Order International and I have taught the Dances of Universal Peace and have been immersed in the Sufi Order’s esoteric school for several years. I believe the Sufi message about the unity of religious ideals is a significant contribution to harmonizing cultures and bringing peace to our planet. In my heart I am an eternal student, but I also want everyone to partake the beauty of these teachings. I feel that the spiritual journey is a spiral, things come around again, and our hearts can open to the truths of each level. In my mountain hermitage there are pets and wild things, and great proximity to the elements of nature, so I especially love the teachings on interconnectedness of life, healing and embodied consciousness. Ziraat coordinator and healing conductor are titles which to me are like hats I'm trying to grow into.

Toward the One, the Perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty!