How to Use ashram in a Sentence

ashram

noun
  • But after six weeks at the ashram the spaces between my thoughts did grow wider.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2021
  • In 1969, Stamp moved to an ashram in India.
    — Chad De Guzman, Time, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Elizabeth Gilbert wrote about one of her ashrams in Eat Pray Love.
    — Blair Glaser, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Gandhi, just released from prison, returned to his home at the ashram a few days after Gregg arrived.
    — John Charles Wooding, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Work dried up, and Stamp retreated to an Indian ashram.
    — Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • His first stop was Gandhi's home, where Trump donned a prayer shawl and removed his shoes to walk through the humble ashram.
    — Jill Colvin, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2020
  • All the other people that were there at the ashram were very sweet and respectful to the Beatles.
    — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Trump, wearing a white cloth scarf over his dark suit and gold tie, also scrawled his signature in the ashram's official guest book.
    — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The idea of self-care may be antithetical to the city’s heritage, but these treatments don’t exactly take their cues from the ashram.
    — Andrea Bennett, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2020
  • For a small donation visitors can take a coconut from the ashram, tie it to a fence post and collect it later after a priest blesses it.
    — Omar Mouallem, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • At the ashram, our days were structured around meditations, sharing thoughts with the group; meals, and a final satsang or sermon late at night.
    — Genevieve Walker, Bon Appetit, 27 Apr. 2017
  • From his adolescent years at an ashram in India, Sri Chinmoy was an advocate for world peace.
    — Ben Pryor, Outside Online, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Meditation began calling itself mindfulness and has left the ashram for the boardroom.
    — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
  • The Class remotely 6 days a week, or, in days gone by, spending over a month in silent meditation at an Indian ashram.
    — Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Only available at the ashram, and now out of print, the cassettes have long been sought by collectors, selling for as much as $450 apiece on the internet.
    — Mike Rubin, New York Times, 2 May 2017
  • Rory is defending a large movie studio against a charge that the script for its next blockbuster was stolen from a big-name star who has been cocooned in an ashram in India lo these many years.
    — Roberta Alexander, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
  • Besides pilgrims, Westerners pour in for the town’s annual yoga festival or to study in its many ashrams and ayurvedic medicine institutes.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Spartan accommodation in ashrams has made way for a Hyatt hotel and tour groups of as many as 1,200 people.
    — Kai Schultz, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Shukla emphasised that the children were not registered with the Sevadham ashram, but were living there in quarters that their mother had been given.
    — Aarefa Johari, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The cookbook included many recipes from the Bhagwan’s native country, presumably perfected on his ashram in Pune.
    — Melissa Locker, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2018
  • Satprem is a harsh taskmaster whose edicts result in conflict between the residents of Auroville and its governing body at an ashram in Pondicherry.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • Gandhian Amrut Modi, an administrator of the ashram, was at best dismissive of the whole affair.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Today, Rishikesh remains India's spiritual center, filled with ashrams and yogis, a smattering of smarter hotels at its fringes.
    — Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2019
  • First exposed to the practice as a kid growing up on an ashram in Connecticut, he’s been committed to meditating daily since 2003.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2021
  • In the decades since, rampant construction of yoga and meditation ashrams, guesthouses and hotels, cafes and shops, and headquarters for rafting and trekking companies has cluttered the hills.
    — Patrick Scott, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Or Vana retreat in India, set on the slopes of a lychee and mango plantation, is an international ashram, a wellness retreat and sanctuary.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • By the seventies Bhagwan had created an ashram—a spiritual community—in the city of Pune in India.
    — Patti Safian, Glamour, 3 Apr. 2018
  • For a spell in the 1930s, Mohandas Gandhi oversaw an ashram here, until the independence movement lured him back to lower ground.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
  • After years in the kitchen at an underground ashram in Communist Plovdiv, the native Bulgarian had gone to India to study local cooking.
    — Rachel Sugar, Bon Appetit, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Many of India’s ashrams, clinics, and retreats offer strict fasts (separately from panchakarma programs) alongside spiritual guidance.
    — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2026

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