Order your copy of The Hridaya Cookbook! Explore this collection of plant-based recipes from our centers, and bring presence and intention to every meal.
Order your copy of The Hridaya Cookbook! Explore this collection of plant-based recipes from our centers, and bring presence and intention to every meal.
Visit Us in
the Heart of
Romania
In the peaceful village of Sânpetru, near the Carpathian Mountains of the Transylvania Region, there is a place dedicated to Stillness, Self-Inquiry, and the awakening of the Heart.
Hridaya Romania (known locally as Kamala Center) has been sharing the Hridaya teachings since 2007. Surrounded by the beauty of the Dealul Lempeș (Lempes Hill) Nature Reserve, with its rare wildflowers and soaring birds, it’s a space that naturally supports contemplation and inner exploration.
We offer silent meditation retreats, Hridaya Hatha Yoga, teacher training courses, workshops, and daily yoga and meditation classes. You’re invited to rediscover the beauty of the Spiritual Heart and the quiet presence within. At Hridaya Romania, you’ll find a welcoming environment led by yoga teachers with more than 40 years of experience.
All are welcome to join us and experience the depth of yoga in a setting of simplicity, warmth, and openness.
Kamala Center was founded in 1995 by Liviu Gheorghe and Simona Trandafir. Since its inception, our center has organized lectures and classes on traditional yoga, spirituality, natural therapies, and parapsychology; hosted Romania’s first yoga and astrology exhibition; opened the first herbal stores in Brașov; and offered guidance and support in these fields—all to promote and sustain the practice of yoga and spiritual growth.
That same year, we established Kamala Publishing House, publishing numerous valuable works on yoga (featuring the teachings of Ramakrishna, Anandamayi Ma, Ramana Maharshi, Nityananda, Buddha, and others), spirituality, natural therapies, and personal development.
In 2007, Kamala Center evolved into Hridaya Romania Kamala Center, co-founded by Liviu Gheorghe, Simona Trandafir, Sahajananda, Sebastian Teodor, and Veronica Godeanu. Since then, our core teachings have been Hridaya Yoga—the Yoga of the Spiritual Heart (Atman).
Also in 2007, Sahajananda held the first Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreat at our center. We’ve offered these retreats twice yearly ever since, with additional retreats being led by Hridaya Romania Kamala Center teachers—making continuous meditation retreats a tradition since 2007.
In 2015, Hridaya Romania debuted our 200-hour Hridaya Teacher Training Course in Romanian. We continue to offer this course annually and, in 2023, added a 300-hour Hridaya Teacher Training Course.
In addition to other offerings, we currently share weekly Hridaya Hatha Yoga classes in Bucharest, Brașov, and Sânpetru.
You can arrive in Brașov:
From Otopeni Airport to Brașov
Take the Henri Coanda Express from the airport to the Bucharest North station. Tickets are available at the ticket office in the Arrivals area. Trains run every 40 minutes, 24 hours a day.
From Bucharest North station, take the train to Brașov. It takes about 2 hours and 45 minutes. You can purchase tickets online or at the station. Find out more here.
You can take a shuttle bus from the airport directly to Brașov. There are several options, including DirectAirport, Kron Transfer, and Transfer Low Cost.
From Brașov to Sânpetru
After arriving in Brașov, there are two options for onward travel to Hridaya Yoga Kamala Center:
From Brașov railway station, take bus number 8 to ”Rulmentul” station (the end of the line), then bus number 420 to Sânpetru. Get off in the town center (near the historic church) and follow the map to our center. Our address is 408C Poarta Campului Street, 507190 Sânpetru, Brasov, Romania.
Uber, Bolt, and taxis are available in Brașov. Hridaya Romania Kamala Center is located at 408C Poarta Campului Street, 507190 Sânpetru, Brasov, Romania.
Hridaya Yoga Kamala Center welcomes visitors year-round, with each season offering its unique beauty. In our temperate climate, summer temperatures average 21 °C (70 °F) in August—ideal for enjoying the surrounding natural environment. Winter brings an average of -1 °C (30 °F) in December, and there are mountain resorts in the area for skiing and other winter sports.
If you come to our center a retreat or workshop, and you would also like to visit some of the inspiring places nearby, we recommend bringing the following:
Whatever you call it, it’s that which calls you to look within.
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