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February 2025
Yoga and Ayurveda Weekend Retreat
with Dr. Sachin Deshmukh
January 30 - February 2, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
In this program we will introduce the foundations of Ayurveda knowledge as lifestyle medicine. You will learn easy to do daily practices and seasonal routines, nutrition and diet according to Ayurveda, your constitutional health, and sense-therapies. Combined with Yoga practice and teachings you will be empowered with the skills and knowledge to lead a healthy and regulated lifestyle.
Holistic Health Retreat: Positive Thinking for Positive Future
with Dianne Saunders (Ishwari)
January 30 - February 2, 2025
Renew your outlook on life with the ancient tools of Yoga. Learn practical and accessible Yoga techniques to open the heart, to generate positive thought patterns and to overcome negative tendencies. Our minds are saturated with information overload, especially during the current Covid-19 crisis.
Ashram Sacred Tour - Intro to Sivananda Yoga
February 2, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
This Sunday afternoon we offer a guided Ashram Sacred Tour walk, followed by an asana and pranayama class, an organic, vegetarian meal. You are also welcome to join us for satsang to have the experience of silent meditation, chanting, and a lecture.
Beginners Yoga Course, Level 1
February 4 - 9, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
This week is ideal for beginners, or those new to Sivananda Yoga. This course gives you the full yogic experience, progressively introducing yoga asanas, breathing exercises, meditation, mantra chanting and yoga philosophy and it will cover the 5 points of Yoga. You will be immersed in the daily routine of yoga and will experience wholesome vegetarian meals. You will leave rested and refreshed with the basic knowledge of how to continue to practice at home.
ONLINE - Lotus Wisdom: Daily Practices to Find Your Purpose and Inspiration
with Swami Dharmananda
February 5 - 26, 2025
ONLINE (Wednesday at 7pm) Just as the lotus is “untouched” by the water that falls from its leaf, we too can detach from the rush and stress of modern life and remain true to our own higher Self and purpose. This 4-session online retreat offers classical Yoga teachings to develop the wisdom skills of adaptability, equanimity, compassion for Self and to nurture inspiration.
Holistic Health Retreat: Prana Rejuvenation for Stress Relief
with Dianne Saunders (Ishwari)
February 6 - 9, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
Prana is life force or vital energy. By increasing our prana we can deal with life's stresses and challenges with ease and skill. We not only need to increase our prana, but we need to balance our prana, conserve our prana, channel our prana, and purify the prana as well.
Yoga Teachers Training Course in Dalat, Vietnam
with Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Narayanananda, Swami Pranavananda and Swami Adi Parashaktiananda
February 8 - March 8, 2025
This 4 week course is in beautiful Vietnam. It offers a profound personal experience, will allow you to transmit the knowledge of yoga to others. The spiritual essence of yoga is learned through a combination of repeated practice and inspirational lessons.
Kirtan & Singing for Opening the Heart
with Anandamayi Chaitanya
February 11 - 16, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
Bhakti yoga is a natural path for those who are dominantly seeking emotional fulfillment, and desire to convert worldly emotions into Divine devotion. The devotee visualizes the Lord sitting or standing before him/her. He/she pours out her heart’s love, adoration, and shares his/her deepest thoughts and concerns with the Lord until a continuous flow of awareness moves between devotee and his/her beloved Lord. This continuous flow of love brings about a a close relationship with God and culminates in Divine Union in which the worshiper and that which is worshiped become One.
Ayurvedic Massage Rejuvenation Retreat
February 13 - 16, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
The ashram is the ideal place to come relax, rejuvenate and detoxify from your daily life. This weekend provides an opportunity to receive guidance and nurturing from specialists trained in the ancient healing science of Ayurveda in the form of body treatments, consultations and daily workshops. Please call in advance to book your Ayurvedic body treatment and consultation as there are a limited number of appointments available. Participants will practice Yoga asanas (postures), Pranayama (breathing) and meditation twice daily and attend daily workshops on Ayurveda and health.
Self-love Retreat
with Lila Lolling
February 13 - 16, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
Modern life continuously pulls our awareness outside ourselves, encouraging us to seek happiness, love, and peace from the outside. As yoga teaches, these qualities exist within you, as you. This self-reflective retreat invites you to explore the areas of your life that lack self-love, while pointing you in the direction of heart-centered living. Self-love is more than theory, but a living, breathing embodied practice. When you practice self-love daily, you expand your consciousness, develop an optimistic mindset, and are able to better adapt to life’s challenges.
Raja Yoga Sutras Study Course
with Swami Dharmananda
February 18 - 23, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
Raja Yoga is the royal Yoga path of mind control and meditation. It is a natural culmination of the Hatha Yoga practice which is considered to be a step to Raja Yoga. The purpose of Raja Yoga is to bring the mind to calmness so one can realize the Self, the peace and Bliss within. Course study centers on the Raja Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Students learn to apply the classical teachings in the context of daily life, gain understanding of the workings of the mind, and learn techniques and practices to gain mastery over the mind
Beginners Yoga Weekend
February 20 - 23, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
This weekend is ideal for beginners, or those new to Sivananda Yoga. This course gives you the full yogic experience, progressively introducing yoga asanas, breathing exercises, meditation, mantra chanting and yoga philosophy and it will cover the 5 points of Yoga. You will be immersed in the daily routine of yoga and will experience wholesome vegetarian meals. You will leave rested and refreshed with the basic knowledge of how to continue to practice at home.
Pancha Karma Detoxification Therapy
with Dr. Sachin Deshmukh
February 21 - 28, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
Pancha Karma Detoxification Therapy Receive Pancha Karma at the beautiful Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, California, an ideal place to relax, rejuvenate and detoxify. Pancha Karma is Ayurveda’s elegant and highly-specialized system of purification and rejuvenation. The Pancha Karma process gets to the root cause of imbalances and works to rebalance the body, mind and […]
Karma Yoga Week
with Swami Dharmananda and Anandamayi Chaitanya
February 23 - 28, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
Karma Yoga is service done without selfish expectations. We welcome karma yogis, especially for this karma yoga week. Karma Yogis work four hours a day and have a 50% reduction on accommodations. Gardening, maintenance, building and cooking skills are especially welcome. A Permaculture Action Day will also be taking place on Tuesday, October 10th as part of the Karma Yoga Week.
Yoga Life: 4 Paths of Yoga
with Ganga Chaitanya
February 23 - 28, 2025
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm
This week is ideal for those wanted a full immersion into classical Sivananda Yoga. This course gives you the full yogic experience, progressively introducing yoga asanas, breathing exercises, meditation, mantra chanting and yoga philosophy and it will cover the 4 paths of Yoga. You will be immersed in the daily routine of yoga and will experience wholesome vegetarian meals. You will leave rested and refreshed with the basic knowledge of how to continue to practice at home.
Maha Sivaratri Festival
with Pundit Bhima, Swami Dharmananda, Anandamayi Chaitanya and Ganga Chaitanya
February 25, 2025
14651 Ballantree Lane, Grass Valley, CA 95949
Join us for a night of devotion to celebrate the Great Night of Lord Siva. Devotees perform sincere worship of Siva, the Lord of cosmic transformation, keeping all-night vigil with mantra chanting, kirtan, and pujas led by pandit Bhima Samavedula.