International Yoga Day Weekend Retreat
with Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Dharmananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda and Acharya Mangalananda
June 20 - 23, 2024
Come celebrate International Yoga Day with a weekend at the Ashram. Recharge yourself with the practice of the 5 Points of Yoga encompassing a holistic approach to health and healing. We will have special workshops on practical Yoga topics to enrich your understanding and deepen your Yoga practice whether you are a beginner or advanced practitioner. Enjoy nature walks, helping in our garden, visit our temples and shrines taken care of by Pandit Bhima, and connect to the Yoga Farm’s community of sincere practitioners and teachers.
We are blessed to welcome our longtime friend Acharya Mangalananda for his inspired kirtan singing and devotion.
Daily Schedule
Thursday, June 20
2pm Arrival
4-6pm Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30pm Satsang: meditation, chanting and lecture
Friday, June 21
6-8am Satsang: Silent meditation, chanting and lecture
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
1pm – International Yoga Day Talk
4-6pm Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30pm Satsang: Kirtan Concert with Acharya Mangalananda
Saturday, June 22
6-8am Satsang: Silent meditation, chanting and lecture
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
1pm – Workshop:
4-6pm Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30pm Satsang: Ashram Talent Show
Sunday, June 23
6-8am Satsang: Silent meditation, chanting and lecture
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
1pm – Workshop:
4-6pm Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30pm Satsang: Sunday Prayers
About the Teachers
Acharya Swami Sitaramananda
Swami Sitaramananda is a senior acharya of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and is director of the Sivananda Ashram Vedanta Yoga Farm, California and the Sivananda Yoga Resort and Training Center, Vietnam. She is acharya of China, Taiwan, and Japan as well. Swamiji is the organizer and teacher of the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET) program, an 800-hour program on yoga therapy, […]
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Swami Jnaneswariananda
Swami Jnaneswariananda joined the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in 1995 and has been director of centers and ashrams in Canada and Italy. She teaches Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Anatomy, and Vedanta at Teacher Training Courses in North America, Italy and India. Swami Jnaneswariananda took vows of Sannyas in 2001. She is currently a senior teacher at […]
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Swami Dharmananda
Swami Dharmananda is assistant director of the Yoga Farm and is in charge of the Karma Yoga program. He is a faculty of the Sivananda Institute of Health (SIHY) and is one of the main teachers of Yoga Philosophy and Meditation at the Ashram. He took sannyas vows in 2013 and is keenly interested in […]
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Swami Adi Parashaktiananda
Swami Adi Parashaktiananda is a dedicated Sadhak and an experienced international Sivananda Hatha Yoga teacher and trainer in international TTC in USA, Vietnam , Japan and China for more than twelve years. He mainly serves as assistant to Acharya Swami Sitaramananda at the Sivananda Ashram yoga Farm in Grass Valley California and at the Sivananda […]
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Acharya Mangalananda
Magalananda began his spiritual life in 1972 under the guidance of Swami Satchidananda, a direct disciple of Swami Sivananda. After an inner experience with Anandamayi Ma, the great woman Saint mentioned in Yogananda’s “Autobiography of a Yogi”, with Sw. Satchidananda’s permission, he went to India to find her. He travelled with her in India during […]
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