Labor Day Weekend: Integrated Health & Relaxation Retreat
with Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda, Swami Dharmananda, Heera Kulkarni, Shreelata Suresh and Dr. Sachin Deshmukh
August 30 - September 2, 2024
Description
Join us for our Integrated Health & Relaxation Retreat as we take time in the beautiful nature of the Yoga Farm. We close the summer with this special program with Swami Sitaramananda and the senior teachers of the Ashram presenting the Classical Yoga teachings and featuring leading teachers in the field of Holistic Health and Healing.
Heera Kulkarni shares her vast knowledge to create nutritious and delicious plant-based meals for healing health conditions. She is a certified Dietary & Wellness Coach with training in whole foods low-fat plant-based nutrition. She has used this program personally for the past seven years & was able to reverse her own diabetes. Heera is certified in the Starch Solution dietary coaching program by Dr. John McDougall.
Dr. Sachin Deshmukh offers talks on daily and seasonal routines and healthy lifestyle practices following the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda.
Shree Lata Suresh will present traditional Bharat Natyam dance with her students from the Vishwa Shanti Dance Academy.
Enjoy the pristine natural beauty of the Yoga Farm with its beautiful oak trees, swimming pond, abundant wildlife, lavender fields, walking labyrinth and trails. You are welcome to join with our Vedic priest pandit Bhima Samavedula as he performs daily pujas at the many temples and shrines. The Ashram offers twice daily yoga class, meditation and kirtan, healthy vegetarian meals, and guided walks on the Ashram grounds.
Schedule
Friday, August 30
6 am Satsang: Meditation, Chanting, Talk
8-10 am Yoga class
10 am Brunch
11 am Karma Yoga
2pm Arrival
4-6 pm Yoga class
6 pm Dinner
8 pm Satsang: Welcome with Swami Sitaramananda
Saturday, August 31
6 am Satsang: “Holistic Health” – Swami Sitaramananda
8-10 am Yoga class
10 am Brunch
11 am Karma Yoga
1 pm Healing Plant-based Nutrition with Heera
2:30pm Temple Walk
4-6 pm Yoga class
6 pm Dinner
8 pm Satsang: Bharat Natyam Dance with Shree Lata Suresh
Sunday, September 1
6 am Satsang: “Self-Healing” – Swami Sitaramananda
8-10 am Yoga class
10 am Brunch
11 am Karma Yoga
12 pm Ayurveda Health with Dr. Sachin
2 pm 3 Gunas for Balancing Health – Sw Dharmananda
4 pm Yoga Class
6 pm Dinner
8 pm Satsang: “Ayurveda Health” – Dr. Sachin
Monday, September 2
6 am Satsang: “Stress and Relaxation” – Swami Sitaramananda
8-10 am Yoga class
10 am Brunch
4-6 pm Yoga class
6 pm Dinner
8 pm Satsang
Workshop Details
Did you know that 6 in 10 Americans have a chronic health condition? In this workshop Heera Kulkarni will show you how to improve & even reverse your chronic health condition. Heera will show you how to reduce inflammation & heal from the inside out, the same way she has healed herself.
Why attend this workshop: Heera is a certified Dietary & Wellness Coach with training in whole foods low-fat plant-based nutrition. She has used this program personally for the past seven years & was able to reverse her own diabetes. Heera is certified in the Starch Solution dietary coaching program by Dr. John McDougall.
*She has coached people since 2021. She has helped them lose weight, overcome diabetes, high blood pressure, & other lifestyle conditions. In the last batch one person even got rid of his insulin.
*Heera has cooked Indian food for the past 41 years. She has successfully cooked low-fat whole foods plant-based meals for the past seven years. In this workshop you will learn the basics of why & how to adopt this lifestyle.
*Heera is a professional educator with CA teaching credentials & has a Masters in Education & a Bachelors in Biological Sciences. Teaching is her profession & her passion.
*We will also learn the powerful Dhanvantari Mantra. At the end of the workshop we will recite this mantra at the beautiful Dhanvantari temple on the premises. Did you know that “Bhagwan Dhanwantari” is the God of the Hindu medicine.
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 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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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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Heera Kulkarni
Indian music has been with Heera since she was eight years old. Her mother was a musician and her first Gūrū. She attended University of Delhi for college degrees of Bachelors in Science & Masters in Social Work. After receiving basic training in music at home, she attended Gāndharva Mahāvidyalaya College of Music in New […]
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Shreelata Suresh
Shreelata commenced her training at the age of six under Vyjayantimala Bali, the famous dancer and actress. After her arangetram in 1981, she studied under the illustrious Guru Kalaimamani K. N. Dakshinamurthy Pillai. Presently she is under the tutelage of Guru V. Krishnamoorthi, whose unique and innovative choreography has encouraged her to create a distinct […]
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Dr. Sachin Deshmukh
Dr. Sachin Deshmukh is a distinguished figure in the field of holistic , Mind-Body medicine and Yoga therapy. Trained as a physician in India, he holds degrees in holistic medicine, homeopathy, Ayurveda, and Yoga therapy. His holistic approach to wellness combines the classical teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda, tailoring his methods to the specific needs […]
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