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Labor Day Weekend: Vedantic Self Inquiry for Finding your True Nature

with Swamini Svatmavidyananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda, Pundit Bhima, Swami Amritananda and Swami Divyananda

August 28 - September 1, 2025


Arrival & Departure
Arrival: Check-in time is 2:00pm. We encourage you to arrive by 4:00pm for the Asana class. Dinner is at 6:00pm followed by Satsang at 8:00pm.

Departure: Check-out time is 12:00pm. You are welcome to stay in the ashram for the rest of the afternoon even after checking out of your room.

Location:
Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm

Address
14651 Ballantree Lane
Grass Valley, CA 95949 USA

Contactyogafarmregistration@sivananda.org
(530) 272-9322


What to Bring:
slip on shoes, loose comfortable clothing, writing materials, meditation shawl or blanket, yoga mat, sitting cushion, water bottle, and flashlight. All books and materials are available to order from our online boutique. (we will not have yoga mat and cushions available so please bring your own)

Siva Wellness Center:
Invest in your own well being through an experience that allows you to tune into your body’s innate wisdom and bring you into balance.
Siva Wellness Center

Boutique: All books and materials are available to order from our online boutique.

  • Tent - Bring Your Own – $450.00
  • Om Cabin - Private or book with a friend – $790.00
  • Om Cabin - Double (share with another guest) – $670.00
  • Siva Cabin - Private or book with a friend – $1,030.00
  • Siva Cabin - Double (share with another guest) – $870.00
  • Krishna Cabin - Private or book with a friend – $1,030.00
  • Krishna Cabin, Double (share with another guest) – $870.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Private or book with friends – $1,270.00
  • Deluxe Shanti Cabin - Shared (share with another guest) – $990.00
    • (All prices include $150.00 base amount)

All options include 2 vegetarian meals, 2 yoga classes, and 2 satsangs.

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Description

Join us this Labor Day weekend for a program on Vedantic Self Inquiry.  We will have yoga classses, meditation, nature walks, delicious vegatarian food and lectures with the swamis on Vedantic Self Inquiry.

Thursday 28 August
12-4pm Arrival and Registration
4PM Yoga class
6PM Dinner
7:30PM Satsang with Swamini Swatmavidyananda on Preparing for Moksha: A Prayer of Atonement and Devotion

Friday 29 August
6AM Satsang with Swamini Swatmavidyananda on Preparing for Moksha: A Prayer of Atonement and Devotion
8AM Yoga Class
10AM Brunch
12PM Vedantic lecture with Swamini Swatmavidyananda on Preparing for Moksha: A Prayer of Atonement and Devotion
2PM Labyrinth Walk
4PM Yoga class
6PM Dinner
7:30PM Satsang with Swamini Swatmavidyananda on Preparing for Moksha: A Prayer of Atonement and Devotion

Saturday 30 August
6AM Satsang with Swamini Swatmavidyananda on Preparing for Moksha: A Prayer of Atonement and Devotion
8AM Yoga Class
10AM Brunch
12PM Vedantic lecture with Swamini Swatmavidyananda on Preparing for Moksha: A Prayer of Atonement and Devotion
2PM Vedantic lecture with swami Divyananda on Thought power
4PM Yoga class
6PM Dinner
7:30 satsang meditation chanting lecture with swami Amritananda – Qualities of a person of steady wisdom

Sunday 31 August
6 AM satsang meditation chanting lecture with swami Adiparashaktiannada – Viveka Chudamani
8AM Yoga Class
10AM Brunch
12PM Vedantic lecture, swami Amritananda – Divine qualities
2PM Sacred Temple Tour
4PM Yoga class
6PM Dinner
7:30 satsang meditation chanting lecture with swami Divyananda – Self love and devotion to the supreme

Monday 1 September
6AM Guru puja with Pundit Bhima Samavedula
8AM Yoga Class
10AM Brunch
12 PM check out

About the Teachers

Swamini Svatmavidyananda

Sri Swamini Svatmavidyananda Saraswati, a longtime disciple of Paramapujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati of India, is an accomplished scholar of Vedanta.  For several years, she has led an active satsang community in the United States, serving as the Spiritual Director of Swami Dayananda’s USA center: Arsha Vijnana Gurukulam based in Washington, D.C., and Oregon.  More information […]

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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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Pundit Bhima

Pundit Bhima, originally from South India, joined the Sivananda Yoga Farm in 2023.  He was born and brought up in a Vedic Hindu family. His father was Sri Trinadha Lakshmi Narasimha Murty garu who was the Sri Devi Upasaka (meant to serve or one who serves). He is a traditionally trained priest from the Veda(Yajusha […]

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Swami Amritananda

Swami Amrita is a dedicated yoga teacher and karma yogi from Japan, with over 18 years of yoga practice and more than a decade of teaching experience in Hatha Yoga. She holds the RYT500 and IAYT-ACCREDITED SYHET 800-hour certificates. In 2025, she embraced monastic life in the Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda tradition, fully dedicating […]

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Swami Divyananda

Swami Divyananda is a yoga teacher hailed from Vietnam and sannyasin in the Sivananda tradition. She started practicing yoga at the age of 20 and completed her TTC in 2016, SYHET in 2020, and ATTC in 2022. She has also completed five Sadhana Intensive courses, deepening her practice of pranayama and inner discipline. She served […]

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