Memorial Day Program: 55th Year Anniversary & Teachers' Reunion
with Acharya Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda, Swami Sivasankariananda, Stephen Longfellow Fiske, Komilla Sutton, Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT (Saraswati Devi), Swami Pranavananda, Pundit Samavedula, Swami Divyananda, Swami Amritananda, Dr. Fred Luskin, Durga Leela, Debashish Banerji, Dr. Ramkumar and Pundit Bhima
May 22 - 29, 2026
FREE STAY – Yoga Farm TTC Graduates stay in tent for free during this 7 days program.
Description
This Memorial Day Weekend we will celebrate our 55th year anniversary (1971 – 2026). We will have satsangs, yoga classes, vegetarian meals, and workshops with swamis and special guests on sharing the teachings. Swami Sitaramananda will deliver lectures. Stephen Longfellow Fiske will offer workshops and a concert. Komilla Sutton will enlighten our path. Silvia Nakkach will melt our hearts. Fred Luskin PhD will stimulate our critical thinking. And Pundit Samavedula will invite the Divine Energy into our Home.
Schedule
Friday, May 22
12-4pm Arrival and Registration
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Swami Sita on peace and peace education
Saturday, May 23
6-7:30am Satsang: Komilla Sutton on Peace according to Jyotish
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – Ashram Peace Procession to all temples and Shrines
2pm – Songs for Peace with Stephen Fiske
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Stephen Fiske Concert
Sunday, May 24
6am Homa Ceremony with Samavedula
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – Mantra Master Class with Pundit Samavedula
2pm – Jyotish for Peace with Komilla Sutton
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Ashram Historical Slideshow
Monday, May 25
6am Satsang: Peace according to Swami Sivananda with Swami Sita
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – TTC Reunion workshop with Swami Sita
2pm – Yoga of Recovery with Durga Leela
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Musical Offering by Silvia Nakkach & Sumeet Banerji
Tuesday, May 26
6am Satsang: Peace of Mind through Yogic techniques with Swami Pranava
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – TTC Reunion workshop with Swami Sita
2pm -Learn to Forgive with Swami Sivasankari
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Yoga of Recovery with Durga Leela
Wednesday, May 27
6am Satsang: Peace of Mind through Yogic techniques with Swami Adi
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – TTC Reunion workshop with Swami Sita
2pm – Kirtan with Swami Amrita
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Learn to Forgive with Fred Luskin
Thursday, May 28
6am Satsang: Learn to Forgive with Fred Luskin
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – TTC Reunion workshop with Swami Sita
2pm – Positive Thinking with Swami Divya
4-6pm Open Yoga Class
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: from Grief to Peace with Swami Sivasankari
Friday, May 29
6am Satsang: SPEED – Sivananda Peace Education with Swami Sita
8-10am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12pm – Conclusion and Wrap-up
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 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 Sivasankariananda
Swami Sivasankariananda is director of the Los Angeles Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center. She completed her TTC at the Yoga Farm in 1997 and ATTC there in 2008. Swamiji has been on yatra in north and south India and Mount Kailas. She loves to teach and is particularly fond of the Bhakti Yoga practices. She took sannyas in […]
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Stephen Longfellow Fiske
Stephen Longfellow Fiske is a musician, author, poet, Interfaith Minister and long-time peace and environmental activist. He is a multi-talented individual whose dedication to peace, humanitarian, environmental and spiritual concerns has always found expression through his artistic pursuits. Since his first album release, Seeds of Peace, in 1980, through his current CD (11th) Flow, Stephen […]
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Komilla Sutton
Komilla is co-founder and Chair of the British Association for Vedic Astrology. She is an internationally-renowned consultant, teacher and lecturer. Indian born, Komilla Sutton is one of the pioneers in making this subject more accessible for Western readers. She is author of The Essentials of Vedic Astrology, Lunar Nodes: Crisis and Redemption, Nakshatras, and Indian Astrology.
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Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT (Saraswati Devi)
Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT (Saraswati Devi), is a Grammy-nominated musician and a renowned vocal artist. She is a former clinical psychologist, an author, a world-wide sound and music educator, and a Nada Yoga scholar and yogini. She is a pioneer in the field of sound and music therapies, and an academic consultant and the creator […]
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Swami Pranavananda
Swami Pranavananda, hails from the USA, and has been a Yoga and Meditation teacher since 1995 in the US and abroad. He teaches mainly the Hatha Yoga and Anatomy sections for the TTC courses. He was the director of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in Los Angeles, CA and San Francisco, CA for a few […]
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Pundit Samavedula
Pundit Samavedula is a 6th generation Sama Veda pandit who was trained in the Vedas beginning at age 7. He attended the Shri Sarva Raya Veda Patha Shala school in South India, and after 12 years of study, received his Master's Degree in Vedic Studies (Ganapati Pandit). Panditji has been coming to the Yoga Farm […]
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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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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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Dr. Fred Luskin
Dr. Luskin holds a Ph.D. in Counseling and Health Psychology from Stanford University. He is Co-Director of the Stanford-Northern Ireland HOPE Project, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on the victims of political violence. He served as Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, the largest […]
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Durga Leela
Durga Leela is founder of Yoga of Recovery, a comprehensive program integrating Ayurveda and Yoga with recovery tools for a holistic mind, body and spirit approach for those affected by addiction and self-destructive behaviors. Yoga of Recovery is currently offered as workshops, retreats and certificate courses. Durga holds the RYT-500 qualification, having completed both the […]
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Debashish Banerji
Debashish Banerji, Ph.D., is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco. From 1991-2006 he served as the President of the East-West Cultural Center in Los Angeles, an institution that introduced Indian philosophy and culture, including the […]
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Dr. Ramkumar
Ramkumar is a student of Ayurveda and other traditional Indian knowledge systems. Over the last 2 decades, he has given talks and conducted workshops in the Americas, Africa, Europe, Australia and many parts of Asia, promoting health, happiness and contentment. Ramkumar is a Founder-Director of Punarnava Ayurveda, an institution committed to “Authentic Ayurveda for Universal […]
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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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